ruler of Bengal of undivided India (d. 1757) November 20 – Philip Schuyler, general in the American Revolution, United States Senator from New York, father of Angelica Schuyler Church and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (d. 1804) undated - Johanna Löfblad, Swedish actor and singer (d. 1811) Deaths January 17 – George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, English Royal Navy admiral (b. 1663) January 21 – Bernard Mandeville, Dutch-born English economic philosopher (b. 1670) January 22 – Lovisa von Burghausen, Swedish memoirist (b. 1698) January 25 – Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652) January 27 – Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1668) February 1 – King Augustus II the Strong of Poland (b. 1670) February 2 – Robert Price (judge), British judge and politician (b. 1653) February 16 – Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar, Swedish officer (b. 1683) March 4 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656) April 14 – Ippolito Desideri, Italian tibetologist (b. 1684) April 19 – Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney, mistress of William III of England (b. 1657) April 30 – Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses, 1st Marquis of Abrantes, Portuguese diplomat (b. 1676) May 1 – Nicolas Coustou, French artist (b. 1658) May 3 – Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet, England (b. 1650) May 10 – Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681) May 18 – Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1661) June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672) July 12 – Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, French salon holder (b. 1647) August 16 – Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657) August 24 – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, French artist (b. 1657) September 12 – François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668) October 19 – Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1661) October 25 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667) October 31 – Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, (b. 1676) November 11 – Willem Adriaan van der Stel, Dutch colonial administrator (b. 1664) December 2 – Gerard Hoet, Dutch painter (b. 1648) References