American (Lenape) leader (d. 1778) Deaths January 1 Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician (b. 1647) Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (b. 1652) January 7 – Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar and manuscript collector (b. 1663) January 18 – Antonio Vallisneri, Italian scientist (b. 1661) January 30 – Emperor Peter II of Russia (b. 1715) February 9 – Johann Georg von Eckhart, German historian (b. 1664) February 12 – Luca Carlevarijs, Italian painter (b. 1663) February 21 – Pope Benedict XIII, Italian pontiff (b. 1649) March 20 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692) March 22 – Benedetto Pamphili, Italian cardinal, patron of the arts, composer and librettist (b. 1653) March 23 – Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1654) May 13 – Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet, English landowner and Member of Parliament (b. 1658) May 30 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648) June 6 – Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France in the reign of Louis XIV and Louis XV (b. 1646) June 18 – Yinxiang, Qing dynasty prince (b. 1686) June 19 – Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, English judge and politician (b. 1658) June 21 – Sarah Basset, Bermudian slave, origin of legend June 28 – Joachim Bouvet, French Jesuit active in China (b. 1656) July 7 – Olivier Levasseur, French pirate July 9 – Issachar Berend Lehmann, German-Jewish banker, Court Jew in Hanover (b. 1661) July 18 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, French soldier (b. 1644) August 10 – Sébastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist (b. 1655) August 12 – Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, German princess (b. 1652) August 19 – James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, Scottish politician (b. 1664) September 9 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, English courtier (b. 1662) September 10 – Guichard Joseph Duverney, French anatomist (b. 1648) September 14 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish writer (b. 1659) September 27 – Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688) October 12 – Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671) October 16 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658) October 23 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683) November 1 – Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Italian soldier and naturalist (b. 1658) November 21 – François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645) December 31 – Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (b. 1651)