scientist (b. 1647) October 29 – William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (b. 1659) October 30 – Marie of Lorraine, French princess (b. 1674) November 7 – John Kyrle, British philanthropist (b. 1637) November 14 – John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (b. 1660) November 16 – Jack Sheppard, British criminal (executed) (b. 1702) November 18 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685) November 24 – Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1672) November 28 – Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney, British politician (b. 1685) December 27 – Thomas Guy, English philanthropist (b. 1644) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar