explorer (b. c. 1639) March 4 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668) March 5 – John Holt, English politician (b. 1642) March 14 – Michel Bégon, French ancien regime official (b. 1638) March 28 – Charles Fanshawe, 4th Viscount Fanshawe, English politician (b. 1643) April 7 – Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet of England (b. 1660) April 28 – Thomas Betterton, English actor (b. c. 1635) May 13 – Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (b. 1650) May 29 John Dolben, British politician (b. 1662) Henri Basnage de Beauval, French historian, lexicographer (b. 1657) June 1 – David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642) June 4 – James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute June 7 – Louise de La Vallière, mistress of King Louis XIV of France (b. 1644) July 2 – Domenico Freschi, Italian opera composer, Catholic priest (b. 1634) July 12 – Robert Treat, American colonial leader (b. 1624) July 25 – Gottfried Kirch, German astronomer, first 'Astronomer Royal' in Berlin (b. 1639) September 19 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644) September 22 – Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville (b. 1637) September 24 – Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley, English diplomat (b. 1649) September 26 – Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1627) October 19 – Suzanne Henriette of Lorraine, French noblewoman, Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat (b. 1686) November 3 – Maria de Croll, Swedish vocalist November 21 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer of operas (b. 1637) December 15 – Albert Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (b. 1641) December 18 – Petrus Codde, Dutch cleric, first Old Catholic bishop (b. 1648) date unknown – Anna Maria Thelott, Swedish artist (b. 1683) References