Melchior Dinglinger, German goldsmith (b. 1664) March 8 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688) March 9 – Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnell, English-born courtier and vicereine of Ireland (b. c. 1649) March 12 – Ernest August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1660) March 23 – Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1662) April 24 – Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. c. 1660) April 28 Johann Theodor Jablonski, German lexicographer (b. 1654) James Olmsted, Connecticut politician (b. 1645) May 1 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677) May 11 – Mary Astell, English feminist writer (b. 1666) May 17 – Samuel Bradford, English churchman, Whig politician (b. 1652) June 20 – Ned Ward, English writer, publican (b. 1667) July 18 – Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1653) August 27 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, Russian Tsarina, divorced spouse of Peter the Great of Russia (b. 1669) December 17 – George Lockhart, Scottish writer, spy and politician, killed in duel (b. 1673) December 20 – Chhatrasal, Maharaja of Madhya Pradesh (b. 1649) December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (b. 1672) December 29 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685) References