actress, writer (b. 1693) March 1 – Antonio Bernacchi, Italian opera singer (b. 1685) April 4 – Marie Sophie de Courcillon, French noblewoman and Duchess of Rohan-Rohan, Princess of Soubise by marriage (b. 1713) April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (b. 1661) April 18 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677) July 1 – Giambattista Nolli, Italian architect (b. 1701) July 24 – George Vertue, English engraver, antiquary (b. 1684) September 8 – Jonathan Nichols, Jr., Rhode Island colonial deputy governor (b. 1712) September 22 – Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (b. 1688) October 13 – John Henley, English minister (b. 1692) October 15 – William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston, Irish noble (b. 1684) October 26 – Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, governor of New France (b. 1693) October 28 – Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (b. 1709) December 8 – William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English statesman, diplomat (b. c. 1690) December 11 – Maria Amalia, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1701) date unknown Bernard Accama, Dutch painter (b. 1697) Frehat Bat Avraham, Jewish Poet William Beverley, American legislator, civil servant, planter, and landowner (b. 1696) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar