Deaths
- 6 January - Richard Hoare, goldsmith and banker (born 1648)
- 1 February - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, politician (born 1660)
- 18 February - Pierre Antoine Motteux, dramatist (born 1663, France)
- 30 July - William Penn, Quaker and founder of the Pennsylvania colony (born 1644)
- 22 November - Blackbeard, pirate (born c.1680)
- 6 December - Nicholas Rowe, poet and dramatist (born 1674)
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