Deaths
- January 6 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese author (born c.1654)
- February 12 - Elkanah Settle, dramatist (born 1648)
- October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)
- date unknown
- Charles Gildon, critic and dramatist (born c.1665)
- Pierre Hellies - Provençal poet
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