Deaths
- February 12 – Agostino Steffani, composer and diplomat (born 1653)
- August 15 – Marin Marais, composer and bass-viol player (born 1656)
- October 8 – Anne Danican Philidor, composer and founder of the Concert Spirituel (born 1681)
- November 19 – Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, employer of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1694) (smallpox)
- probable – Gaetano Greco, composer (born c. 1657)
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