Deaths
- January 6 - John Dennis, dramatist and critic (born 1658)
- February 24 - Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, writer of fairy tales (born 1664)
- March 1 - Roger North (17th century), biographer (born 1653)
- April 25 - Johann Conrad Dippel, theologian (born 1673)
- May - Richard Cantillon, economic theorist (born 1680)
- September 17 - Thomas Fuller, collector of proverbs (born 1654)
- October - Thomas Lloyd, lexicographer (born c.1673)
- October 18 - James Moore Smythe, dramatist (born 1702)
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
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