Deaths
- January 6 - Jean-Baptiste Labat, polymath (born 1663)
- March - Margrethe Lasson, Danish novelist (born 1659)
- April 25 - James Laderchi, ecclesiastical historian
- June 5 - Isaac de Beausobre, theologian
- July 8 - Jean-Pierre Nicéron, lexicographer
- September 4 - George Lillo, playwright (born 1691)
- September 23 - Herman Boerhaave, humanist writer
- November 10 - John Asgill, pamphleteer (born 1659)
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