Famous Deaths in 1701

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  • Jan 1 Pietro Sanmartini, Italian composer, dies at 64
  • Jan 3 Prince Louis I of Monaco (b. 1642)
  • Jan 4 Ernst R Tarhemberg, Austrian field marshal, dies at 62
  • Jan 14 Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord, dies at 72
  • Feb 15 Adam Drese, German composer, dies at 80
  • Mar 10 Johann Schelle, German composer, dies at 52
  • Mar 15 Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer and poet, dies at 76
  • Mar 27 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, count of Tourville/Fr admiral, dies at 58
  • Mar 28 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75
  • Apr 4 Joseph Haines, entertainer and author
  • Apr 21 Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (daimyō), dies at 33

Person of interestWilliam Kidd

May 23 William Kidd, Scottish pirate legend, hanged at London's execution Dock at about 56

Pirate Legend William Kidd
Pirate Legend
William Kidd
  • Jun 2 Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
  • Jul 7 William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
  • Aug 20 Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
  • Aug 22 John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman, dies at 72
  • Sep 15 Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
  • Sep 16 James II of England and James VII of Scotland [Stuart], King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1685-88), dies at 68
  • Oct 3 Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
  • Oct 13 Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer, dies at 47
  • Nov 5 Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (bc. 1659)