- Jan 23 Thomas Bullis, English composer, dies at 80 (buried)
- Apr 30 Simon de Vries, book seller/writer (Unequal), dies
- May 6 François de Laval, French clergyman, 1st Roman Catholic bishop of Québec, and saint, dies at 85
- May 11 Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect, dies at 62
- May 12 Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
- May 27 Jacques Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 51
- Jun 15 Romeyn de Hooghe, Dutch painter and goldsmith, buried at 62
- Jul 1 Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
- Jul 12 William of Nassau de Zuylenstein, Earl of Rochford, Dutch soldier and diplomat, dies
- Aug 1 Edward Tyson, English physician and father of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy), dies at 57
- Aug 4 Vincenzo De Grandis, Italian composer, and priest, dies at 77
- Sep 3 Christian Liebe, German composer, dies at 53
- Sep 6 Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
- Sep 7 Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (1706-08), stabbed to death by courtiers at 24
- Oct 1 John Blow, English baroque composer (Venus & Adonis), dies at 59
- Oct 2 Anne Jules de Noailles, French general under Louis XIV (marshal of France), dies at 58
- Oct 7 Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism, founder and General of Khalsa Army, social reformist and poet, dies following an assassination attempt at 41
- Oct 10 David Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (Astronomiae, physicae & geometricae elementa), dies at 49
- Oct 11 Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (Tschirnhaus transformation), dies at 57
- Oct 13 Henry van Nassau, mister of Ouwerkerk and fieldmarshal, dies at 67
- Oct 18 Henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67
- Oct 22 Herman Witsius [Wits], Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 72
- Oct 24 Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
- Oct 28 Prince George of Denmark, Prince Consort of Anne of England, dies at 55
- Nov 3 Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau and daughter of Frederick Henry Prince of Orange, dies at 71
- Nov 7 Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter and cartoonist, dies at 76
- Dec 20 Willem van Bemmel, Dutch painter and etcher, dies at 78
- Dec 22 Hedvig Sophia, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, dies at 27
- Dec 28 Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist, dies at 52