- Feb 23 Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India, dies at 36
- Feb 25 Giovanni Maria Casini, Italian composer, dies at 66
- Mar 7 Steven Jacobsz Vennekool, Amsterdam architect, buried
- Apr 7 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest and saint of the Catholic Church, dies at 67
- Apr 15 Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France, dies at 83
- Apr 15 Johann Friedrich Treiber, German historian & composer, dies at 76
- Apr 21 Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
- May 21 Pierre Poiret, French mystic, dies at 73
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Jun 17 English essayist, playwright (Cato, a Tragedy), poet and Whig politician who co-founded "The Spectator" magazine, dies at 47
- Jul 5 Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general, dies at 78
- Jul 26 Johann Georg Christian Störl, German organist, kappelmeister, and composer, dies at 43
- Aug 8 Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter, dies at 51
- Aug 19 Karl H. Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52
- Sep 7 John Harris, English writer (Lexicon Technicum, first English Encyclopedia) (b. c. 1666)
- Sep 19 Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant (Dean of Brussels Guild accessed of involvement in uprising), executed at 59
- Sep 19 Jan Weenix, Dutch painter, buried
- Sep 19 Joachim Tielke, German violin maker, dies at 77
- Sep 21 Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer dies at 72
- Sep 27 George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
- Oct 14 Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter and writer, dies at 59
- Nov 8 Michel Rolle, French mathematician (Rolle's theorem), dies at 67
- Nov 19 Jean Deutz, merchant and Amsterdam regent, dies at 64
- Nov 26 John Hudson, British classical scholar (b. 1662)
- Dec 2 Pasquier Quesnel, French theologist (La Foi), dies at 85
- Dec 16 Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, Dutch theologist (anti-jansenism), dies at 78
John Flamsteed (1646-1719)
Dec 31 English astronomer and 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73
