- Jan 3 Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer, dies at 85
- Jan 7 Anne Sophie Reventlow, Queen of Denmark and Norway (1721-30), dies at 49
- Jan 29 Andre Hercule Fleury, French cardinal (1726-43), dies
- Feb 1 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian Baroque composer, dies at 85
- Feb 7 Lodovico Giustini, Italian composer, dies at 57
- Feb 18 Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
- Mar 9 Jean-Baptiste Lully fils, French musician and son of Jean-Baptiste Lully, dies at 77
- Apr 4 Daniel Neal, English historian, dies at 64
- Apr 16 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch jurist who helped develop international law along positivist lines, dies at 69
- Apr 29 Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
- Apr 30 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas), dies at 79
- May 11 Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker and son of Antonius, dies at 70
- Jun 25 Václav Matyáš Gurecký, Bohemian composer dies at 37
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Jul 2 Prime Minister of Great Britain (Whig: 1742-43) statesman who served in government from 1715 until his death, dies at about 70
- Aug 1 Richard Savage, English poet and playwright, dies at about 46
- Aug 5 John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)
- Sep 14 Johann Michael Müller, German organist and composer, dies at 59
- Sep 14 Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
- Sep 21 Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
- Oct 4 John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll and field marshal (Union of 1707), dies at 64
- Nov 5 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, German choirmaster and composer, dies at 44
- Dec 27 Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter, dies at 84