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[[File:Europe 1714.png|thumb|300px|[[March 7]]: [[Treaty of Rastatt]] signed with Spain and France losing territory to enlarged Austrian Empire]]
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[[File:Battle of Gangut-Bakua.jpg|thumb|right|[[July 27]]: [[Battle of Gangut]].]]
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== Events ==
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===January–March===
* [[January 21]] – After being tricked into deserting a battle against India's [[Mughal Empire]] by the rebel [[Sayyid brothers]], Prince [[Azz-ud-din Mirza]] is blinded on orders of the Emperor [[Farrukhsiyar]] as punishment.
* [[February 7]] – The [[Siege of Tönning]] (a fortress of the [[Swedish Empire]] and now located in Germany in the state of [[Schleswig-Holstein]]) ends after almost a year, as Danish forces force the surrender of the remaining 1,600 defenders.  The fortress is then leveled by the Danes.
* [[February 28]] – (February 17 old style) Russia's Tsar [[Peter the Great]] issues a decree requiring compulsory education in mathematics for children of government officials and nobility, applying to children between the ages of 10 and 15 years old.<ref>Basil Dmytryshyn, ''Modernization of Russia Under Peter I and Catherine II'' (Wiley, 1974) pp. 10-11</ref>
* [[March 2]] – (February 19 old style) The [[Battle of Napue|Battle of Storkyro]] is fought between troops of the Swedish Empire and the Russian Empire, near what is now the village of Napue in [[Finland]].  The outnumbered Swedish forces, under the command of General [[Carl Gustaf Armfeldt]], suffer 1,600 troops killed in action while the Russians led by General [[Mikhail Golitsyn]] lose 400 men.
* [[March 7]] – The [[Treaty of Rastatt]] is signed between [[Austria]] and [[France]], concluding the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] between them. Austria receives the Spanish territories in Italy (the [[Kingdom of Naples]], [[Duchy of Milan]] and [[Kingdom of Sardinia]]), as well as the [[Spanish Netherlands|Southern Netherlands]]; and from France, [[Freiburg]] and [[Landau]]. The Austrian [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Empire]] reaches its largest territorial extent yet, with [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]] succeeding [[Philip V of Spain]], as ruler in the ceded territories.
===April–June===
* [[April 11]] – France signs five separate treaties— with Great Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia and Savoy— to end hostilities in the War of the Spanish Succession following the negotiations of the [[Peace of Utrecht]].
* [[April 12]] – Italian Jesuit missionary [[Niccolò Gianpriamo]] is dispatched from [[Portugal]] on an evangelical trip to Asia starting with the Portuguese Indian colony of [[Goa]], where he arrives after five months.
* [[May 19]] – [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]], refuses to allow members of the [[House of Hanover]] to settle in Britain during her lifetime.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=208–209|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] leads the first performance of his cantata for Pentecost, [[Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172|''Erschallet, ihr Lieder'', BWV 172]], at the chapel of [[Schloss Weimar]].
* [[June 3]] – The city of [[Kassel]] in [[Germany]] inaugurates the summer tradition of the "water stairs" or "great cascades" (''Grossen Kaskaden'') emptying from the base of the [[Hercules monument (Kassel)|Hercules monument]] down to the Wilhelmshöhe castle.
* [[June 20]] – In France, [[Henri-Charles du Cambout de Coislin]], the Roman Catholic Bishop of Metz, condemns the papal bull ''[[Unigenitus]]'', issued by [[Pope Clement XI]] against the 1671 commentary by [[Pasquier Quesnel]] of the four Gospels and inflaming the [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] controversy.
* [[June 26]] – Spain and the Netherlands sign a peace treaty to end hostilities between those two nations in the War of the Spanish Succession.
===July–September===
* [[July 8]] – [[Longitude prize]]: The [[Parliament of Great Britain]] votes "to offer a reward for such person or persons as shall discover the [[Longitude]]" (£10,000 for any method capable of determining a ship's longitude within 1 degree; £15,000, within 40 minutes, and £20,000 within ½ a degree).<ref>{{cite web|title=Origins of the Longitude Prize|url=https://longitudeprize.org/the-history/|work=Longitude Prize|accessdate=2021-09-29}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] – The [[Imperial Russian Navy]] gains its first important victory against the [[Swedish Navy]] in the [[Battle of Gangut]].
* [[August 1]] – [[George I of Great Britain|Georg Ludwig von Braunschweig-Lüneburg]], Elector of [[Hanover]], becomes King [[George I of Great Britain]] and Ireland, on the death of [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]]. Anne's death brings an end to the reign of the [[House of Stuart]], in that her half-brother [[James Francis Edward Stuart]], the eldest son of [[James II of England]], has been ineligible for the British throne based on the [[Act of Settlement 1701]] had barred members of the [[Roman Catholic church]] from becoming monarchs. George of Hanover, as great-grandson of James I of England and a second cousin to Anne, is deemed the eldest living Protestant descendant of James I.
* [[September 11]] – [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: [[Barcelona]] is taken after a [[Siege of Barcelona (1713–14)|year's siege]], and [[Catalonia]] surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies.
* [[September 18]] – [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], the new King of Great Britain and Ireland, arrives in Britain for the first time in his life, after having departed [[Hannover]] and sailing from the Netherlands.<ref name=Weir>{{cite book|authorlink=Alison Weir|first=Alison|last=Weir|title=Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy|publisher=Random House|year=1996|pages=272–276}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] – [[The Great Hatred]]: the [[Cossacks]] of the [[Russian Empire]] kill about 800 people overnight on the Finnish island of [[Hailuoto]].<ref>{{cite news | last = Kaitasuo | first = Pia | title = Pietari Suuren synkkä tuhon kylvö | work = [[Kaleva (newspaper)|Kaleva]] | date = 2015-08-15 | number = 221 | page =  | pages = 34–35 | location = Oulu | publisher = Kaleva Oy | issn= 0356-1356 | language = fi}}</ref>
===October–December===
* [[October 20]] – The [[coronation]] of [[George I of Great Britain and Ireland]] takes place in [[Westminster Abbey]], a little less than three months after George became the new British monarch.<ref name=Weir/>
* [[October 24]] – Four Dutch investors, led by brothers Nicolaas and Hendrik van Hoorn, purchase the South American colony of [[Berbice]] from French mercenary [[Jacques Cassard]], who had captured the colony from the Van Peere family.<ref>J. J. Hartsinck, ''Beschryving van Guiana, of de wilde kust in Zuid-America'' (Gerrit Tielenburg, 1770)</ref>  A century later, in 1815, the land is ceded to Great Britain and later merged with neighboring colonies to form what is now [[Guyana]].
* [[November 30]] – King [[Philip V of Spain]] issues a decree reorganizing the [[Spanish government]] to create four ministries, with the Secretary of State being the chief minister, predecessor to the office of [[Prime Minister of Spain]].  [[José de Grimaldo]] becomes the first  person to have the chief ministry.
* [[December 9]] – [[Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)]]: The [[Ottoman Empire]] declares war on the [[Republic of Venice]].
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* [[Archbishop Tenison's Church of England High School, Croydon|Archbishop Tenison's School]], the world's earliest surviving mixed gender school, is established by [[Thomas Tenison]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], in [[Croydon]], south of London, England.
* [[Louis Juchereau de St. Denis]] establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste, at the site of present day [[Natchitoches, Louisiana]] (the first permanent European settlement in the [[Louisiana Territory]], after [[Biloxi]] ([[1699]]) and [[Mobile, Alabama]] ([[1702]]) were separated).
* [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]], [[University of Oxford]] is founded (formerly [[Gloucester College]], closed during the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]]).
* [[Stockholm County]] is founded.
* The river [[Kander (Switzerland)]] is redirected into [[Lake Thun]].
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== Births ==
[[File:Joseph Siffred Duplessis - Christoph Willibald Gluck - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Christoph Willibald Gluck]]]]
[[File:Pyinoolwin -- DSA Alaungpaya.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Alaungpaya]]]]
[[File:Hedwig Taube von Hessenstein c 1740 by Lorens Pasch the Elder.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Hedvig Taube]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Kristijonas Donelaitis]], Prussian-Lithuanian Lutheran pastor, poet, author of ''The Seasons'' (d. [[1780]])
** [[Giovanni Battista Mancini]], Italian soprano castrato, voice teacher and author of books on singing (d. [[1800]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Johann Adam Hiller|title=Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keomPQV-Q8gC&pg=PA170|date=12 April 2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-42898-9|pages=170}}</ref>
* [[January 6]]
** [[John Christopher Hartwick]], Lutheran minister in Colonial America, founder of Hartwick College (d. [[1796]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Town of Hartwick Historical Society|title=Hartwick, the Heart of Otsego County, NY.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DKXyRolJr68C&pg=PA12|year=2002|publisher=Syllables Press|isbn=978-0-9709433-0-9|pages=12}}</ref>
** [[Percivall Pott]], English surgeon (d. [[1788]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Elisabeth Stierncrona]], Swedish noble (d. [[1769]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=20159|title=Elisabeth Stierncrona|website=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon|language=sv|access-date=March 26, 2021}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – [[Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun]], German scientist (d. [[1787]])
* [[January 16]]
** [[Francis V de Beauharnais]], French nobleman, soldier, politician, colonial governor and admiral (d. [[1800]])
** [[Carl Jesper Benzelius]], Swedish bishop (d. [[1793]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Hugh Farmer]], British theologian (d. [[1787]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Anna Morandi Manzolini]], internationally known Italian anatomist and anatomical wax modeler (d. [[1774]])
* [[January 24]] – [[Henri Joseph Bouchard d'Esparbès de Lussan d'Aubeterre]], Marshal of France (d. [[1788]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Pigalle]], French sculptor (d. [[1785]])
* [[February 1]]
** [[Nicolaus Christian Friis]], Norwegian priest and writer (d. [[1777]])
** [[Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney]] of Ireland (d. [[1791]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Gottfried August Homilius]], German composer, cantor and organist (d. [[1785]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Paul Held|title=Chorale Preludes Composed in the Eighteenth Century for Organ and a Solo Instrument|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FcgXAQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=University of Southern California|page=84}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] – [[Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch]], German botanist (d. [[1786]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein]], German-Prussian diplomat and later Prime Minister of Prussia (d. [[1800]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Sebastian Sailer]], German Premonstratensian preacher, writer (d. [[1777]])
* [[February 14]] – [[William Vane, 2nd Viscount Vane]] of Ireland (d. [[1789]])
* [[February 18]] – [[John Howe, 2nd Baron Chedworth]] of England, eldest son of John Howe (d. [[1762]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[Louis-Georges de Bréquigny]], French scholar (d. [[1795]])
** [[Sarah Osborn]], American writer (d. [[1796]])
* [[February 25]]
** [[René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou]], [[Chancellor of France]] (d. [[1792]])
** [[Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet]], Royal Navy vice admiral (d. [[1782]])
* [[February 26]] – [[James Hervey]], English clergyman and writer (d. [[1758]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Gioacchino Conti]], Italian opera singer (d. [[1761]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Menshikov]], Russian army officer (d. [[1764]])
* [[March 2]] – [[John Hamilton (Royal Navy officer)|John Hamilton]], Royal Navy officer (d. [[1755]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre]], French painter (d. [[1789]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort]], German nobleman, head of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (d. [[1789]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]], German Classical composer (d. [[1788]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Martin Petzoldt|title=Bach's children in Leipzig: documents in Johann Sebastian Bach's own hand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uWL0AAAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Evangelische Verlagsanstalt|isbn=978-3-374-02505-3|page=26}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] – [[Cornelis Elout]], Dutch regent (d. [[1779]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Maximilian Reichsgraf von Hamilton]], German-born Czech Catholic bishop (d. [[1776]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Aymar Joseph de Roquefeuil et du Bousquet]], French admiral (d. [[1782]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden]], British judge (d. [[1794]])
* [[March 25]]
** [[Friedrich Christian Glume]], German artist (d. [[1752]])
** [[Matthew Griswold (governor)]], 17th Governor of Connecticut (1784–1786) (d. [[1799]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Francesco Antonio Zaccaria]], Italian theologian (d. [[1795]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Mahadhammaraza Dipadi]], last Toungoo Dynasty king of Burma (Myanmar) (1733–1752) (d. [[1754]])
* [[April 1]] – [[Jean-François de Neufforge]], Flemish architect and engraver (d. [[1791]])
* [[April 7]] – [[John Elwes (politician)]], British politician (d. [[1789]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Adam Gib]], Scottish religious leader (d. [[1788]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Claude Yvon]], French encyclopedist (d. [[1791]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Pedro António Avondano]], Italian composer (d. [[1782]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Jacques-Nompar III de Caumont, duc de La Force]], French nobleman (d. [[1755]])
* [[April 25]] – [[Emer de Vattel]], Swiss philosopher (d. [[1767]])
* [[May 6]]
** [[Anton Raaff]], German opera tenor (d. [[1797]])
** [[James Townley]], British dramatist (d. [[1778]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Sophie Charlotte Ackermann]], German actress from Berlin (d. [[1792]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Johan Daniel Berlin]], Norwegian composer and organist (d. [[1787]])
* [[May 14]] – [[William Whitmore (British Army officer)|William Whitmore]], British general (d. [[1771]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine]], French royal (d. [[1773]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst]], British lawyer and politician (d. [[1794]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Joseph I of Portugal]], Prince of Brazil (d. [[1777]])
* [[June 17]] – [[César-François Cassini de Thury]], French astronomer and cartographer (d. [[1784]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Giovanni Sarnelli]], Italian painter (d. [[1793]])
* [[July 1]] – [[Michael Lally (brigadier-general)]], Irish-born French brigadier-general (d. [[1773]])
* [[July 2]] – [[Christoph Willibald Gluck]], German composer (d. [[1787]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Collected correspondence and papers of Christoph Willibald Gluck|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dTdSAQAAIAAJ|year=1962|page=1}}</ref>
* [[July 8]]
** [[Friedrich Gottfried Abel]], German physician (d. [[1794]])
** [[Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn]], Dutch administrator of the Cape Colony (d. [[1773]])
* [[July 12]] – [[Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov]], Russian noble, politician (d. [[1767]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Marc René, marquis de Montalembert]], French military engineer and writer (d. [[1800]])
* [[July 17]]
** [[Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten]], German philosopher (d. [[1762]])
** [[John Forbes (Royal Navy officer)]], British admiral of the fleet (d. [[1796]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Grand Duchess Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia (1714–1728)]], Russian grand duchess (d. [[1728]])
* [[August 1]]
** [[Edward Penny]], British painter (d. [[1791]])
** [[Richard Wilson (painter)]], Welsh landscape painter (d. [[1782]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Claude Joseph Vernet]], French painter (d. [[1789]])<ref>{{cite book|title=A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures and Sculptures in the Norwegian National Gallery ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hfhYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA68|year=1885|publisher=Norwegian National Gallery|pages=68}}</ref>
* [[August 15]] – [[Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope]] of Great Britain  (d. [[1786]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg]], German noble (d. [[1741]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Hans Jacob Scheel]], Norwegian general (d. [[1774]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick]], Russian general (d. [[1774]])
** [[Jean-Baptiste Descamps]], Flemish painter and art historian (d. [[1791]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia]], Prussian princess (d. [[1784]])
* [[September 1]] – [[Samuel Martin (Secretary to the Treasury)]], British politician (d. [[1788]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Niccolò Jommelli]], Italian composer (d. [[1774]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Church Music of Davide Perez and Niccolò Jommelli| date=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMTFs6GXvlUC&pg=PA11|publisher=Mauricio Dottori|isbn=978-85-98826-19-6|pages=11}}</ref>
* [[September 17]] – [[Gottlieb Rabener]], German writer of prose satires (d. [[1771]])
* [[September 19]] – [[Charles Humphreys]], miller and statesman from Haverford Township, Pennsylvania (d. [[1786]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Eugene Jean, Count of Soissons]], Prince of Savoy (d. [[1734]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Alaungpaya]], King of Burma (d. [[1760]])
* [[September 29]]
** [[Petrus Albertus van der Parra]], Dutch colonial governor (d. [[1775]])
** [[Johann Joachim Schwabe]], German poet (d. [[1784]])
* [[September 30]] – [[Étienne Bonnot de Condillac]], French academic (d. [[1780]])
* [[October 1]]
** [[Georg David Anthon]], Danish architect (d. [[1781]])
** [[António of Braganza, Child of Palhavã]], Portuguese nobleman (d. [[1800]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Joseph Spencer]], American general (d. [[1789]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Christoph Anton Migazzi]], Austrian Catholic bishop (d. [[1803]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Giovanni Arduino (geologist)]], Italian geologist (d. [[1795]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Joseph von Petrasch]], German philologist (d. [[1772]])
* [[October 25]] – [[James Burnett, Lord Monboddo]], Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosopher (d. [[1799]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Princess Marie Victoire d'Arenberg]], Margravine of Baden-Baden as consort of Augustus George (d. [[1793]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Fernando de Silva, 12th Duke of Alba]], Spanish duke (d. [[1776]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Hedvig Taube]], Swedish courtier (d. [[1744]])
* [[November 1]] – [[Johann Joachim Spalding]], German theologian (d. [[1804]])
* [[November 2]] – [[Camillo Almici]], Italian priest (d. [[1779]])
* [[November 3]] – [[Anica Bošković]], Ragusan writer (d. [[1804]])
* [[November 4]] – [[John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow]], Scottish nobleman (d. [[1775]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Mathieu Tillet]], French botanist (d. [[1791]])
* [[November 18]] – [[William Shenstone]], English poet and landscape gardener (d. [[1763]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Shenstone|title=The Poetical Works ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PoVKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR6|year=1863|publisher=James Nichols|pages=6}}</ref>
* [[November 24]] – [[Thomas Zebrowski]], Lithuanian Jesuit scientist (d. [[1758]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Pierre-François Brice]], French artist (d. [[1794]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Jean Philippe Goujon de Grondel]], French general (d. [[1807]])
* [[December 1]] – [[Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye]], French-Canadian explorer (d. [[1755]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Edward Pickard]], British minister (d. [[1778]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Israel Acrelius]], Swedish missionary and clergyman (d. [[1800]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Leonard Lispenard]], American politician (d. [[1790]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Étienne Mignot de Montigny]], French engineer, geographer (d. [[1782]])
* [[December 16]] – [[George Whitefield]], English Anglican priest (d. [[1770]])
* [[December 18]]
** [[Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans]], French princess (d. [[1734]])
** [[Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy]], Hungarian prince (d. [[1790]])
* [[December 19]] – [[John Winthrop (educator)]], 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College (d. [[1779]])
* [[December 21]]
** [[John Bradstreet]], British Army officer during King George's War (d. [[1774]])
** [[Paschen von Cossel]], German lawyer (d. [[1805]])
* [[December 23]]
** [[Ranieri de' Calzabigi]], Italian poet and librettist (d. [[1795]])
** [[William Howard, Viscount Andover]], British MP (d. [[1756]])
* [[December 31]]
** [[Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly]], French astronomer (d. [[1769]])
** [[Arima Yoriyuki]], Japanese daimyō (d. [[1783]])
== Deaths ==
[[File:Prince Mamia II Gurieli.jpg|thumb|right|110px|Prince [[Mamia III Gurieli]]]]
[[File:Eugen Alexander von Thurn und Taxis.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Eugen Alexander Franz, 1st Prince of Thurn and Taxis|Eugen Alexander Franz]]]]
[[File:Christoph Bernhard Francke - Herzog Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig (1633-1714).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]]]]
[[File:Portrait painting of Charles of France, Duke of Berry (1686-1714) by Nicolas de Largillière.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles, Duke of Berry (1686-1714)|Charles, Duke of Berry]]]]
[[File:Dahl, Michael - Queen Anne - NPG 6187.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]]]]
[[File:Christoffel_Pierson_door_Arnoud_van_Halen.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Christoffel Pierson]]]]
[[File:Infante D. Pedro, 16.º Duque de Bragança & Infanta D. Maria Bárbara, 15.ª Duquesa de Bragança - Domenico Duprà.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Pedro, Prince of Brazil]]]]
* [[January 4]] – [[Atto Melani]], Italian opera singer (b. [[1626]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Mamia III Gurieli]], Prince of Guria
* [[January 10]] – [[Constantin Ranst de Jonge]], son of Hieronimus Rans(t) (1607–1660) (b. [[1635]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo]], Royal Librarian of King Felipe V of Spain (b. [[1662]])
* [[February 2]] – [[John Sharp (bishop)|John Sharp]], English Archbishop of Yorkshire (b. [[1643]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Eugen Alexander Franz, 1st Prince of Thurn and Taxis]] (b. [[1652]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Edmund Andros]], English governor in North America (b. [[1637]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Hans Carl von Carlowitz]], German forester (b. [[1645]])
* [[March 13]] – [[John Talbot of Lacock]], British politician and general (b. [[1630]])
* [[March 27]]
** [[Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel]], Queen Consort of Denmark (1670–1699) (b. [[1650]])
** [[Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]] (b. [[1633]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Samuel Carpenter]], Deputy Governor of colonial Pennsylvania (b. [[1649]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Esther Liebmann]], German banker (b. [[1649]])
* [[April 17]]
** [[Philipp Heinrich Erlebach]], German composer (b. [[1657]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul E. Eisler|title=World Chronology of Music History: 1594-1684|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15IzAQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Oceana Publications|isbn=978-0-379-16082-6|page=363}}</ref>
** [[Haquin Spegel]], Swedish bishop (b. [[1645]])
* [[May 5]] – [[Charles, Duke of Berry (1686–1714)|Charles, Duke of Berry]], grandson of Louis XIV of France (b. [[1686]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Roger Elliott (governor)|Roger Elliott]], British general and Governor of Gibraltar (b. c. [[1665]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Ivan Botsis]], Russian admiral of Greek origin (unknown birth date)
* [[May 24]] – [[Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort]] (b. [[1684]])
* [[May 27]] – [[George Saunderson, 5th Viscount Castleton]], English Member of Parliament  (b. [[1631]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Gottfried Arnold]], German church historian (b. [[1666]])
* [[June 8]] – Electress [[Sophia of Hanover]], heir to the throne of Great Britain (b. [[1630]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Matthew Henry]], English non-conformist minister (b. [[1662]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Daniel Papebroch]], Flemish Jesuit hagiographer (b. [[1628]])
* [[July 4]] – [[Antonio Magliabechi]], Italian librarian (b. [[1633]])
* [[August 1]] – [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]] (b. [[1665]])<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC - History - Anne |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/anne.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[August 11]] – [[Christoffel Pierson]], Dutch painter (b. [[1631]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Constantin Brâncoveanu]], Prince of Wallachia (b. [[1654]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Edward Fowler (bishop)|Edward Fowler]], English Bishop of Gloucester (b. [[1632]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Anna Waser]], Swiss painter (b. [[1678]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Thomas Britton]], English concert promoter (b. [[1644]])
* [[October]] – [[Raja Sitaram Ray]], autonomous king, vassal of the Mughal Empire (b. [[1658]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Jeanne Le Ber]], religious recluse in New France (b. [[1662]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Kaibara Ekiken]], Japanese philosopher (b. [[1630]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert]], French economist (b. [[1646]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Sébastien Leclerc (1637–1714)|Sébastien Leclerc]], French painter (b. [[1637]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Pedro, Prince of Brazil]], second child of John V of Portugal and Maria Ana of Austria (b. [[1712]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Bernardino Ramazzini]], Italian physician (b. [[1633]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Charles Davenant]], English economist, politician and pamphleteer (b. [[1656]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Philip H. Highfill|author2=Kalman A. Burnim|author3=Edward A. Langhans|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5HgNEf-oSYC&pg=PA166|year=1975|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-0693-0|pages=166}}</ref>
* [[November 8]] – [[Filippo II Colonna]], Italian noble (b. [[1663]])
* [[November 29]] – [[Jerolim Kavanjin]], Croatian poet (b. [[1641]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Anthony Günther, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst]] (b. [[1653]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Charles Churchill (British Army general)|Charles Churchill]], British general (b. [[1656]])
* [[December 30]] – [[François Adhémar de Monteil, Comte de Grignan]], French aristocrat (b. [[1632]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Julianna Géczy]], Hungarian heroine  (b. [[1680]])
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