Deaths
- February 20 - Frances Norton, Lady Norton, religious poet and prose writer (born c.1644)
- April 21 - Daniel Defoe (born c.1660)
- May 11 - Mary Astell, English feminist (born 1666)
- June 20 - Ned Ward, wit and essayist (born c.1660)
- December 26 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French dramatist (born 1672)
- date unknown - Mohammed ibn Zakri al-Fasi, Moroccan poet, mystic, grammarian and theologian (date of birth unknown)
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