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1716 deaths

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)

Louis de Montfort

French Catholic saint, priest, and confessor

Engelbert Kaempfer

German botanist (1651–1716)

English mathematician

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine

German nobleman (1658–1716)

Tokugawa Ietsugu

The seventh shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1709-1716)

Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien

queen of Poland (1641-1716)

Japanese painter, craftsman (1658-1716)

Anthim the Iberian

Eastern Orthodox theologian

William Wycherley

English dramatist of the Restoration period

Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha

Ottoman Turkish general and Grand Vizier (1667-1716)

Veer Banda Bairagi

Great military commander (1670-1716)

Giovanni Battista Bassani

Italian composer, violinist and organist

Charles de La Fosse

French painter (1636-1716)

Marfa Apraksina

Russian tsarina

French mathematician and founder of the science of acoustics (1653–1716)

Natalya Alexeevna of Russia

Russian princess

Henriette-Julie de Murat

John Somers, 1st Baron Somers

George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland

British Army general

François Louis Rousselet de Châteaurenault

Frederick Augustus, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt

Duke of Württemberg (1654-1716)

Swedish statesman (1647-1716)

Ștefan Cantacuzino

Prince of Wallachia

Francis de Geronimo

Jesuit priest and missionary

Jakob Gronovius

Dutch classical scholar (1645–1716)

Ottoman historian and poet

Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington

Royal Navy admiral (c. 1648-1716)

Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton

Scottish peeress

Anton Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt

Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt (1653-1716)

Juan Domingo Méndez de Haro y Fernández de Córdoba

Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands

Christian Friedrich Witt

German composer, music editor and teacher

Johann Aegidius Bach

German organist, father of Johann Bernhard Bach

Anton Egon, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg

Princely Landgrave of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg and Governor of the Electorate of Saxony

George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon

Chakdor Namgyal

3rd chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim

Akaba of Dahomey

king of Dahomey

French mathematician (1666–1716)

Christian Knaut

German botanist (1656-1716)

German composer and violinist (1646–1716)

Andrew Fletcher

Scottish politician and noble

Swedish noble 1644–1716

Yostos (), throne name Tsehay Sagad (, died ), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 14 October 1711 to 19 February 1716, and a member of Solomonic dynasty. After the death of Tewoflos, the nobles chose one of their own as nəgusä nägäst to avoid a cycle of vengeance. Yostos, facing challenges to his authority, remained in Gondar throughout his reign, only venturing out for hunting.

Gaetano Veneziano

Italian composer

French architect (1639–1716)

Italian painter (1649-1716)

Anne Churchill, Countess of Sunderland

British aristocrat, third daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

Philippe Caffieri

French artist (1634–1716)

Francisco Castillo Fajardo, Marquis of Villadarias

Spanish general

Ann Putnam, Jr.

witness in the Salem Witch Trials (1679–1716)

Justus van Huysum

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1659-1716)

Ramchandra Pant Amatya

Prince Franz Ernst of Hesse-Darmstadt

German aristocrat

Carl Ewald von Rönne

Baltic German military personnel (1663-1716)

Petronella Oortman

Dutch art collector

Jacques Savary des Brûlons

French Inspector General of the Manufactures

Chinese scholar and philologist (1623-1716)

James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth

Scottish politician and Jacobite

Nicolas Auguste de La Baume

French noble who was a Marshal of France under Louis XIV

Sebastián Durón

Spanish composer (1660-1716)