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1718 deaths

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Carl XII of Sweden

The fifth and last emperor of Sweden (1697–1718)

English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

Edward Teach (or Thatch; – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateering ships during Queen Anne's War before he settled on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their numbers were boosted by the addition to

Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia

Russian Tsarevich (1690-1718)

Queen consort of England (1685-1688)

Philippe de La Hire

French mathematician and astronomer (1640-1718)

early 18th-century Barbadian pirate

Vincenzo Coronelli

Italian cartographer (1650–1718)

French mathematician (1640-1718)

Karl, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1652-1718)

Devlet II Giray

Dutch scholar (1676-1718)

Margherita Maria Farnese

Italian duchess

German sculptor (1652-1718)

Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Étienne Baluze

French scholar (1630-1718)

English poet, writer (1674-1718)

William Henry I of Nassau-Usingen

Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1702–1718)

Guy-Crescent Fagon

French botanist (1638-1718)

Moritz William, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz

Duke of Saxe-Zeitz

Domenico Martinelli

Italian architect (1650-1718)

Prince George William of Great Britain

second son of the future King George II and Queen Caroline

Gaspard Abeille

French poet (1648-1718)

Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina

Italian writer and jurist (1664-1718)

Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

Chinese painter (1632-1718)

Jean d'Estrées

French diplomat (1666-1718)

Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury

British diplomat; (1660-1718)

Benjamin Church

American carpenter, military officer, and Ranger during America's Colonial era

Louis of Lorraine, Count of Armagnac

French noble (1641-1718)

Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet.

Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle

son of Oswald van Keppel and his wife Anna Geertruid van Lintelo (1670-1718)

Frederick Adolphus, Count of Lippe-Detmold

German noble (1667-1718)

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield

Maximilian Charles, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

German nobleman (1656-1718)

Royal Consort Sukbin Choe(Queen Ansun)

royal consort (1670-1718)

Marie Anne de Bourbon, Duchess of Vendôme

French noblewoman

Henri d'Harcourt

French diplomat (1654-1718)

British biologist and pharmacist (1663-1718)

King of Vietnam

Peter IV of Kongo

ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo from 1695 to 1718

Empress Xiaohuizhang

Qing Dynasty empress

Francois Nicolaas Fagel

Dutch art collector (1655-1718)

Richard Cumberland

English philosopher, and Bishop of Peterborough (1631–1718)

Camille Le Tellier

French clergyman (1675-1718)

Benoîte Rencurel

French shepherdess and Marian visionary

Nicolaas Heinsius the Younger

Dutch physician and author

Bernard Nieuwentyt

Dutch mathematician and philosopher (1654-1718)

painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands (1652-1718)

Giacinto Cestoni

Italian naturalist (1637-1718)

Sigbert Heister

Austrian field marshal

Giuseppe Avanzi

Italian painter (1645-1718)

Bandino Panciatici

Roman Catholic cardinal (1629-1718)

Johann Burchard Freystein

German hymnwriter

Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns

German organist and composer (1637-1718)

Lars Gathenhielm

Swedish privateer

Václav Karel Holan Rovenský

Czech baroque composer and organist