1730 deaths

pope of the Catholic Church from 1724 to 1730

Emperor of Russia (1715-1730)

king of Denmark and Norway (1699–1730)

Italian opera composer

Hotak emir of Afghanistan (died 1730)

Icelandic scholar and manuscript collector (1663-1730)

Electress of Bavaria and of the Electorate of the Palatinate (1676-1730)

Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

French actress (1692-1730)

Italian scholar and natural scientist (1658-1730)

French explorer

German princess

Ottoman rebel

French duke (1644-1730)

Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess (1659-1730)

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Period in the early 18th century (1666-1730)

Mistress of James II of England (1648-1730)

Ahmed Effendi, better known by his mahlas (nom de plume) Nedîm (Ottoman Turkish: نديم; – 1730), was an Ottoman lyric poet of the Tulip Period. He achieved his greatest fame during the reign of Ahmed III. He was known for his slightly decadent, even licentious poetry often couched in the most staid of classical formats, but also for bringing the folk poetic forms of türkü and şarkı into the court.

Italian baroque painter (1663-1730)

French painter (1645-1730)

Italian scientist (1661-1730)

Prussian army officer

Italian painter, engraver and stage designer (1676-1730)

Austrian painter (1656-1730)

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1661-1730)

Salem witch trial judge; early abolitionist; chief justice of Massachusetts

Son of Barbara Palmer (1662-1730), Countess of Castlemaine and Charles II of England

Russian field marshall (1675-1730)

Moravian-German composer and violoncellist

French pirate

Italian cardinal, patron of the arts, composer and librettist.

German composer

Flemish surgeon

Superior General of the Society of Jesuits (1648-1730)

German physician, botanist and traveller (1693-1730)

Italian painter (1657-1730)

(1669-1730)

Phanariote Prince of Wallachia, Grand Dragoman of the Gate (1680-1730)

French Jesuit active in China

British noble and politician

French painter (1680-1730)

Flemish Baroque sculptor (1644-1730)

Spanish architect

Belgian composer

French diplomat (1652-1730)

queen; Korean royal consort

French duke

Grand Hetman of Lithuanian

Ukrainian saint

Catholic cardinal

samurai in Edo period (1639–1730)

French composer and music theorist

Polish noble

Catholic bishop (1642-1730)

British actress (1683-1730)

German historian and linguist

Portuguese woman soldier who dressed as a man

Swedish general and noble

French anatomist

Czech composer