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1731 deaths

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English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)

English mathematician (1685–1731)

Bartolomeo Cristofori

Italian maker of musical instruments (1655–1731)

English feminist writer (1666-1731)

Eudoxia Lopukhina

russian Tsarina as the first wife of Peter I

Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado

Spanish Dominican lay sister and mystic

Antonio Farnese

Louise Hippolyte I, Princess of Monaco

Princess regnant of Monaco and Monegasque princess (1697-1731)

Frederik Ruysch

Dutch botanist and anatomist (1638-1731)

Antonio I, Prince of Monaco

Monegasque prince (1661-1731)

Johann Ludwig Bach

German composer and violinist

Violante Beatrice of Bavaria

Sienese governor; wife of Grand Prince Ferdinando (1673-1731)

Antoine Houdar de La Motte

French author (1672–1731)

Gustav Samuel Leopold, Duke of Zweibrücken

German noble (1670-1731)

Étienne François Geoffroy

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi

Ferdinand Brokoff

Czech sculptor (1688–1731)

Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

German prince (1662-1731)

Caspar Commelijn

Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Countess of Hanau

Margrave Albert Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Lieutenant-General in Brandenburg-Prussia and Grand Master of the Order of St. John

Chrysanthus Notaras

Greek Polymath and Patriarch of Jerusalem

Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

German duke (1688-1731)

German academic

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery

British nobleman

Duke Friedrich Ludwig, Hereditary Duke of Württemberg

Giovanna Fratellini

Italian painter (1666-1731)

British mathematician and theologian

Innocent of Irkutsk

First bishop of Irkutsk

Johann Melchior Dinglinger

German goldsmith (1664-1731)

Maharaja Chhatrasal Bundela (4 May 1649 – 20 December 1731) was the Bundela Maharaja of Panna or Maharaja of Bundelkhand from 1675 to 1731. He is well known for his resistance against the Mughal Empire and leading the struggle of independence of Bundelkhand.

Francesco de Sanctis

late Baroque Italian architect, most notable for his design of the Spanish Steps in Rome in collaboration with Alessandro Specchi

Elizabeth Needham

English procuress and brothel-keeper

Empress Xiaojingxian

Empress of the Qing Dynasty (1679-1731)

Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton

British Duke (1698-1731)

Ernest August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

Johann Melchior Roos

German painter (1663-1731)

Peregrine Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds

British peer (1691-1731)

King of Vietnam

Maria Selvaggia Borghini

Italian poet (1656-1731)

William II, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels

Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried and of Hesse-Rheinfels

Andreas Rüdiger

German philosopher and physicist (1673-1731)

Preah Keo Fa III

Cambodian King (1699-1700)

Jacob Paul von Gundling

German historian

Catherine Repond

Swiss woman executed for witchcraft in Fribourg

Tsarevna Praskovya Ivanovna of Russia

daughter of Tsar Ivan V of Russia

Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski

Polish poet (1669-1731)

Barbara FitzRoy

noblewoman; British prioress

Sicco van Goslinga

Dutch statesman and diplomat (1664-1731)

Lutheran bishop

István Koháry

Austro-Hungarian noble-poet (1649-1731)

Norwegian noble (1670-1731)

Mizuno Tadayuki

Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani

Italian painter (1660-1731)

George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter

British soldier, Governor of Minorca

Ferdinand Johann Adam von Pernau

Austrian ornithologist

José de Antequera y Castro

Panamanian judge

Jean-François Leriget de La Faye

French writer and diplomat (1674-1731)