Category

1738 deaths

page 1

Herman Boerhaave

Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668–1738)

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer

German Jewish banker and court Jew in Württemberg

Caspar Bartholin the Younger

Danish anatomist

Karl III Wilhelm of Baden-Durlach

Margrave of Baden-Durlach from 1709 until his death

Turlough O'Carolan

Irish harpist and composer

German architect

Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend

British Whig statesman (1674-1738)

Jean-Joseph Mouret

French composer (1682-1738)

Jean-François Dandrieu

French composer

Emir of Afghanistan

khan of the Crimean Khanate

Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg

German noble (1672–1738)

James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick

Jacobite and Spanish general and noble

Ferdinand Maria Innocenz of Bavaria

Bavarian prince and imperial field marshal

Christian Detlev Reventlow

Danish general and president of Altona (1671-1738)

George Sorocold

British civil engineer (1688-c.1738) associated with water engineering projects

Sava Vladislavich

Russian diplomat (1669–1738)

Daughter of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III

Benoît de Maillet

French naturalists, biologist and diplomat (1656-1738)

Jean-Baptiste Labat

French botanist (1663-1738)

Johann Beringer

German physician and philosopher

Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

Theophilus Siegfried Bayer

German sinologist

Béatrice Hiéronyme of Lorraine

French princess and abbess (1662-1738)

French ballet dancer

Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Güstrow

German noble (1668-1738)

Dominic Marquard, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

German nobleman (1690-1735)

Charlotte Amalia of Nassau-Dillenburg

Regent of Nassau-Usingen (1718-1735) and Nassau-Saarbrücken (1728-1738)

Francesco Barberini

Italian Cardinal (1662–1738) of the family of Pope Urban VIII

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1655-1738)

Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Ahmed III

Jean-Baptiste Régis

French Jesuit missionary to China

Teodor Andrzej Potocki

Wolfgang Hannibal von Schrattenbach

Austrian priest

Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle

English politician and noble (1669-1738)

Franz Xaver Murschhauser

German composer and theorist

French banker & slave ship owner (1655-1738)

Nguyễn Phúc Trú

Vietnamese ruler

Charles Bridgeman

British garden designer

Jean-François Melon

French economist

Nokasad was the king of the southern Laotian Kingdom of Champasak from 1713 to 1737. Champassak, formerly the southern part of Lan Xang, seceded from it in 1713. He was the grandson of the last king of Lan Xang, King Sourigna Vongsa; and a son-in-law of the Cambodian King Chey Chettha IV.

Franz Anton von Sporck

Czech-German nobleman

Carlo Antonio Tavella

Italian painter (1668-1738)

József Rákóczi

second son of Francis II Rákóczi (1700–1738)

Antoine Gaston de Roquelaure

Marshal of France

Giuseppe Averani

Italian jurist and naturalist

Danish artist (1671-1738)

Alessandro Marchesini

Italian painter (1663-1738)

Anna Aloysia Maximiliane von Lamberg

Carlo Agostino Badia

Italian composer (1672-1738)

British botanist (1666-1738)

English gardener

Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné

French noble (1684-1739)

Georg Andreas Agricola

German physician (1672-1738)

Johann Rudolf Byss

painter from Switzerland (1660-1738)

last German executed for witchcraft

Antonio Amorosi

Italian painter (1660-1738)

Charles Joachim Colbert de Croissy

French bishop of Montpellier

José de Torres

Spanish composer