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1744 deaths

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English poet (1688–1744)

Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)

Giambattista Vico

Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

British duchess (1660-1744)

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria

Austrian archduchess, daughter of the Emperor of the Holy Empire Charles VI (1718-1744)

Giuseppe Guarneri

Italian luthier (1698-1744)

Italian composer

Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans

French princess (1676-1744)

John Theophilus Desaguliers

French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman

Antiochus Kantemir

Russian academic

French composer and conductor (1660-1744)

Johann Heinrich Schulze

German professor and polymath (1687-1744)

English mathematician and astronomer; (1682-1744)

Marie Anne de Mailly

18th-century French noblewoman

Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller

Austrian marshall and warrior

Frederick Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Italian composer (1679-1744)

Madame de Ventadour

French noble (1654-1744)

Maria Crescentia Höss

Roman Catholic saint

Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki

Polish-Lithuanian noble (1680-1744)

Princess Thérèse of France

Daughter of Louis XV of France

Prince of East Frisia

Michele Marieschi

Venetian painter of landscapes and vedute

Johan Gustaf Renat

Swedish cartographer, prisoner and advisor among the Dzungar Mongols for a decade

Leopold Herzog von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg

Gaspar de Molina y Oviedo

Roman Catholic cardinal (1679-1744)

Mihai Racoviță

Prince of Wallachia

Swedish noble (1714-1744)

Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli

Italian sculptor (1675-1744)

Pierre Lepautre

French sculptor (1659-1744)

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos

English politician (1673-1744)

Stefano Durazzo

Kasper Niesiecki

Polish heraldist, Jesuit, lexicographer, writer, theologian and preacher

William Byrd II

American planter (1674-1744)

Japanese philosopher

Marie Poussepin

French Dominican and founder of Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation

Giuseppe Firrao il Vecchio

18th-century Roman Catholic cardinal

Count Leopold Anton von Firmian

Austrian archbishop

English editor and author

French painter (1662-1744)

Margrave Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Prussian major general and titular Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Italian art historian, art collector, and economist

Guglielmo Borremans

Flemish painter (1670–1744)

Nicolas Gédoyn

French educationist (1677-1744)

František Antonín Míča

1694-1744, Czech conductor and composer

Dionysius of Fourna

Greek Monk, Educator, Painter

Joseph, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Rotenburg

Léon Potier de Gesvres

French archbishop (1656-1744)

Dutch painter (1634-1714)

Jagannatha Samrat

Indian astronomer and mathematician

Isaac de Moucheron

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1667-1744)

William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale

Polish noble (1713-1744)

Bogusław Korwin Gosiewski

Polish nobleman

Johann Joachim Lange

German philosopher and theologian

Catherine Jérémie

Midwife and botanist (1664-1744)

Marquis of Verboom

Flemish-born military engineer in the service of the King of Spain

James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn

Scottish and Irish nobleman (1686-1744)