page_title: 1740
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1740 / Deaths
context_page_description: 1740 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1740th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 740th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1740, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January – Louise Élisabeth de Joybert, politically active Canadian governors' wife (b. 1673)
  January 5 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667)
  January 17 – Matthias Buchinger, German artist (b. 1674)
  January 20 – Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli, Italian jurist of religious law and historian (b. 1655)
  January 21 – Nicholas Trott, colonial magistrate, South Carolina Chief Justice (b. 1663)
  January 27 – Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
  January 29 – Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough (b. 1686)
  February 6 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
  February 23 – Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Italian artist (b. 1656)
  February 29 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
  March 23 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (b. 1660)
  April 28 – Bajirao I, Great Maratha warrior and Prime Minister of Marartha Empire (b.1700)
  April 23 – Thomas Tickell, English writer (b. 1685)
  May 17 – Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (b. 1681)
  May 31 – Frederick William I, King in Prussia (b. 1688)
  June 1 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
  June 6 – Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony (b. 1676)
  June 17
  William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
  Saint Theophilus of Corte, Italian Roman Catholic priest, preacher, missionary and saint (b. 1676)
  June 18 – Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye, Anglo-Irish nobleman (b. 1652)
  July 2 – Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
  October 5 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
  October 11 – Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1679)
  October 20 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
  October 28 – Anna, Empress of Russia (b. 1693)
  December 1 – John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (b. 1680)
  December 20 – Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, British military officer and statesman (b. 1675)
  December 30 – John Senex, English geographer (b. ca. 1678)
caption: Anna, Empress of Russia
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