page_title: 1701
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1701 / Deaths
context_page_description: 1701 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1701st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 701st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1701, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
  In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
context_section_description: January 3
  Fernand Palma d'Artois, Vicar Apostolic of Great Mogul and Titular Archbishop of Ancyra (b. 1623)
  Louis I, Prince of Monaco, Monegasque prince (b. 1642)
  January 4
  Luís de Sousa, cardinal (b. 1630)
  Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1638)
  January 6 – Toussaint Rose, French writer (b. 1611)
  January 14 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)
  January 17 – Domenico Belisario de Bellis, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Molfetta (1696–1701) (b. 1647)
  January 18 – Sir John Fagg, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1627)
  January 27 – James Graham, English born colonial American politician (b. 1650)
  February 10 – Savo Millini, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1644)
  February 15 – François de Clermont-Tonnerre, French aristocrat and cleric (b. 1629)
  February 27 – Christiana Oxenstierna, Swedish noble (b. 1661)
  March 15 – Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
  March 19 – John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1646)
  March 31 – Thomas van Rhee, Governor of Dutch Ceylon (b. 1634)
  April 2 – Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1655)
  April 4 – Joseph Haines, English entertainer and author
  April 8 – Alexander Sforza, Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto and Apostolic Nuncio to Savoy (b. 1658)
  April 18 – Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg, (1662–1701) (b. 1641)
  April 21 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
  April 24 – Fernando de Carvajal y Ribera, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santo Domingo (b. 1632)
  May 8
  Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, English noble (b. 1630)
  Jacob de Heusch, Dutch painter (b. 1656)
  May 18 – Niwa Mitsushige, Edo period Japanese samurai, 2nd Niwa daimyō of Shirakawa Domain and the 1st Niwa daimyō of Nihonmatsu Domain (b. 1622)
  May 20
  Rosine Elisabeth Menthe, morganatic wife of Duke Rudolf August of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1663)
  Christiana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, duchess consort of Saxe-Merseburg (b. 1634)
  May 23
  Captain William Kidd, Scottish privateer (b. 1645)
  Anne Hilarion de Tourville, French naval commander who served under King Louis XIV (b. 1642)
  May 26 – Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Danish-German princess (b. 1633)
  May 30 – Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, 17th-century English politician and Jacobite (b. 1650)
  June 2
  Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
  Anna Stanisławska, Polish author and poet known for her sole work (b. 1651)
  June 7 – Charles Cotterell, English courtier (b. 1615)
  June 9 – Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife (b. 1640)
  June 24 – Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville (b. 1655)
  July 5 – Pier Matteo Petrucci, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1636)
  July 7 – William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
  July 12 – Giovanni Battista Nepita, Bishop of Massa Lubrense and Bishop of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi e Bisaccia (b. 1624)
  July 14 – Lorenzo Kreutter de Corvinis, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vieste (1697–1701) (b. 1658)
  July 16 – Justus Danckerts, Dutch artist (b. 1635)
  August 6 – William Hedges, the first governor of the East India Company (b. 1632)
  August 20 – Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright (b. 1639)
  August 22 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
  August 31 – Samuel Chappuzeau, French scholar (b. 1625)
  September 4 – Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath, English diplomat (b. 1661)
  September 15 – Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
  September 16 – James II of England, King of England and Ireland, and of Scotland (as James VII) (b. 1633)
  September 17 – Stanislaus Papczyński, Polish priest (b. 1631)
  September 19 – Walter Moyle, English politician (b. 1627)
  September 20 – Bernard Granville, courtier of King Charles II and MP (b. 1631)
  September 28 – Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein, German noblewoman (b. 1632)
  October 3 – Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
  November 1 – Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray, Scottish nobleman (b. 1634)
  November 5 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politici
caption: Madeleine de Scudéry died 2 June
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