page_title: 1742
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1742 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Edmond Halley (1656-1741)
context_page_description: 1742 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1742nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 742nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1742, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)
  January 14 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer (b. 1656)
  February 22 – Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
  March 23 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French author (b. 1670)
  April 2 – James Douglas, Scottish physician, anatomist (b. 1675)
  April 15 – Samuel Shute, Governor of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire (b. 1662)
  April 17 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (b. 1664)
  May 13 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
  May 21 – Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)
  May 26 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (b. 1672)
  June 18 – John Aislabie, British politician (b. 1670)
  June 27 – Nathan Bailey, English philologist, lexicographer
  July 1 – Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech composer (b. 1684)
  July 2 – Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre, British peer, renowned horticulturist (b. 1713)
  July 4 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
  July 9 – John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673)
  July 12 – Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675)
  July 14 – Richard Bentley, English scholar and critic (b. 1662)
  July 19 – William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
  July 23 – Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley, known as mother of Methodism. (b. 1669)
  July 30 – Nicholas Roosevelt (1658–1742), Dutch-American politician (b. 1658)
  August 14 – Maria van Lommen, Dutch gold- and silversmith and guild member (b. 1688)
  August 25 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
  September 18 – Vincenzo Ludovico Gotti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1664)
  September 22 – Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (b. 1708)
  September 27 – Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
  September 28 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663)
  November 12 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician, chemist (b. 1660)
  November 20 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)
  November 24 – Andrew Bradford, American publisher (b. 1686)
  December 18 – William Fairfield, Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Deputies (b. 1662)
  December 31 – Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)
caption: Edmond Halley
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