page_title: 1717
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1717 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
context_page_description: 1717 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1717th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 717th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1717, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 6 – Lambert Bos, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1670)
  January 7 – Empress Xiaohuizhang, second consort of the Qing dynasty Shunzhi Emperor of China (b. 1641)
  January 13 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German-born Swiss naturalist and scientific illustrator, who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings of them (b. 1647)
  January 30 – John Hartstonge, Irish bishop (b. 1654)
  February 18 – Giovanni Maria Morandi, Italian painter (b. 1622)
  February 21 – Jan Dobrogost Krasiński, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) (b. 1639)
  February 23 – Magnus Stenbock, Swedish military officer (b. 1664)
  March 3 – Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1641)
  March 5 – François de Callières, French diplomat, member of the Académie française (b. 1645)
  March 8 – Abraham Darby I, English ironmaster, first of that name of three generations of a Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution (b. 1678)
  March 19 – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist (b. 1636)
  April 3 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)
  April 5 – Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
  April 11 – Abraham ben Saul Broda, Bohemian Talmudist (b. c. 1640)
  April 26
  Samuel Bellamy (Black Sam), English-born pirate (b. 1689)
  Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (b. 1637)
  John King, pirate (b. c. 1706/9)
  May 10 – John Hathorne, American magistrate (b. 1641)
  May 17 – Bon Boullogne, French painter (b. 1649)
  May 20 – John Trevor, Welsh lawyer and politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of England (b. 1637)
  June 3 – Fernando de Alencastre, 1st Duke of Linares, Spanish nobleman and military officer (b. c. 1641)
  June 9 – Jeanne Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
  June 11 – Louis de Carrières, French priest and Bible commentator (b. 1662)
  June 15 – Fabrizio Spada, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1643)
  June 23 – John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh, British politician (b. 1640)
  July 1 – Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1647)
  July 17 – Juan María de Salvatierra, Milanese Jesuit missionary to the Americas (b. 1648)
  August – William Cochrane, Scottish MP in the Parliament of Great Britain
  August 10 – Nicolaes Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands (b. 1641)
  August 16 – William Blathwayt, English civil servant and politician (b. 1649)
  August 30 – William Lloyd, English bishop (b. 1627)
  September 17 – Robert Cotton, English politician (born 1644)
  October – Philippe Pastour de Costebelle, French naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1661)
  October 22 – Henry Luttrell, Irish army officer, Jacobite commander (b. c. 1655; shot and mortally wounded in his sedan chair in Dublin)
  October 26 – Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
  November 16 – Hester Davenport, English stage actress (b. 1642)
  November 21 – Jean-Baptiste Santerre, French painter (b. 1650)
  November 26 – Daniel Purcell, English composer (b. 1664)
  December 4 – William Hamilton, surgeon in the British East India Company
  December 5 – Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, English politician (b. 1654)
  December 13 – Nicholas Noyes, Massachusetts colonial minister, during the time of the Salem witch trials (b. 1647)
  December 25 – Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, English peer and courtier (b. 1650)
  date unknown
  William Diaper, English poet of the Augustan era (b. 1685)
  William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock, Scottish nobleman
  Niccolao Manucci, Italian writer and traveller in India (b. 1639)
  Osei Kofi Tutu I, founder of the Ashanti Confederacy (b. c. 1660; killed in action)
  Wang Hui, Chinese landscape painter (b. 1632)
  Jane Wiseman, English actress, poet and playwright (b. c. 1682)
caption: Maria Sibylla Merian
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