page_title: 1715
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1715 / Deaths
context_page_description: 1715 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1715th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 715th year of the 2nd millennium, the 15th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1715, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 7
  François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (b. 1651)
  Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, British botanist (b. 1630)
  January 29 – Bernard Lamy, French Oratorian mathematician and theologian (b. 1640)
  January 27 – Caspar Neumann, German professor and clergyman (b. 1648)
  February 3 – Gottfried Vopelius, German academic (b. 1645)
  February 4 – Martín de Ursúa, Spanish conquistador (b. 1653)
  February 17 – Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (b. 1646)
  February 19 – Domenico Egidio Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1659)
  February 21 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1637)
  February 25 – Pu Songling, Qing Dynasty Chinese writer (b. 1640)
  March 2 – Cardinal de Bouillon, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1643)
  March 17 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643)
  March 18 – William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun, (b.1654)
  March 27 – August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig, German prince (b. 1655)
  April 6 – Perizonius, Dutch linguist (b. 1651)
  April 16 – Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1679)
  May 8 – Marie Mancini, Italian courtier, third of the five Mancini sisters (b. 1639)
  May 19 – Charles Montagu, English Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
  May 21 – Pierre Magnol, French botanist (b. 1638)
  May 30 – Roeloff Swartwout, American city founder in New York (b. 1634)
  June 19 – Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (b. 1645)
  June 25 – Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and buccaneer (b. 1646)
  July 5 – Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659)
  July 28 – Jakub Kresa, Czech mathematician (b. 1648)
  July 30 – Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)
  August 21 – Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German countess (b. 1660)
  September 1 – François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
  September 1 – King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
  September 24 – Wilhelm Homberg, Dutch alchemist (b. 1652)
  October 13 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
  October 14 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
  October 15 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675)
  October 17 – Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (b. 1655)
  October 30 – Juliane Louise of East Frisia, Princess of East Frisia (b. 1657)
  October 31 – Elisha Cooke, Sr., Massachusetts colonial politician and judge (b. 1637)
  November – Mirwais Hotak, Pashtun emir, and founder of the Hotaki Dynasty (b. 1673)
  November 24 – Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1636)
  December 9 – Benedetto Gennari II, Italian painter (b. 1633)
  December 15 – George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
  December 28
  William Carstares, Scottish clergyman (b. 1649)
  Joanna Koerten, Dutch painter (b. 1650)
  date unknown – Elizabeth Boutell, British stage actor (b. 1650)
caption: François Fénelon
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