page_title: 1728
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1728 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: mezzotint portrait of Cotton Mather (Feb. 12, 1663 - Feb. 13, 1728), American Puritan clergyman.
context_page_description: 1728 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1728th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 728th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1728, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 26 – Paolo de Matteis, Italian painter (b. 1662)
  February 12 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat, composer (b. 1654)
  February 13 – Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1663)
  February 16
  Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, Swedish noblewoman of Brandenburg extraction (b. 1662)
  Heinrich of Saxe-Weissenfels, Count of Barby, German prince (b. 1657)
  February 25 – Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German general (b. 1661)
  March 4 – Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, eldest daughter of Peter the Great (b. 1708)
  March 7 – Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (b. 1653)
  March 18 – George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury (b. 1660)
  March 20 – Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard, Marshal of France (b. 1652)
  May 26 – William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven, English politician (b. 1657)
  April 3 – James Anderson, Scottish historian (b. 1662)
  April 10 – Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Swedish architect (b. 1654)
  April 21 – Filippo Antonio Gualterio, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1660)
  April 23 – Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, Spanish composer, musician and organist (b. 1644)
  May 7 – Rose Venerini, Italian saint, educational pioneer (b. 1656)
  May 14 – Louise Marie d'Orléans, Mademoiselle, French princess (b. 1726)
  May 23 – William Delaune, English academic administrator and clergyman (b. 1659)
  June 6 – David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, British politician (b. 1660)
  June 17 – Matthieu Petit-Didier, French Benedictine theologian (b. 1659)
  June 30 – Otto Friedrich von der Groeben, Prussian traveller, soldier and author (b. 1657)
  July 21 – Nathaniel Gould, English politician (b. 1661)
  August 3 – Abraham de Peyster, United States politician (b. 1657)
  August 7 – Jacques L'enfant, French Protestant pastor (b. 1661)
  August 11 – William Sherard, English botanist (b. 1659)
  August 15 – Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656)
  August 26
  William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. 1662)
  Anne Marie d'Orléans, Queen consort of Sicily and Sardinia (b. 1669)
  September 23 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
  September 24 – Frederik Krag, Danish nobleman and senior civil servant (b. 1655)
  October 1 – Robert Livingston the Elder, New York colonial official (b. 1654)
  October 15 – Bernard de la Monnoye, French lawyer (b. 1641)
  November 10 – Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (b. 1661)
  November 15 – Élie Benoist, French Protestant minister (b. 1640)
  November 19 – Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (b. 1694)
  November 22
  Grand Duchess Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia (1714–1728), Russian grand duchess (b. 1714)
  Joseph Boyse, Presbyterian minister (b. 1660)
  December 8 – Camillo Rusconi, Italian artist (b. 1658)
  December 28 – Thomas Johnson, English politician (b. 1664)
  date unknown
  Giovanni Barbara, Maltese architect and military engineer (b. 1642)
  Dionysius Andreas Freher, German mystic (b. 1649)
  Stokkseyrar-Dísa, Icelandic Galdrmistress (b. 1668)
  Serfoji I, third Raja of the Bhonsle Dynasty (b. 1675)
  Maria Guyomar de Pinha, Siamese cook (b. 1664)
caption: Cotton Mather
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