Famous Deaths for Year 1740
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Months in Year 1740: January February April May June July October December
Deaths 1 - 19 of 19
Jan 2nd - Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63
Jan 5th - Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72
Jan 27th - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
Feb 8th - Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], blind Pope (1730-40), dies at 87
Feb 9th - Vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85
Feb 29th - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
Apr 23rd - Thomas Tickell, poet, dies
Apr 25th - Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b. 1699)
May 15th - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
May 31st - Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51
Jun 1st - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
Jun 6th - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony
Jun 17th - Sir William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
Jul 19th - Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71
Oct 5th - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
Oct 20th - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
Oct 28th - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47
Dec 20th - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675)
Dec 26th - Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, lt-gen (12 children), dies
