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== Deaths == === January–June === [[File:Admiral of the White by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney]]]] * [[January 17]] – [[George Horne (bishop)|George Horne]], British academic and [[Bishop of Norwich]] (b.[[1730]]) * [[February 15]] – [[John Witherspoon]], Scottish American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. [[1723]]) * [[February 23]] – Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]], English painter (b. [[1723]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Farington|title=Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=krZNAAAAYAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Pallas Athene|isbn=978-1-84368-001-7|page=151}}</ref> * [[March 1]] ** [[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1747]]) ** [[Jean Godin des Odonais]], French cartographer and naturalist (b. [[1713]]) * [[March 1]] – [[Angelo Emo]], Venetian admiral and statesman (b. [[1731]]) * [[March 3]] – [[Robert Adam]], Scottish architect and designer (b. [[1728]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank N. Magill|title=The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HaHdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA7|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-92414-0|pages=7}}</ref> * [[March 10]] – [[John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1713]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/john-stuart-3rd-earl-of-bute |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=19 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> * [[March 23]] – [[Luís António Verney]], Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (b. [[1713]]) * [[March 29]] – King [[Gustav III of Sweden]] (assassinated) (b. [[1746]]) * [[April 3]] – Sir [[George Pocock]], British admiral (b. [[1706]]) * [[April 4]] – [[James Sykes (Continental Congress)|James Sykes]], American politician (b. [[1725]]) * [[April 14]] – [[Maximilian Hell]], Slovakian astronomer (b. [[1720]]) * [[April 20]] – [[Matthias von Schoenberg]], Catholic author (b. [[1732]])<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Matthias von Schoenberg}}</ref> * [[April 23]] – [[Karl Friedrich Bahrdt]], German theologian, adventurer (b. [[1741]]) * [[April 30]] – [[John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich]], English statesman (b. [[1718]]) * [[May 10]] – [[John Stevens (New Jersey politician)|John Stevens]], American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. c. [[1715]]) * [[May 12]] – [[Charles Simon Favart]], French dramatist (b. [[1710]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Don Michael Randel|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA262|year=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37299-3|pages=262}}</ref> * [[May 24]] – [[George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney]], British naval officer (b. [[1718]]) * [[June 4]] – [[John Burgoyne]], British general (b. [[1723]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Rhodehamel|title=The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkF3AAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Library of America|isbn=978-1-883011-91-8|page=816}}</ref> * [[June 22]] – [[Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab]], Arabian Wahhabi preacher (b. [[1703]]) === July–December === [[File:Madame la princesse de Lamballe by Antoine-François Callet (circa 1776, Callet).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe]]]] * [[July 3]] – [[Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]] (b. [[1721]]) * [[July 18]] – [[John Paul Jones]], American-born naval captain (b. [[1747]]) * [[July 21]] – [[Richard Hancorn (Royal Navy officer)|Richard Hancorne]], British Royal Navy officer (b. [[1754]]) * [[July 29]] – [[René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou]], Chancellor of France (b. [[1714]]) * [[August 3]] – [[Richard Arkwright]], English inventor (b. [[1732]]) * [[August 4]] – [[John Burgoyne]], British army officer, playwright and politician (b. [[1722]]) * [[August 5]] – [[Frederick North, Lord North]], [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (b. [[1732]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/frederick-north |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> * [[September 3]] – [[Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe]], French princess, courtier to [[Marie Antoinette]] (killed in [[September Massacres]]) (b. [[1749]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Charles d'Abancour]], French statesman (killed in September Massacres) (b. [[1758]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Nguyễn Huệ]], Vietnamese emperor (b. [[1753]]) * [[September 18]] – [[August Gottlieb Spangenberg]], German religious leader (b. [[1704]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Adam Gottlob Moltke]], Danish statesman (b. [[1710]]) * [[September 29]] – [[George Browne (soldier)|George Browne]], Russian-Irish field-marshal (b. [[1698]]) * [[October 7]] – [[George Mason]], American patriot (b. [[1725]]) * [[October 14]] – [[Sophie Charlotte Ackermann]], German actress (b. [[1714]]) * [[October 21]] – [[Anders Rudolf du Rietz]], Swedish general, count and politician (b. [[1722]]) * [[October 22]] – [[Guillaume Le Gentil]], French astronomer (b. [[1725]]) * [[October 28]] ** [[Paul Möhring]], German physician and scientist (b. [[1710]]) ** [[John Smeaton]], English civil engineer (b. [[1724]]) * [[November]] – [[Samuel Hearne]], English explorer, fur-trader, author and naturalist (b. [[1745]]) * [[December 7]] – [[Marie Jeanne Riccoboni]] (Laboras de Mezières), French novelist (b. [[1714]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Samia I. Spencer|title=Writers of the French Enlightenment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K9EUAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Thomson Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-8132-6|page=108}}</ref> * [[December 8]] – [[Henry Laurens]], political leader during the [[American Revolutionary War]], father of [[John Laurens]] (b. [[1724]]) * [[December 15]] ** [[Joseph Martin Kraus]], Swedish composer (b. [[1756]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Burnett R. Toskey|title=Concertos for Violin and Viola: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZwJAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=B.R. Toskey|isbn=978-0-9601054-8-9|page=451}}</ref> ** [[Hugh Pigot (Royal Navy officer, born 1722)|Hugh Pigot]], British Royal Navy admiral (b. [[1722]])
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