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== Deaths == [[File:Henriqueta d'Este.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Enrichetta d'Este]]]] [[File:Mgr Pierre-Herman Dosquet.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pierre-Herman Dosquet]]]] [[File:Cornelia Schlosser geb Goethe.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Cornelia Schlosser]]]] [[File:The Qing Dynasty Consort Yehonara.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Consort Shu (Qianlong)|Consort Shu]]]] [[File:Infante Felipe Antonio, "Duke of Calabria" Infante of Spain (Francesco Liani).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria]]]] [[File:WP Charles-Antoine de la Roche-Aymon.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon]]]] [[File:Ad Sir Charles Knowles Bt.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet]]]] ===January–March=== * [[January 10]] – [[Spranger Barry]], Irish actor (b. [[1719]]) * [[January 12]] – [[Hugh Mercer]], [[American Revolutionary War]] officer, mortally wounded in battle (b. [[1726]]) * [[January 13]] – [[James Rait]], Anglican clergyman, Scottish Episcopal Church Bishop of Brechin 1742–1777 (b. [[1689]]) * [[January 27]] – [[Hubert de Brienne]], French naval commander (b. [[1690]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Enrichetta d'Este]], Duchess of Parma (b. [[1702]]) * [[February 9]] ** [[Captain Abraham Godwin]], American marine on [[USS Washington (1776 row galley)|USS ''Washington'' (1776 row galley)]] (b. [[1724]]) ** [[Seth Pomeroy]], American gunsmith and soldier (b. [[1706]]) * [[February 11]] – [[Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of Minto]], Scottish statesman, philosopher and poet (b. [[1722]]) * [[February 24]] – King [[Joseph I of Portugal]] (b. [[1714]]) * [[February 28]] – [[Joab Hoisington]], American major (b. [[1736]]) * [[March 1]] ** [[Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski]], Polish nobleman (szlachcic) (b. [[1711]]) ** [[Georg Christoph Wagenseil]], Austrian composer (b. [[1715]]) * [[March 2]] – [[Empress Xiaoshengxian]], mother of the Chinese [[Qianlong Emperor]] of China (b. [[1692]]) * [[March 4]] – [[Pierre-Herman Dosquet]], 4th bishop of Quebec (b. [[1691]]) * [[March 6]] – [[Jeremias Friedrich Reuß]], German theologian (b. [[1700]]) * [[March 10]] – [[John the Painter]], British criminal (b. [[1752]]) * [[March 20]] – [[Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart]], French Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. [[1708]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Sir Hugh Paterson, 2nd Baronet]], Scottish Jacobite and Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (b. [[1685]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Richard Terrick]], Church of England clergyman, Bishop of Peterborough 1757–1764 and Bishop of London 1764–1777 (b. [[1710]]) ===April–June=== * [[April 7]] – [[Anna Chamber]], British noblewoman and poet (b. [[1709]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Antonio Joli]], Italian painter of ''vedute'' and ''capricci'' (b. [[1700]]) * [[May 5]] – [[Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal]], Palestinian rabbi preaching in the Americas (b. [[1733]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay]], marine captain and colonial administrator in New France (b. [[1708]]) * [[May 9]] – [[Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford]], Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (b. [[1715]]) * [[May 11]] – [[George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot]], British governor of Madras (b. [[1719]]) * [[May 19]] – [[Button Gwinnett]], a signatory of the American Declaration of Independence (b. [[1735]]) * [[May 22]] – [[David Wooster]], American general in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War (b. [[1711]]) * [[May 28]] – [[William Douglas (colonel)|William Douglas]], American military officer, leading regiments from Connecticut in the American Revolutionary War (b. [[1742]]) * [[May 31]] – [[Henry Fane of Wormsley]], English politician (b. [[1703]]) * [[June 8]] – [[Cornelia Schlosser]], sister and only sibling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to survive to adulthood (b. [[1750]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Georg Friedrich Meier]], German philosopher and aesthetician (b. [[1718]]) ===July–September=== * [[July 4]] – [[Consort Shu (Qianlong)|Consort Shu]], consort of the Chinese Qianlong Emperor (b. [[1728]]) * [[July 13]] – [[Guillaume Coustou the Younger]], French artist (b. [[1716]]) * [[August 14]] ** [[Karl Wilhelm von Dieskau]], Prussian lieutenant general and general inspector of the artillery (b. [[1701]]) ** [[Otto Magnus von Schwerin]], Prussian general in the army of Frederick the Great (b. [[1701]]) * [[August 23]] – [[Celia Grillo Borromeo]], [[Italian people|Italian]] scientist, [[mathematician]] (b. [[1684]]) * [[August 30]] – [[John Clavering (British Army officer)|John Clavering]], British Army officer (b. [[1722]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Tekle Haymanot II]], emperor of Ethiopia (b. [[1754]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt]], English landowner, diplomat, general and Viceroy of India (b. [[1714]]) * [[September 18]] – [[Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz]], wife of Frederick (b. [[1710]]) * [[September 19]] – [[Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria]] (b. [[1747]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk]], British peer (b. [[1686]]) * [[September 22]] – [[John Bartram]], American botanist (b. [[1699]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Johann Heinrich Lambert]], Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. [[1728]]) ===October–December=== * [[October 3]] – [[Jeremias van Riemsdijk]], Dutch colonial governor (b. [[1712]]) * [[October 4]] – [[Francis Nash]], American brigadier general, killed at the [[Battle of Germantown]] (b. c. [[1742]]) * [[October 6]] – [[Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin]], French salon holder (b. [[1699]]) * [[October 7]] – [[Simon Fraser of Balnain]], Scottish general during the American Revolutionary War, killed in battle (b. [[1729]]) * [[October 21]] – [[Samuel Foote]], English dramatist and actor (b. [[1720]]) * [[October 22]] – [[Friedrich Baum]], German dragoon Lieutenant Colonel of Brunswick in British service during the American Revolutionary War (b. [[1748]]) * [[October 25]] – [[Carl von Donop]], Hessian colonel fighting in the American Revolutionary War (b. [[1732]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon]], French cardinal-archbishop and Grand Almoner (b. [[1697]]) * [[October 30]] – [[John Hart (soldier)|John Hart]], American militia officer during King George's War and the French and Indian War (b. [[1706]]) * [[November 1]] – [[Jonathan Hampton]], American colonial surveyor (b. [[1712]]) * [[November 6]] – [[Bernard de Jussieu]], French naturalist (b. [[1699]]) * [[November 10]] – [[Cornstalk (Shawnee leader)|Cornstalk]], Shawnee chief (b. c. [[1720]]) * [[November 13]] – [[William Bowyer (printer)|William Bowyer]], English printer (b. [[1699]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Pratap Singh Shah]], 2nd king of Nepal (b. [[1751]]) * [[November 18]] – [[Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1716–1777)|Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley]], English landowner and politician (b. [[1716]]) * [[December 9]] – [[Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet]], British Royal Navy officer (b. c. [[1704]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Albrecht von Haller]], Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. [[1708]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Charles Chauncey (physician)|Charles Chauncey]], English physician (b. [[1706]]) * [[December 26]] ** [[Dolly Pentreath]], last-known fluent native [[Last speaker of the Cornish language|speaker of the Cornish language]] (b. [[1692]]) ** [[Ricardo Wall]], Spanish-Irish cavalry officer (b. [[1694]]) * [[December 27]] – [[Frederick Keppel (bishop)|Frederick Keppel]], Church of England clergyman (b. [[1728]]) * [[December 30]] – [[Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria]], Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Bavaria 1745–1777 (b. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Maximilian III Joseph {{!}} elector of Bavaria {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maximilian-III-Joseph |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=16 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
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