Editing 1778 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Paul Jacques Malouin]], French chemist (b. [[1701]])
[[File:Carl von Linné.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Carl Linnaeus]]]]
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Carl Linnaeus]], Swedish botanist (b. [[1707]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Joseph Marie Terray]], French statesman (b. [[1715]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Laura Bassi]], Italian physicist and academic (b. [[1711]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Alexander Murray of Elibank]], fourth son of Alexander Murray (b. [[1712]])
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Thomas Arne]], English composer of ''Rule, Britannia!'' (b. [[1710]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Charles De Geer]], Swedish industrialist and entomologist (b. [[1720]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Charles le Beau]], French historian (b. [[1701]])
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Pieter Teyler van der Hulst]], Dutch businessman (b. [[1702]])
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[James Hargreaves]], English weaver, carpenter, and inventor (b. [[1720]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Lorenz Christoph Mizler]], German music historian, polymath (b. [[1711]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham]], [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (b. [[1708]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of William Pitt 'The Elder', 1st Earl of Chatham - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-pitt-1st-earl-of-chatham |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=20 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Paul-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil]], seigneur and colonial army officer in New France, governor of Trois-Rivières  (b. [[1701]])
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness]], English diplomat and politician (b. [[1718]])
[[File:Nicolas de Largillière, François-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire (vers 1724-1725) -001.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Voltaire]]]]
* [[May 30]] 
**[[José de la Borda]], Spanish/Mexican mining magnate (b. c. 1699)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mineriaenlinea.com/2013/02/sabes-quien-fue-jose-de-la-borda-sanchez/|title=¿Sabes quién fué José de la Borda Sánchez?|publisher=Mineria en Linea|language=es|access-date=May 31, 2019|date=Nov 21, 2018|trans-title=Do you know who José de la Borda Sánchez was?}}</ref>
**[[Voltaire]], French philosopher (b. [[1694]])<ref>Peter Gay, ''The Enlightenment – An Interpretation, Volume 2: The Science of Freedom'', Wildwood House, London, 1973, pp. 88–89.</ref>
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Philip Livingston]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. [[1716]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Konrad Ekhof]], German actor (b. [[1720]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Francesca Cuzzoni]], Italian operatic soprano (b. [[1696]])
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Pieter Burman the Younger]], Dutch philologist (b. [[1714]])
[[File:Jean-Jacques Rousseau (painted portrait).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]]]
* [[July 3]] 
** [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], Swiss philosopher (b. [[1712]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Henry Dobinson|title=Jean-Jacques Rousseau: His Thought and Its Relevance Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_RcAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Methuen|isbn=978-0-416-15210-4|page=3}}</ref>
** [[Bathsheba Spooner]], American murderer (b. c. [[1746]])
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Anna Maria Mozart]], Austrian mother to the [[Mozart]]s (b. [[1720]])
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Ebenezer Kinnersley]], American scientist (b. [[1711]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Charles Clémencet]], French historian (b. [[1703]])
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet]] of England (b. [[1712]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven]], British general, politician (b. [[1714]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Johan Augustin Mannerheim]], Swedish nobleman and military leader (b. [[1706]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gotlandsforsvarshistoria.se/biografica/akter-2/3428.htm|title=Johan Augustin Mannerheim|publisher=Gotlands Försvarshistoria och Gotlands Trupper|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231115152411/https://www.gotlandsforsvarshistoria.se/biografica/akter-2/3428.htm |access-date=23 October 2024|archive-date=November 15, 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers]], British Royal Navy admiral (b. [[1722]])
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[George Hay (politician)|George Hay]], British politician (b. [[1715]])
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Saliha Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III)|Saliha Sultan]], daughter of Ottoman Sultan (b. [[1715]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode]], German politician, provost and author (b. [[1716]])
* [[November 9]] 
** [[Giovanni Battista Piranesi]], Italian artist (b. [[1720]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Benjamin Burges Moore|title=Giovanni Battista Piranesi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL3wuqjo5ZEC|year=1962|page=26}}</ref>
** [[Lydia Taft]], American suffragist (b. [[1712]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Anne Steele]], English hymnwriter and essayist (b. [[1717]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert J. Morgan|title=Near to the Heart of God: Meditations on 366 Best-Loved Hymns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g5JzBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA324|date=October 2010|publisher=Revell|isbn=978-0-8007-3395-7|pages=324}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Francesco Cetti]], Italian Jesuit scientist (b. [[1726]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Pedro Antonio de Cevallos]], Spanish military Governor of Buenos Aires (1757&ndash;1766) (b. [[1715]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Constantine, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg]] (b. [[1716]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Thomas Johnson (designer)|Thomas Johnson]], English furniture maker (b. [[1714]])