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=== October ===
* [[October 2]] – [[Fukuda Chiyo-ni]], Japanese ''haiku'' poet and Buddhist nun (b. [[1703]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Cluer Dicey]], English newspaper proprietor and patent medicine vendor (b. [[1715]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Amos Adams]], Anglican clergy (b. [[1728]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix d'Ollières]], Marshal of France (b. [[1711]])
* [[October 13]] – [[James Cholmondeley]], British Army officer, Member of Parliament (b. [[1708]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Gilles Joubert]], French master cabinetmaker (b. [[1689]])
* [[October 16]]
** [[Peter van Hurk]], Danish merchant (b. [[1697]])
** [[Antti Piimänen]], Finnish churchbuilder (b. [[1712]])
* [[October 18]]
** [[Michael Cresap]], Continental Army officer (b. [[1742]])
** [[Paul of the Cross]], Italian mystic (b. [[1694]])
** [[Christian August Crusius]], German philosopher and theologian (b. [[1715]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Sir John Molesworth, 5th Baronet]], British Member of Parliament (b. [[1729]])
* [[October 21]]
** [[François-Hubert Drouais]], French painter (b. [[1727]])
** [[Maria Wilhelmina von Neipperg]], Mistress of Austrian royalty (b. [[1738]])
** [[Sakai Tadamochi]], 酒井忠用 Daimyo (b. [[1723]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Peyton Randolph]], planter and public official from the Colony of Virginia (b. [[1721]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Johan Maurits Mohr]], Dutch-German pastor and astronomer (b. [[1716]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Gabriel François Venel]], French chemist (b. [[1723]])