Editing 1765 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Teresia Constantia Phillips]], British autobiographer  (b. [[1709]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie]], Director-general of the [[Louisiana (New France)|Colony of Louisiana]] (b. [[1726]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Elisabetta de Gambarini]], English composer (b. [[1730]]) 
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[William Stukeley]], English archaeologist (b. [[1687]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Arthur Dobbs]], Irish politician and governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina (b. [[1689]])
[[File:M.V. Lomonosov by L.Miropolskiy after G.C.Prenner (1787, RAN).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Mikhail Lomonosov]]]]
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Edward Young]], English poet (b. [[1683]])
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Lewis Morris (1701–1765)]], Welsh hydrographer (b. [[1701]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], Russian author and scientist (b. [[1711]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Abigail Williams (Salem witch trials)|Abigail Williams]], American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. [[1681]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Alexis Clairaut]], French mathematician (b. [[1713]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Nachman of Horodenka]], Hasidic rabbi<ref>{{cite web|url=https://toldot.com/history/nahmanIzGrodenki.html|website=toldot.com|date=July 2, 2018 |language=ru|script-title=ru:Раби Нахман ИЗ ГОРОДЕНКИ|trans-title=Rabbi Nachman from Horodenka|access-date=30 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Charles-André van Loo]], French painter (b. [[1705]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Philip, Duke of Parma]], Spanish prince (b. [[1720]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Timothy Cutler]], rector of Yale College (b. [[1684]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1708]])
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Henry Bouquet]], Swiss-born British army officer (b. [[1719]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe]], French explorer of North America (b. [[1683]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset]], Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. [[1688]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Paolo Panini]], Italian painter and architect (b. [[1691]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Prince William, Duke of Cumberland]], English military leader (b. [[1721]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[George Glas]], Scottish merchant and adventurer (b. [[1725]])
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Lord John Sackville]], English cricketer (b. [[1713]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Peter Frederick Haldimand]], Swiss-born military officer and surveyor
* [[December 20]] – [[Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765)|Louis, Dauphin of France]], heir apparent to the French throne (b. [[1729]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Prokop Diviš]], Czech scientist (b. [[1698]])