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== Deaths == [[File:Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis 1778.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Benjamin Franklin]]]] [[File:Joseph Hickel (attr) Joseph II als Mitregent seiner Mutter.jpg|thumb|right|110px| [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor]]]] [[File:Adam Smith The Muir portrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Adam Smith]]]] * [[January 5]] – [[Jacob Christian Schäffer]], German inventor, botanist and professor (b. [[1718]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen]], French admiral (b. [[1712]]) * [[January 15]] – [[John Landen]], English mathematician (b. [[1719]]) * [[January 20]] – [[John Howard (prison reformer)]], English philanthropist (b. [[1726]]) * [[January 31]] – [[Thomas Lewis (Virginia politician)|Thomas Lewis]], Irish-born Virginia settler (b. [[1718]]) * [[February 5]] – [[William Cullen]], Scottish physician, chemist (b. [[1710]]) * [[February 15]]– [[Juan Albano Pereira Márquez]], godfather and tutor of Bernardo O'Higgins (b. 1728) *[[February 18]] – [[Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg|Elisabeth of Württemberg]], [[Archduchess of Austria]] (b. [[1767]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1741]]) * [[March 4]] – [[Henry Wisner]], American Continental Congressman for New York (b. [[1720]]) * [[March 12]] ** [[András Hadik]], Austro-Hungarian general (b. [[1710]]) ** [[William Grayson]], American Continental Congressman and United States Senator for Virginia (b. [[1740]]) * [[April 6]] – [[Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]] (b. [[1719]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Benjamin Franklin]], American scientist and statesman (b. [[1706]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Later Years and Death|url=http://www.benjamin-franklin-history.org/later-years-and-death/|url-status=live|access-date=September 17, 2021|website=Benjamin Franklin Historical Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160627181743/http://www.benjamin-franklin-history.org:80/later-years-and-death/ |archive-date=June 27, 2016 }}</ref> * [[April 29]] – [[Charles-Nicolas Cochin]], French artist (b. [[1715]]) * [[May 16]] – [[Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke]], English politician (b. [[1720]]) * [[May 20]] – [[Nathan Miller (Rhode Island shipbuilder)|Nathan Miller]], American Continental Congressman for Rhode Island (b. [[1743]]) * [[May 21]] – [[Thomas Warton]], English poet (b. [[1728]]) * [[May 23]] – [[George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu]] (b. [[1712]]) * [[May 26]] – [[Nathaniel Folsom]], American Continental Congressman for New Hampshire and Revolutionary War major general (b. [[1726]]) * [[May 29]] – [[Israel Putnam]], American Revolutionary War general (b. [[1718]]) * [[June 1]] – [[Theodorick Bland (congressman)|Theodorick Bland]], American Continental Congressman and U.S. Representative for Virginia (b. [[1741]]) * [[June 25]] – [[Lovisa Augusti]], Swedish [[opera singer]] (b. [[1756]]) * [[July 3]] – [[Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle]], French chemist (b. [[1736]]) * [[July 6]] – [[George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield]], British army officer (b. [[1717]]) * [[July 7]] – [[François Hemsterhuis]], Dutch philosopher (b. [[1721]]) * [[July 14]] – [[Ernst Gideon von Laudon]], Austrian field marshal (b. [[1717]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Adam Smith]], Scottish economist, philosopher (b. [[1723]]) * [[July 25]] ** [[Johann Bernhard Basedow]], German educational reformer (b. [[1723]]) ** [[William Livingston]], Governor of New Jersey (1776–1790) (b. [[1723]]) * [[August 16]] – [[David Brearley]], American Revolutionary War colonel, signer of the U.S. Constitution for New Jersey, and federal judge (b. [[1745]]) * [[September 2]] – [[Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim]], German historian, theologian (b. [[1701]]) * [[September 28]] – [[Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy]], Hungarian prince (b. [[1714]]) * [[October 7]] – [[Antoine Choquet de Lindu]], French architect (b. [[1712]]) * [[October 14]] – [[William Hooper]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence and Continental Congressman for North Carolina (b. [[1742]]) * [[October 19]] – [[Lyman Hall]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Georgia (1783–1784) (b. [[1724]]) * [[November 2]] – [[Lambert Krahe]], German artist (b. [[1712]]) * [[November 6]] – [[James Bowdoin]], American Governor of Massachusetts (b. [[1726]]) * [[November 16]] – [[Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer]], American Continental Congressman and Signer of the U.S. Constitution for Maryland (b. [[1723]]) * [[November 24]] – [[Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet]], Scottish politician and MP for Haddington Burghs on two occasions (b. [[1712]]) * [[December 16]] – [[Benjamin Andrew]], American Continental Congressman for Georgia and member of the Georgia House of Representatives (b. [[1713]]) * [[December 27]]/28 – [[Alvise Foscari]], Venetian admiral (b. [[1724]])<ref>{{DBI | last = Gullino | first = Giuseppe | title = Foscari, Alvise | volume = 49 | url = https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alvise-foscari_res-5c3d91a5-87ed-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/}}</ref> * [[December 29]] – [[Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa]], Italian ruler (b. [[1725]]) * ''date unknown'' ** [[Helen Gloag]], Scottish slave, [[Empress]] of [[Morocco]] (b. [[1750]]) ** [[Susanna Passavant]], English luxury goods retailer (b. [[1711]])
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