Editing 1750 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Ivan Trubetskoy]], Russian field marshal (b. [[1667]])
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl]], Bavarian politician (b. [[1675]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Ludovico Antonio Muratori]], Italian historian and scholar (b. [[1672]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Albert Schultens]], Dutch philologist (b. [[1686]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Sophia Schröder]], Swedish soprano (b. [[1712]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset]] (b. [[1684]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Aaron Hill (writer)|Aaron Hill]], English writer (b. [[1685]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Jan Frans van Bredael]], Flemish painter (b. [[1686]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Domenico Montagnana]], Italian luthier (b. [[1686]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[James Jurin]], British mathematician, doctor (b. [[1684]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington]], British Army general (b. [[1701]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[John Willison]], Scottish minister, writer (b. [[1680]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Georg Engelhard Schröder]], Swedish artist (b. [[1684]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Emperor Sakuramachi]] of Japan (b. [[1720]])
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Marguerite de Launay, baronne de Staal]], French author (b. [[1684]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Vasily Tatishchev]], Russian statesman, ethnographer (b. [[1686]])
[[File:Johann Sebastian Bach.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Johann Sebastian Bach]]]]
* [[July 28]]
** [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], German composer (b. [[1685]])
** [[Conyers Middleton]], English minister (b. [[1683]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; King [[John V of Portugal]] (b. [[1689]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond]], English aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron  (b. [[1701]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Rachel Ruysch]], Dutch painter (b. [[1664]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Charles Theodore Pachelbel]], German composer (b. [[1690]])
* [[October 3]]
** [[Georg Matthias Monn]], Austrian composer (b. [[1717]])
** [[James MacLaine]], Irish highwayman (b. [[1724]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Sylvius Leopold Weiss]], German composer, lutenist (b. [[1687]])
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff]], Dutch [[Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies]] (b. [[1705]])
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]], German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. [[1671]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Philemon Ewer]], English shipbuilder (b. [[1702]])
* [[December 16]] 
** [[Nasir Jang Mir Ahmad]], son of Turkic noble Nizam-ul-Mulk (b. [[1712]])
** [[Nasir Jung]], Head of Hyderabad State (b. [[1712]])