Editing 1757 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Queen Sophie Dorothea of Prussia.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Sophia Dorothea of Hanover]]]]
[[File:OsmanIII.jpg|thumb|right|110px|Sultan [[Osman III]]]]
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle]], French scientist, man of letters (b. [[1657]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Thomas Ruddiman]], Scottish classical scholar (b. [[1664]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton]], English diplomat (b. [[1678]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Edward Moore (dramatist)|Edward Moore]], English writer (b. [[1712]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Restoration and 18th-Century Drama |date=November 1980 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-16422-6 |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OD9dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Thomas Blackwell (scholar)|Thomas Blackwell]], Scottish classical scholar (b. [[1701]])
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Galli Bibiena]], Italian architect/painter (b. [[1696]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[John Byng]], British admiral (executed) (b. [[1704]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Johann Stamitz]], Czech-born composer (b. [[1717]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Robert-François Damiens]], French domestic servant, executed for the attempted assassination of Louis XV of France (b. [[1715]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Spencer Phips]], Acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. [[1685]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Paul Alphéran de Bussan]], French bishop (b. [[1684]])
* [[May 6]]
** [[Maximilian Ulysses Browne|Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne]], Austrian field marshal (b. [[1705]])
** [[Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton]], British politician (b. [[1683]])
** [[Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin]], Prussian field marshal (b. [[1684]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Sophia Dorothea of Hanover]], queen consort of Frederick William I (b. [[1687]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Siraj ud-Daulah]], the last independent ruler of [[Bengal]] of undivided India (b. [[1733]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Daniel Parke Custis]], American planter (b. [[1711]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Domenico Scarlatti]], Italian composer (b. [[1685]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (b. [[1712]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Aaron Cleveland]], American clergyman (b. [[1715]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[David Hartley (philosopher)|David Hartley]], English philosopher (b. [[1705]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Bulleh Shah]], Sufi poet (b. [[1680]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Aaron Burr Sr.]], President of Princeton University (b. [[1716]])
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Aloysius Centurione]], Italian Jesuit (b. [[1686]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur]], French scientist (b. [[1683]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Antoine Augustin Calmet]], French theologian (b. [[1672]])
* [[October 30]] 
** [[Osman III]], Ottoman Sultan (b. [[1699]])
** [[Edward Vernon]], English naval officer (b. [[1684]])
* [[December 11]]
** [[Colley Cibber]], English poet laureate, actor-manager (b. [[1671]])
** [[Edmund Curll]], English bookseller, publisher (b. [[1675]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Levan Abashidze (died 1757)|Levan Abashidze]], Georgian politician
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[John Dyer]], Welsh poet (b. [[1699]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Princess Caroline of Great Britain]], fourth child and third daughter of George II (b. [[1713]])
* Date unknown &ndash; [[Rika Maja]], Sami shaman  (b. [[1661]])