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== Deaths == * [[January 4]] – [[Stephen Hales]], English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (b. [[1677]]) * [[January 7]] – [[Darkey Kelly]], Irish madam and serial murderer, executed by burning [[File:Admiral Edward Boscawen (1711-1761) RMG BHC2565.tiff|thumb|right|110px|[[Edward Boscawen]]]] * [[January 10]] – [[Edward Boscawen]], British admiral (b. [[1711]]) * [[January 26]] – [[Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle]], French general and statesman (b. [[1684]]) * [[February 1]] – [[Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix]], French historian (b. [[1682]]) * [[February 6]] – [[Clemens August of Bavaria]], Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (b. [[1700]]) * [[April 2]] – [[William Sawyer (cricketer)|William Sawyer]], English cricketer (b. [[1712]]) * [[April 4]] – [[Theodore Gardelle]], Swiss painter, enameler (b. [[1722]]) * [[April 9]] – [[William Law]], English minister (b. [[1686]]) * [[April 15]] ** [[Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll]], Scottish politician (b. [[1682]]) ** [[William Oldys]], English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. [[1696]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Thomas Bayes]], English mathematician (b. c. [[1702]]) * [[May 1]] – [[August Friedrich Müller]], German legal scholar, logician (b. [[1684]]) * [[May 10]] ** [[James Colebrooke]], British baronet (b. [[1722]]) ** [[Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe]], British baron, politician (b. [[1716]]) * [[May 14]] – [[Thomas Simpson]], English mathematician (b. [[1710]]) * [[June 2]] – [[Jonas Alströmer]], Swedish industrialist (b. [[1685]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen]], Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. [[1713]]) * [[July 4]] – [[Samuel Richardson]], English writer (b. [[1689]]) * [[July 9]] – [[Carl Gotthelf Gerlach]], German organist (b. [[1704]]) * [[July 13]] – [[Tokugawa Ieshige]], Japanese shōgun (b. [[1712]]) * [[July 16]] – [[Jacob Fortling]], Danish sculptor (b. [[1711]]) * [[August 3]] – [[Johann Matthias Gesner]], German classical scholar (b. [[1691]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Bernard Forest de Bélidor]], French engineer (b. [[1698]]) * [[October 22]] – [[Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden]] (b. [[1702]]) * [[October 25]] – [[Gioacchino Conti]], Italian opera singer (b. [[1714]]) * [[November 21]] – [[Charles Holmes (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Holmes]], British Royal Navy admiral (b. [[1711]]) * [[November 30]] – [[John Dollond]], English optician (b. [[1706]]) * [[December 9]] – [[Tarabai]], Indian queen regent of the Maratha Empire (b. [[1675]]) * [[December 15]] – [[John Willes (judge)]], English lawyer (b. [[1685]]) * [[December 23]] – [[Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell]], Scottish Jacobite spy (b. c. [[1725]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck]], German noble (b. [[1685]]) * ''date unknown'' – [[Aldegonde Jeanne Pauli]], banker in the Austrian Netherlands (b. [[1685]])
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