Editing 1764 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Furietti.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti]]]]
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1685]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke]], [[Lord Chancellor|Lord Chancellor of England]] (b. [[1690]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Frederick Augustus Rutowsky]], German general (b. [[1702]])
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]], English astronomer (b. c.[[1696]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (admiral)|Mikhail Mikhalovich Golitsyn]], Russian naval officer (b. [[1684]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Pietro Locatelli]], Italian composer (b. [[1695]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Marco Benefial]], Italian painter (b. [[1684]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Madame de Pompadour]], mistress of King [[Louis XV of France]] (b. [[1721]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Alden R. |title=Searching for the Elusive Madame de Pompadour |journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies |date=2003 |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=95 |doi=10.1353/ecs.2003.0062 |jstor=25098031 |s2cid=144477737 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25098031 |issn=0013-2586}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Johann Mattheson]], German composer (b. [[1681]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Francesco Algarotti]], Italian philosopher (b. [[1712]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Ralph Allen]], English businessman and politician (b. [[1693]])
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath]], English politician (b. [[1683]])
[[File:Ivan VI Antonovich (Oranienbaum).jpg|thumb|110px|Tsar [[Ivan VI of Russia]]]]
* [[July 16]] &ndash; Tsar [[Ivan VI of Russia]] (murdered in prison) (b. [[1740]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Gilbert Tennent]], Irish-born religious leader (b. [[1703]])
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Nathaniel Bliss]], English [[Astronomer Royal]] (b. [[1700]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]], French composer (b. [[1683]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Robert Dodsley]], English writer (b. [[1703]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Dodsley|title=The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5SKgkoYll0C&pg=PA20|date=22 January 2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52208-3|pages=20}}</ref>
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro]], Spanish scholar (b. [[1676]])
[[File:4th Duke of Devonshire after Hudson.jpg|thumb|110px|[[William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire]]]]
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire]], [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (b. [[1720]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of William Cavendish Duke of Devonshire - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-cavendish-duke-of-devonshire |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=19 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Jean-Marie Leclair]], French composer and violinist (murdered) (b. [[1697]])
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte]], French naval officer (b. [[1683]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[William Hogarth]], English painter and satirist (b. [[1697]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Christian Goldbach]], Prussian mathematician (b. [[1690]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Menshikov]], Russian army officer (b. [[1714]])