Editing 1766 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[James Francis Edward Stuart]], ''The Old Pretender'' to the British throne (b. [[1688]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Deborah C. Fisher|title=Princes of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YrUIAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2003-7|page=75}}</ref>
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Thomas Birch]], English historian (b. [[1705]])
* [[January 13]] &ndash; King [[Frederick V of Denmark]] (b. [[1723]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3BYAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Grolier Incorporated|isbn=978-0-7172-0131-0|page=27}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni]], French architect and painter (b. [[1695]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Louise Pelletier|title=Architecture in Words: Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dMZ9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA199|date=27 September 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-15929-1|pages=199}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[James Quin]], English actor (b. [[1693]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Count Leopold Joseph von Daun]], Austrian field marshal (b. [[1705]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Stanisław Leszczyński]], King of Poland (b. [[1677]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Wojciech Krzyżanowski|title=Stanislaus Leszczynski: e. poln. Herrscher auf dt. Boden|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7fm5AAAAIAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Erdmann|isbn=978-3-7711-0278-4|pages=65–66|language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Ercole Lelli]], Italian painter of the late-Baroque (b. [[1702]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Jane Colden]], American botanist (b. [[1724]]) 
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[John Taylor (classical scholar)|John Taylor]], English classical scholar (b. [[1704]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Tiberius Hemsterhuis]], Dutch philologist, critic (b. [[1685]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Jean Astruc]], French physician, scholar (b. [[1684]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Samuel Chandler]], English non-conformist minister (b. [[1693]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Malhar Rao Holkar]], Indian nobleman (b. [[1693]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Hedvig Strömfelt]], Swedish psalm writer (b. [[1723]]) 
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Isaac Norris (statesman)]], American politician (b. [[1701]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Carlo Zimech]], Maltese priest and painter (b. [[1696]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Schiavone|first1=Michael J.|title=Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. II G-Z|date=2009|publisher=Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza|location=[[Pietà, Malta|Pietà]]|isbn=9789993291329|page=1711}}</ref>
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles]], French soldier (b. [[1678]])
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Mayhew]], American minister, patriot (b. [[1720]])
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth Farnese]], queen of [[Philip V of Spain]] (b. [[1692]])<ref>{{cite book|title=International Journal of Musicology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4wgwAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=P. Lang|page=104| isbn=978-3-631-35328-8 }}</ref>
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[František Maxmilián Kaňka]], Czech architect (b. [[1674]])
* [[July 17]] 
** [[Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit)|Giuseppe Castiglione]], Italian missionary to China (b. [[1688]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Cécile Beurdeley|author2=Michel Beurdeley|title=Giuseppe Castiglione: A Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yD04AQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Lund Humphries|isbn=978-0-8048-0987-0|page=59}}</ref>
** [[Samuel Finley]], American clergyman and educator (b. [[1715]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Archibald Bower]], Scottish historian (b. [[1686]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Heath]], English classical scholar (b. [[1704]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[John Brown (essayist)|John Brown]], English divine and author (b. [[1715]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Jean-Marc Nattier]], French painter (b. [[1685]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer]], Dutch composer (b. [[1692]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Johann Christoph Gottsched]], German writer (b. [[1700]])