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== Deaths == [[File:Giovanni Antonio Canal.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Canaletto]]]] [[File:Johann Joachim Winckelmann (Raphael Mengs after 1755).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]]]] [[File:Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle]]]] * [[January 20]] – [[Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet]] (b. [[1702]]) * [[February 1]] – [[Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet]], British cavalry officer (b. [[1685]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Robert Smith (mathematician)|Robert Smith]], English mathematician (b. [[1689]]) * [[February 8]] – [[George Dance the Elder]], British architect (b. [[1695]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Arthur Onslow]], English politician (b. [[1691]]) * [[February 29]] – [[John Mitchell (geographer)|John Mitchell]], colonial American physician and botanist (b. [[1711]]) * [[March 1]] – [[Hermann Samuel Reimarus]], German philosopher, writer (b. [[1694]]) * [[March 3]] ** [[Francis Fauquier]], English statesman and Royal Governor of Virginia since 1758 (b. [[1703]]) ** [[Nicola Porpora]], Italian composer (b. [[1686]]) * [[March 11]] – [[Giovanni Battista Vaccarini]], Italian architect (b. [[1702]]) * [[March 18]] – [[Laurence Sterne]], Irish writer (b. [[1713]]) * [[April 9]] – [[Sarah Fielding]], English writer (b. [[1710]]) * [[April 19]] – [[Canaletto]], Italian artist (b. [[1697]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Georg Brandt]], Swedish chemist, mineralogist (b. [[1694]]) * [[May 30]] – [[Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford]], British earl and politician (b. [[1715]]) * [[June 8]] – [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]], German classical scholar, archaeologist (b. [[1717]]) * [[June 15]] – [[James Short (mathematician)|James Short]], Scottish mathematician (b. [[1710]]) * [[June 19]] – [[Benjamin Tasker, Sr.|Benjamin Tasker]], Provincial Governor of Maryland (b. [[1690]]) * [[June 28]] – [[George Hadley]], English lawyer and amateur meteorologist (b. [[1685]]) * [[July 6]] – [[Conrad Beissel]], German-born American religious leader (b. [[1691]]) * [[July 11]] – [[JosΓ© de Nebra]], Spanish composer (b. [[1702]]) * [[July 24]] – [[Nathaniel Lardner]], English theologian (b. [[1684]]) * [[August 3]] – [[Thomas Secker]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1693]]) * [[August 17]] – [[Vasily Trediakovsky]], Russian poet (b. [[1703]]) * [[September 2]] – [[Antoine Deparcieux]], French mathematician (b. [[1703]]) * [[September 11]] – [[Joseph-Nicolas Delisle]], French astronomer (b. [[1688]]) * [[October 1]] – [[Robert Simson]], Scottish mathematician (b. [[1687]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Pierre Simon Fournier]], French typographer (b. [[1712]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]] (b. [[1691]]) * [[October 28]] – [[Michel Blavet]], French flutist (b. [[1700]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Francesco Maria Veracini]], Italian composer (b. [[1690]]) * [[November 14]] – [[John Bristow]], English merchant, politician (b. [[1701]]) * [[November 16]] – [[Hans von Lehwaldt]], German general (b. [[1685]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle]], Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. [[1693]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/thomas-pelham-holles-1st-duke-of-newcastle |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=19 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> * [[December 8]] – [[Jean Denis Attiret]], French Jesuit missionary, painter (b. [[1702]]) * [[December 14]] – [[Ulla Tessin]], Swedish countess (b. [[1711]]) * [[December 20]] – [[Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni]], Italian poet (b. [[1692]]) * ''date unknown'' – [[Elsie Marley]], English [[Alewife (trade)|alewife]] (b. [[1713]])
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