Editing 1771 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:RevSamuelPhillips2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Samuel Phillips (reverend)|Rev. Samuel Phillips]]]]
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford]], British statesman (b. [[1710]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens]], French writer (b. [[1704]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Jean Charles de Saint-Nectaire]], French general (b. [[1685]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden]] (b. [[1710]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]], French geophysicist (b. [[1678]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Louis August le Clerc]], French-born sculptor (b. [[1688]])
* [[March 20]] – [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], French painter (b. [[1707]])
[[File:Christopher Smart.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Christopher Smart]]]]
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Christopher Smart]], English poet (b. [[1722]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury]], English philanthropist (b. [[1711]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Landgraf | first = Annette | title = The Cambridge Handel encyclopedia | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780521881920 | page=586}}</ref>
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Samuel Phillips (reverend)]], colonial American minister, 1st Pastor of the [[South Church, Andover, Massachusetts|South Church]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts|Andover]] (b. [[1690]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax]], English statesman (b. [[1716]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Chen Hongmou]], Chinese scholar and philosopher (b. [[1696]])
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[William Whitmore (British Army officer)]], British general (b. [[1714]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Thomas Gray]], English writer (b. [[1716]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[John Gambold]], British bishop (b. [[1711]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Tobias Smollett]], Scottish novelist (b. [[1721]])<ref>{{Cite news |last=MacPherson |first=Hamish |date=14 March 2021 |title=Back in the Day - Pioneering novelist who turned to writing after falling on hard times |page=11 |work=The National - Seven Days |url=https://www.thenational.scot/ |access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Charles-Nicolas d'Oultremont]], Roman Catholic bishop (b. [[1716]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Charles Lucas (politician)]], Irish apothecary (b. [[1713]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[John Bevis]], English physician, astronomer (b. [[1695]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Konrad Ernst Ackermann]], German actor (b. [[1712]])
[[File:Giambattista morgagni.gif|thumb|right|110px|[[Giovanni Battista Morgagni]]]]
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Morgagni]], Italian anatomist (b. [[1682]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Marie-Marguerite d'Youville]], Canadian saint (b. [[1701]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Claude Adrien Helvétius]], French philosopher (b. [[1715]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Henri Pitot]], Italian-born French engineer (b. [[1695]])