Editing 1773 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell]], Lord Mayor of London (b. [[1711]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Jacob von Eggers]], Military engineer (b. [[1704]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Alexis Piron]], French writer (b. [[1689]])
* [[January 23]] 
** [[Manuel Pinto da Fonseca]], 68th Grandmaster of the [[Knights Hospitaller]] (b. [[1681]])
** [[Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn]], Dutch administrator of the Cape Colony (b. [[1714]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; King [[Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia]] (b. [[1701]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Luigi Vanvitelli]], Italian architect (b. [[1700]])
[[File:Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.PNG|thumb|right|110px|[[Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield]]]]
* [[March 24]] 
** [[Stephen Leake]], English numismatist, officer of arms at the College of Arms in London (b. [[1702]])
** [[Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield]], English statesman and man of letters (b. [[1694]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben]], German noble (b. [[1715]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Ali Bey Al-Kabir]], Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b. [[1728]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Alban Butler]], English Catholic priest, writer (b. [[1710]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[John Wayles]], American lawyer and planter (b. [[1715]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Jorge Juan y Santacilia]], Spanish geodesist (b. [[1713]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Mentewab]], dowager Empress of [[Ethiopia]] (b. c. [[1700–1709|1706]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Francisco José Freire]], Portuguese historian, philologist (b. [[1719]])
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Johann Joachim Quantz]], German flutist, composer (b. [[1697]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[George Edwards (naturalist)|George Edwards]], English ornithologist and naturalist (b. [[1694]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Axel Löwen]], Swedish duke (b. [[1686]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Stanisław Konarski]], Polish writer (b. [[1700]])
* [[August 19]]
** [[Burkat Shudi]], English harpsichord maker (b. [[1702]])
** [[Francesco Zahra]], Maltese painter (b. [[1710]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Enrique Florez]], Spanish historian (b. [[1701]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Johan Ernst Gunnerus]], Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. [[1718]])
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Septimanie d'Egmont]], French [[salon (gathering)|salonist]] (b. [[1740]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Philippe de La Guêpière]], French architect (b. [[1725]])
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[John Glas]], Scottish minister (b. [[1695]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine]], French royal (b. [[1714]])
[[File:FriedrichWilhelmvonSeydlitz.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz]]]]
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz]], Prussian general (b. [[1721]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[John Hawkesworth (book editor)|John Hawkesworth]], English writer (b. c. [[1715]])
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster]], Irish politician (b. [[1722]])

=== Full date unknown ===
* [[Bjarni Halldórsson]],  Icelandic legal figure and theologian (b. c. [[1703]])<ref>Jón Espólín: Íslands Árbækur í sögu-formi. X. deild, prentað á kostnað ens íslenzka Bókmenntafélags, Kaupmannahöfn 1848. Blaðsíða 34. (Ljósprentuð 2. útgáfa 1947.)</ref>