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== Deaths == [[File:Captainjamescookportrait.jpg|110px|thumb|[[James Cook]]]] [[File:Kazimierz Pułaski.PNG|thumb|right|110px|[[Casimir Pulaski|Kazimierz Pułaski]]]] * [[January 3]] – [[Claude Bourgelat]], French veterinary surgeon (b. [[1712]]) * [[January 20]] – [[David Garrick]], English actor (b. [[1717]]) * [[January 22]] – [[Jeremiah Dixon]], English surveyor, astronomer (b. [[1733]]) * [[February 7]] – [[William Boyce (composer)|William Boyce]], English composer (b. [[1711]]) * [[February 14]] – [[James Cook]], British naval captain and explorer (b. [[1728]]) * [[February 24]] – [[Paul Daniel Longolius]], German encyclopedist (b. [[1704]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Martha Ray]] (b. [[1742]]), British singer and mistress of John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich (murdered) (b. [[1742]]) * [[April 9]] – [[Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa]], Spanish military officer (b. [[1717]]) * [[April 24]] – [[Eleazar Wheelock]], American founder of Dartmouth College (b. [[1711]]) * [[May 1]] – [[Sarah Clayton]], English industrialist (b. [[1712]]) * [[May 3]] – [[John Winthrop (educator)|John Winthrop]], American astronomer (b. [[1714]]) * [[June 7]] – [[William Warburton]], English critic, Bishop of Gloucester (b. [[1698]]) * [[June 10]] – [[Jane Gomeldon]], English writer, poet and adventurer (b. [[1720]]) * [[June 16]] – [[Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet]], Colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay (b. [[1712]]) * [[June 23]] – Ras [[Mikael Sehul]], Enderase of [[Ethiopia]] (b. [[1692]]) * [[June 28]] – [[Martha Daniell Logan]], American botanist (b. [[1704]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Anton Raphael Mengs]], German-Bohemian painter (b. [[1728]]) * [[July 21]] – [[Caleb Fleming]], English dissenting minister, polemicist (b. [[1698]]) * [[August 26]] – [[Henrika Juliana von Liewen]], Swedish political salonnière (b. [[1709]]) * [[September 12]] – [[Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple]], English politician (b. [[1711]]) * [[October 11]] – [[Kazimierz Pułaski]], veteran commander of Polish, Russian, and American troops (b. [[1745]]) * [[November 16]] – [[Pehr Kalm]], Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. [[1716]]) * [[December 6]] – [[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]], French painter (b. [[1699]]) * [[December 8]] – [[Nathan Alcock]], English physician (b. [[1707]]) * [[December 16]] – [[Emperor Go-Momozono]] of Japan (b. [[1758]]) * [[December 17]] – [[Giuseppe Carcani]], Italian composer (b. [[1703]]) * [[December 23]] – [[Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol]], British admiral and politician (b. [[1724]]) === unknown date === * [[Giuseppe Bonici]], Maltese architect, military engineer (b. [[1707]]) * [[Johann Joseph Gassner]], German priest (b. [[1727]])
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