Editing 1783 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Johann Jakob Bodmer]], Swiss author (b. [[1698]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[William Tans'ur]], English hymnist (b. [[1706]])
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[William Alexander, Lord Stirling]], American major-general in the [[Continental Army]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]] (b. [[1726]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Jeanne Quinault]], French actress, playwright (b. [[1699]])
[[File:Lancelot ('Capability') Brown by Nathaniel Dance, (later Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt) cropped.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Capability Brown]]]]
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Capability Brown]], English landscape gardener (b. [[1716]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[James Nares (composer)|James Nares]], English composer of mostly sacred vocal works (b. [[1715]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Francisco Salzillo]], Spanish sculptor (b. [[1707]])
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Frederick Cornwallis]], Archbishop of Canterbury (b. [[1713]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Charles Carroll (barrister)|Charles Carroll]], American lawyer, delegate to the Continental Congress (b. [[1723]])
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Anna Rosina de Gasc]], German portrait painter (b. [[1713]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[William Hunter (anatomist)|William Hunter]], Scottish anatomist (b. [[1718]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Nikita Ivanovich Panin]], Russian statesman (b. [[1718]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Ignaz Holzbauer]], German composer (b. [[1711]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Benedict Joseph Labre]], French Catholic saint (b. [[1745]])
** [[Christian Mayer (astronomer)|Christian Mayer]], Czech astronomer (b. [[1719]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Juliane Reichardt]], German-born Bohemian pianist, singer and composer (b. [[1752]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[James Otis, Jr.|James Otis]], American lawyer, patriot (b. [[1725]])
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Charles Spalding]], Scottish inventor and underwater diver, killed in diving bell accident (b. [[1738]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[James Grenville]], British Member of Parliament (b. [[1715]])
[[File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Leonhard Euler]]]]
* [[September 18]]
** [[Leonhard Euler]], Swiss mathematician, physicist (b. [[1707]])
** [[Benjamin Kennicott]], English churchman, Hebrew scholar (b. [[1718]])
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Marguerite Gourdan]], French procurer (b. c. [[1730]])  
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown]], Irish politician (b. [[1701]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]], French mathematician (b. [[1717]])
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Carl Linnaeus the Younger]], Swedish naturalist (b. [[1741]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Charles Collé]], French dramatist (b. [[1709]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[John Hanson]], American [[President of the Continental Congress]] (b. [[1721]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Yoriyuki Arima]], Japanese mathematician (b. [[1714]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin]], Swedish astronomer (b. [[1717]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi]], first ruler of [[Oman]] of the [[Al Said]] dynasty (b. [[1710]])
* [[December 16]] 
** [[Johann Adolph Hasse]], German composer (b. [[1699]])
** [[William James (naval commander)|William James]], British naval commander (b. [[1720]])
* Date unknown:
** [[Thomas Calcraft]], English politician and Lieutenant-Colonel (b. [[1738]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=CALCRAFT, Thomas (1738-83), of Ancaster, Lincs. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/calcraft-thomas-1738-83 |access-date=2021-09-28 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref>
** [[Adolf Friedrich von Reinhard]], jurist and publicist (b. [[1726]])<ref>[[Rudolf Vierhaus]], ed., ''Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie'', p. 289.</ref>