Editing 1785 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Baldassare Galuppi, Venetian School of the 1750s.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Baldassare Galuppi]]]]
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Baldassare Galuppi]], Italian composer (b. [[1706]])<ref>Arnold, Denis. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/962457 "Galuppi's Religious Music"], ''[[The Musical Times]]'', 1 January 1985, pp. 45–47 and 49–50 {{subscription required}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Haym Salomon]], Polish-Jewish American financier of the [[American Revolution]] (b. [[1740]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Toup]], English classical scholar, critic (b. [[1713]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Matthew Stewart (mathematician)|Matthew Stewart]], Scottish mathematician (b. [[1717]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet]] (b. [[1722]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Barbara Erni]], Liechtenstein confidence trickster (b. [[1743]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Locatelli (opera director)|Giovanni Battista Locatelli]], Italian opera director (b. [[1713]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[William Whitehead (poet)|William Whitehead]], English writer (b. [[1715]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Johan Samuel Augustin]], German-Danish astronomical writer, civil servant (b. [[1715]])
* [[May 8]]
** [[Étienne François, duc de Choiseul]], French statesman (b. [[1719]])
** [[Pietro Longhi]], Venetian painter (b. [[1701]])
* [[June 2]] 
** [[Jean Paul de Gua de Malves]], French mathematician (b. [[1713]])
** [[Gottfried August Homilius]], German composer, cantor and organist (b. [[1714]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|year=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge|page=[https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/392 392]| isbn=9780674372993 |editor=Don Michael Randel|quote=Homilius, Gottfried August|url=https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand |url-access=registration}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[James Oglethorpe]], English general, founder of the state of Georgia (b. [[1696]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Anne Poulett]], British politician (b. [[1711]])
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg]] (b. [[1711]])
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[William Strahan (publisher)|William Strahan]], British politician (b. [[1715]])
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais]], French jurist on the so-called "Brittany affair" (b. [[1701]])
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Stephen Hopkins (politician)|Stephen Hopkins]], Founding Father of the United States (b. [[1707]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland]], British duchess (b. [[1715]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Trumbull]], Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. [[1710]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville]], British soldier, politician (b. [[1716]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Pigalle]], French sculptor (b. [[1714]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Pietro Chiari]], Italian playwright (b. [[1712]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain]], Queen consort of Sardinia (b. [[1729]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Johann Jakob Moser]], German jurist (b. [[1701]])
* [[October 4]]
** [[David Brearley]], delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. [[1703]])
** [[Alexander Runciman]], Scottish painter (b. [[1736]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash;  [[Joaquín Ibarra]], Spanish printer (b. [[1725]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[César Gabriel de Choiseul]], French officer (b. [[1712]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans]], French soldier, writer (b. [[1725]])
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Bernard de Bury]], French composer (b. [[1720]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[James Wright (governor)|James Wright]], Governor of Georgia (b. [[1716]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Richard Glover (poet)|Richard Glover]], English poet (b. [[1712]])
[[File:Kitty Clive in Philida.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Kitty Clive]]]]
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Kitty Clive]], English actress, playwright (b. [[1711]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Kalman Burnim|author2=Edward A. Langhans|author3=Philip H. Highfill|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800.|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|year=1975|page=357}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Johan Herman Wessel]], Norwegian author (b. [[1742]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Faustina Pignatelli]], Italian mathematician  (b. [[1705]])