Editing 1788 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[January 14]] – [[François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse]], French admiral (b. [[1722]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Charles Edward Stuart]], claimant to the British throne (b. [[1720]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Maurice Quentin de La Tour]], French portrait painter (b. [[1704]])
* [[February 18]] – [[John Whitehurst]], English clockmaker, scientist (b. [[1713]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Johann Georg Palitzsch]], German astronomer (b. [[1723]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Thomas Cushing]], American Continental Congressman (b. [[1725]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Salomon Gessner]], Swiss painter and newspaper publisher (b. [[1730]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Charles Wesley]], English co-founder (with his brother, [[John Wesley]]) of the religious movement now known as [[Methodism]] (b. [[1707]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Catharina Elisabet Grubb]], Finnish industrialist (b. [[1721]]) 
* [[April 12]] – [[Carlo Antonio Campioni]], French-born composer (b. [[1719]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Giuseppe Bonno]], Austrian composer (b. [[1711]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]], French naturalist (b. [[1707]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]], Italian-born physician, naturalist (b. [[1723]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Dorothea Biehl]], Danish writer (b. [[1731]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Adam Gib]], Scottish religious leader (b. [[1714]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Johann Georg Hamann]], German philosopher (b. [[1730]])
* [[July 3]] – [[François Jacquier]], French Franciscan mathematician, physicist (b. [[1711]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Kajetan Sołtyk]], Polish Catholic priest (b. [[1715]])
[[File:Thomas Gainsborough by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Gainsborough]]]]
* [[August 2]] – [[Thomas Gainsborough]], British painter (b. [[1727]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Armand de Vignerot du Plessis]], French soldier, diplomat and statesman (b. [[1696]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Tanuma Okitsugu]], Japanese government official (b. [[1719]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull]], English noble (b. [[1721]]) 
* [[September 25]] – [[Thomas Missing]], English politician (b. [[1710]]) 
* [[October 13]] – [[Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent]], Irish politician, poet (b. [[1709]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Samuel Greig]], Scottish-Russian Admiral (b. [[1736]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Thomas Estcourt Cresswell]], British politician (b. [[1712]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Samuel Martin (Secretary to the Treasury)]], British politician (b. [[1714]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Infante Gabriel of Spain]] (b. [[1752]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Jonathan Shipley]], English bishop, politician (b. [[1714]])
** [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute]], French astronomer (b. [[1723]])
[[File:Charles III of Spain high resolution.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles III of Spain]]]]
* [[December 14]] 
** [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]], German composer (b. [[1714]])
** King [[Charles III of Spain]] (b. [[1716]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Juan Bautista de Anza]], Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico (b. [[1736]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Percivall Pott]], English surgeon (b. [[1714]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Francesco Zuccarelli]], Italian painter, elected to the [[Venetian Academy]] (b. [[1702]])
* ''Date unknown''
** [[Lucia Galeazzi Galvani]], Italian scientist (b. [[1743]])
** [[Martha Wray]], English businesswoman and medical manufacturer (b. [[1739]])