(d. 1783) November 17 – Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich, English peeress (d. 1794) November 23 – Antoine Guenée, French priest and Christian apologist (d. 1803) November 25 – Alexander Sumarokov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1777) December 9 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist (d. 1768) December 16 – Elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806) December 25 – George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, British army officer (d. 1790) December 27 – Pope Pius VI, born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, Italian pontiff (d. 1799) December 28 – Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi, leading German Kameralist in the 18th century (d. 1771) December 29 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1785) date unknown Giambattista Almici, Italian jurist (d. 1793) Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset, French philanthropist (d. 1773) Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner, Swiss cartographer and geologist (d. 1778) Elimelech of Lizhensk, Polish Orthodox Jewish rabbi, one of the great founding rebbes of Hasidic Judaism (d. 1787) Henry Middleton, South Carolina plantation owner, second President of the Continental Congress (d. 1784) Lewis Nicola, Irish-born officer in the American army during the American Revolutionary War (d. 1807) Anne Steele ("Theodosia"), English Baptist hymn-writer (d. 1778) Molla Panah Vagif, Azerbaijani poet (d. 1797) Deaths January 6 – Lambert Bos, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1670) January 7 – Empress Xiaohuizhang, second consort of the Qing dynasty Shunzhi Emperor of China (b. 1641) January 13 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German-born Swiss naturalist and scientific illustrator, who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings of them (b. 1647) January 30 – John Hartstonge, Irish bishop (b. 1654) February 18 – Giovanni Maria Morandi, Italian painter (b. 1622) February 21 – Jan Dobrogost Krasiński, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) (b. 1639) February 23 – Magnus Stenbock, Swedish military officer (b. 1664) March 3 – Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1641) March 5 – François de Callières, French diplomat, member of the Académie française (b. 1645) March 8 – Abraham Darby I, English ironmaster, first of that name of three generations of a Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution (b. 1678) March 19 – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist (b. 1636) April 3 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640) April 5 – Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647) April 11 – Abraham ben Saul Broda, Bohemian Talmudist (b. c.