Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, writer and patriot (d. 1776) June 15 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809) June 30 – Paul Barras, French politician (d. 1829) September 9 – Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808) September 13 – Oliver Evans, American inventor, engineer and businessman (d. 1819) October 2 – Hannah Adams, American author (d. 1831) November 1 – Henriette von Crayen, German salonnière (d. 1832) November 2 – Marie-Antoinette, Queen Consort of France (d. 1793) November 12 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813) November 17 Louis XVIII of France, brother of King Louis XVI (d. 1824) Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1828) December 3 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter from Rhode Island (d. 1828) date unknown Maria Elizabetha Jacson, British botanist (d. 1829) Yelena Shidyanskaya, Russian commander (d. 1849) Deaths February 10 – Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689) February 11 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (b. 1675) March 2 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (b. 1675) March 7 – Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man (b. 1663) March 10 – Johann David Köhler, German historian (b. 1684) April 6 – Richard Rawlinson, English minister, antiquarian (b. 1690) April 30 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French painter (b. 1686) June 26 – Iyasu II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. c. 1723) July 9 – Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu, Canadian officer during the Seven Years' War (b. 1711) July 13 – Edward Braddock, British general (b. c. 1695) July 14 – Jacques-Nompar III de Caumont, duc de La Force, French nobleman (b. 1714) August 13 – Francesco Durante, Italian composer (b. 1684) September 2 – Princess Marie Zéphyrine of France, sister of Louis XVI (b. 1750) September 8 Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, Canadian military commander (b. 1701) Hendrick Theyanoguin, Mohawk Council leader killed in the Battle of Lake George. Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715) September 9 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694) September 13 – Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye, French-Canadian explorer (b. 1714) October 4 – Georg Christian, Fürst von Lobkowitz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1686) October 16 – Gerard Majella, Italian Roman Catholic lay brother and saint (b. 1725) October 22 – Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694) October 28 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689) November 25 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687)