1687) June 15 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694) June 18 Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born Austrian physician (b. 1700) Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge, philosopher (b. 1706) June 22 – François-Vincent Toussaint, French writer most famous for Les Mœurs (The Manners) (b. 1715) August 31 – William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695) September 30 – James Brindley, English canal builder (b. 1716) October 7 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher, abolitionist (b. 1720) October 8 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist, composer (b. 1711) October 14 – Benjamin Green, Canadian merchant and judge (b. 1713) October 16 – Ahmad Shah Durrani, Afghan founder of the Durrani Empire (cancer) (b. 1724) October 19 – Andrea Belli, Maltese architect, businessman (b. 1703) November 10 – Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724) November 18 – Madhavrao I, ruler of India (b. 1745) November 19 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711) December 4 – Dov Ber of Mezeritch, the Great Maggid, a preacher and founder of Hasidism. December 7 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer, scholar (b. 1695) Date unknown – Panna Cinka, Hungarian violinist (b. 1711) References Further reading Leap years in the Gregorian calendar