autobiographer (b. Saukenuk village, now Rock Island, Illinois) (d. 1838) Marianna Malińska, Polish ballerina (d. 1797) Deaths January 7 – Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University (b. 1703) January 22 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist, geologist (b. 1719) February 15 – Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov, Russian noble, politician (b. 1714) March 7 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680) March 13 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (b. 1731) (tuberculosis) April 5 – Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, countess by marriage of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1685) April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer (b. 1715) May 26 – Prince Frederick Henry of Prussia (b. 1747) (smallpox) May 28 – Maria Josepha of Bavaria (b. 1739) (smallpox) June 12 – Lucrezia Elena Cevoli, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1685) June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681) July 13 – John Quincy, American Soldier (b. 1689) July 19 – John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford (b. 1701) September 4 – Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725) October 15 – Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (b. 1751) (smallpox) October 16 – Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, Russian military leader (b. 1683) October 26 – Harry Pulteney, British politician (b. 1686) November 5 – John Reading (New Jersey governor), Colonial Governor of New Jersey (b. 1686) December 1 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710) December 22 Jacques Bridaine, French Catholic preacher and missionary (b. 1701) John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713) December 28 – Emer de Vattel, Swiss philosopher (b. 1714) date unknown'' Firmin Abauzit, French scientist (b. 1679) Blas María de la Garza Falcón, Spanish settler of Texas (b. 1712) Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, French mathematician (b. 1724) Ana III of Matamba, African monarch References Further reading