British politician (d. 1858) Matthew Arbuckle, United States soldier (d. 1851) December 29 Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, German philosopher (d. 1841) Johann Simon Hermstedt, German musician (d. 1846) Undated Sardar Fath 'Ali Khan, Wazir-i-azam of Kabul (d. 1818) Anna Maria Walker, Scottish botanist (d. 1852) Sara Oust, Norwegian lay minister (d. 1822) Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, Haitian de facto politician (d. 1843) Deaths January 3 – Paul Jacques Malouin, French chemist (b. 1701) January 10 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707) February 18 – Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715) February 20 – Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1711) February 27 – Alexander Murray of Elibank, fourth son of Alexander Murray (b. 1712) March 5 – Thomas Arne, English composer of Rule, Britannia! (b. 1710) March 7 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (b. 1720) March 13 – Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701) April 8 – Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch businessman (b. 1702) April 22 – James Hargreaves, English weaver, carpenter, and inventor (b. 1720) May 8 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, German music historian, polymath (b. 1711) May 11 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1708) May 12 – Paul-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil, seigneur and colonial army officer in New France, governor of Trois-Rivières (b. 1701) May 16 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (b. 1718) May 30 José de la Borda, Spanish/Mexican mining magnate (b. c. 1699) Voltaire, French philosopher (b. 1694) June 12 – Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716) June 16 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720) June 19 – Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1696) June 24 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714) July 3 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712) Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer (b. c. 1746) July 3 – Anna Maria Mozart, Austrian mother to the Mozarts (b. 1720) July 4 – Ebenezer Kinnersley, American scientist (b. 1711) August 5 – Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703) August 7 – Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet of England (b. 1712) August 12 – Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general, politician (b. 1714) October 1 – Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers, British Royal Navy admiral (b. 1722) October 6 – George Hay, British politician (b. 1715) October 11 – Saliha Sultan,