19 – Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1713) March 23 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer, delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723) March 26 – Anna Rosina de Gasc, German portrait painter (b. 1713) March 30 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718) March 31 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718) April 7 – Ignaz Holzbauer, German composer (b. 1711) April 16 Benedict Joseph Labre, French Catholic saint (b. 1745) Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719) May 11 – Juliane Reichardt, German-born Bohemian pianist, singer and composer (b. 1752) May 23 – James Otis, American lawyer, patriot (b. 1725) June 2 – Charles Spalding, Scottish inventor and underwater diver, killed in diving bell accident (b. 1738) September 14 – James Grenville, British Member of Parliament (b. 1715) September 18 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, physicist (b. 1707) Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman, Hebrew scholar (b. 1718) September 28 – Marguerite Gourdan, French procurer October 2 – Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown, Irish politician (b. 1701) October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717) November 1 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (b. 1741) November 3 – Charles Collé, French dramatist (b. 1709) November 15 – John Hanson, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1721) November 23 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714) December 13 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717) December 15 – Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi, first ruler of Oman of the Al Said dynasty (b. 1710) December 16 Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) William James, British naval commander (b. 1720) Date unknown: Thomas Calcraft, English politician and Lieutenant-Colonel (b. 1738) Adolf Friedrich von Reinhard, jurist and publicist (b. 1726) References Further reading