Lorillard II, American businessman, real estate tycoon (d. 1843) September 17 – John Goodricke, English astronomer (d. 1786) September 25 – Fletcher Christian, English sailor and mutineer (d. 1793) December 7 Pierre Prévost, French panorama painter (d. 1823) Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Marshal of France (d. 1841) Date unknown – Maria Medina Coeli, Italian physician (d. 1846) Approximate date – Alexander Mackenzie (explorer), Scottish explorer of northern Canada (d. 1820) Deaths January 14 – Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1685) March 6 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690) March 16 – Frederick Augustus Rutowsky, German general (b. 1702) March 17 – George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer (b. c.1696) March 25 – Mikhail Mikhalovich Golitsyn, Russian naval officer (b. 1684) March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695) April 9 – Marco Benefial, Italian painter (b. 1684) April 15 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721) April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German composer (b. 1681) May 3 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712) June 29 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693) July 7 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683) July 16 – Tsar Ivan VI of Russia (murdered in prison) (b. 1740) July 23 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703) September 2 – Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700) September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683) September 23 – Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703) September 26 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1676) October 2 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720) October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, French composer and violinist (murdered) (b. 1697) October 23 – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683) October 26 – William Hogarth, English painter and satirist (b. 1697) November 20 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690) November 27 – Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Menshikov, Russian army officer (b. 1714) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar