7th Baronet (b. 1722) February 26 – Barbara Erni, Liechtenstein confidence trickster (b. 1743) March 14 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director (b. 1713) April 14 – William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715) April 26 – Johan Samuel Augustin, German-Danish astronomical writer, civil servant (b. 1715) May 8 Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719) Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (b. 1701) June 2 Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713) Gottfried August Homilius, German composer, cantor and organist (b. 1714) June 30 – James Oglethorpe, English general, founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696) July 5 – Anne Poulett, British politician (b. 1711) July 6 – Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1711) July 9 – William Strahan, British politician (b. 1715) July 12 – Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais, French jurist on the so-called "Brittany affair" (b. 1701) July 13 – Stephen Hopkins, Founding Father of the United States (b. 1707) July 17 – Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British duchess (b. 1715) August 17 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710) August 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier, politician (b. 1716) August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714) August 31 – Pietro Chiari, Italian playwright (b. 1712) September 19 – Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Queen consort of Sardinia (b. 1729) September 30 – Johann Jakob Moser, German jurist (b. 1701) October 4 David Brearley, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703) Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (b. 1736) November 13 – Joaquín Ibarra, Spanish printer (b. 1725) November 15 – César Gabriel de Choiseul, French officer (b. 1712) November 18 – Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier, writer (b. 1725) November 19 – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720) November 20 – James Wright, Governor of Georgia (b. 1716) November 25 – Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712) December 6 – Kitty Clive, English actress, playwright (b. 1711) December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author (b. 1742) date unknown Fakhr ad-Din al-Burdwani, Bengali Islamic scholar Faustina Pignatelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1705) References Further reading