– Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695) January 8 – John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor (b. 1694) January 20 – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722) January 27 – Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl, 18th-century politician (b. 1712) January 30 – Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (b. 1712) January 27 – Philippe Macquer, French historian (b. 1720) February 26 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer, violinist (b. 1692) March 5 – Crispus Attucks, African-American dockworker, first to die in the Boston Massacre (b. 1723) March 27 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian artist (b. 1696) April 27 – José Solís Folch de Cardona, Spanish colonial governor (b. 1716) April 25 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot, physicist (b. 1700) May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703) June 22 – Philip Carteret Webb, English barrister (b. 1702) June 23 – Mark Akenside, English poet, physician (b. 1721) July 17 – Joseph Paris Duverney, French banker (b. 1684) July 21 – Charlotta Frölich, Swedish agronomist (b. 1698) July 27 – Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693) August 15 – Edward Antill (colonial politician), American winemaker (b. 1701) August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet (b. 1752) September 2 – Hongzhou, Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1712) September 9 – Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, German anatomist (b. 1697) September 22 – Ignatius of Santhià, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1686) September 30 George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714) Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat October 14 – Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (b. 1696) October 18 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721) November 9 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician November 13 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1712) November 24 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685) December 4 – John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, Irish politician (b. 1711) December 5 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692) December 6 – Neri Maria Corsini, Italian Catholic priest and cardinal (b. 1685) References Further reading