4 – Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter, enameler (b. 1722) April 9 – William Law, English minister (b. 1686) April 15 Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682) William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696) April 17 – Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (b. c. 1702) May 1 – August Friedrich Müller, German legal scholar, logician (b. 1684) May 10 James Colebrooke, British baronet (b. 1722) Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe, British baron, politician (b. 1716) May 14 – Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (b. 1710) June 2 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685) June 29 – Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1713) July 4 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689) July 9 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (b. 1704) July 13 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shōgun (b. 1712) July 16 – Jacob Fortling, Danish sculptor (b. 1711) August 3 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691) September 8 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698) October 22 – Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1702) October 25 – Gioacchino Conti, Italian opera singer (b. 1714) November 21 – Charles Holmes, British Royal Navy admiral (b. 1711) November 30 – John Dollond, English optician (b. 1706) December 9 – Tarabai, Indian queen regent of the Maratha Empire (b. 1675) December 15 – John Willes (judge), English lawyer (b. 1685) December 23 – Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy (b. c. 1725) December 25 – Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, German noble (b. 1685) date unknown – Aldegonde Jeanne Pauli, banker in the Austrian Netherlands (b. 1685) References