1812) Howqua, Chinese merchant (d. 1843) probable John Henry Colclough, Irish revolutionary (d. 1798) Deaths January 5 – Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset, English cricketer (b. 1711) February 2 – Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693) March 6 – Andrew Lauder, Burgess of the Royal Burgh of Lauder (1 August 1737) (b. 1702) March 28 – Johann Friedrich Endersch, German cartographer (b. 1705) April 5 – Marc-Antoine Laugier, French Jesuit priest, architectural theorist (b. 1713) April 13 – Anna Canalis di Cumiana, morganatic spouse of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (b. 1680) April 20 – Chief Pontiac, Ottawa chief (murdered) (b. c. 1719) April 21 – John Gilbert Cooper, British poet and writer (b. 1722) May 14 – Iyoas I, Emperor of Ethiopia. June 1 – Edward Holyoke, American President of Harvard University (b. 1689) June 28 – Elisabeth Stierncrona, Swedish noble (b. 1714) August 1 – Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche, French astronomer (b. 1722) August 2 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689) August 29 – Edmond Hoyle, English game expert (b. 1672) September 22 – Antonio Genovesi, Italian philosopher (b. 1712) September 23 – Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly, French astronomer (b. 1714) September 27 – Anna Karolina Orzelska, Polish adventurer (b. 1707) November 3 – Diane Adélaïde de Mailly, third of the five famous French de Nesle sisters (b. 1713) November 16 – Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (b. 1719) November 23 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711) November 27 – Kamo no Mabuchi, Japanese poet, philologist (b. 1697) December 8 – Joseph Friedrich Ernst, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (b. 1702) December 13 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (b. 1715) December 30 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685) date unknown King Suremphaa of Assam Birgitte Sofie Gabel, Danish noble (b. 1746) References Further reading