– Georg Friedrich Meier, German philosopher and aesthetician (b. 1718) July–September July 4 – Consort Shu, consort of the Chinese Qianlong Emperor (b. 1728) July 13 – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, French artist (b. 1716) August 14 Karl Wilhelm von Dieskau, Prussian lieutenant general and general inspector of the artillery (b. 1701) Otto Magnus von Schwerin, Prussian general in the army of Frederick the Great (b. 1701) August 23 – Celia Grillo Borromeo, Italian scientist, mathematician (b. 1684) August 30 – John Clavering, British Army officer (b. 1722) September 7 – Tekle Haymanot II, emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1754) September 16 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, English landowner, diplomat, general and Viceroy of India (b. 1714) September 18 – Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, wife of Frederick (b. 1710) September 19 – Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria (b. 1747) September 20 – Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk, British peer (b. 1686) September 22 – John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699) September 25 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1728) October–December October 3 – Jeremias van Riemsdijk, Dutch colonial governor (b. 1712) October 4 – Francis Nash, American brigadier general, killed at the Battle of Germantown (b. c. 1742) October 6 – Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French salon holder (b. 1699) October 7 – Simon Fraser of Balnain, Scottish general during the American Revolutionary War, killed in battle (b. 1729) October 21 – Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720) October 25 – Carl von Donop, Hessian colonel fighting in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1732) October 27 – Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon, French cardinal-archbishop and Grand Almoner (b. 1697) October 30 – John Hart, American militia officer during King George's War and the French and Indian War (b. 1706) November 1 – Jonathan Hampton, American colonial surveyor (b. 1712) November 6 – Bernard de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1699) November 10 – Cornstalk, Shawnee chief (b. c. 1720) November 13 – William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1699) November 17 – Pratap Singh Shah, 2nd king of Nepal (b. 1751) November 18 – Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, English landowner and politician (b. 1716) November 27 – Henry Stauffer, German settler in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (b. 1724) December 9 – Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet, British Royal Navy officer (b. c. 1704) December 12 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1708)