Castiglione (d. 1816) November 1 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (d. 1822) November 28 – William Blake, English poet and artist (d. 1827) December 7 – José Antonio Pareja, Spanish admiral (d. 1813) December 30 – Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1826) Date unknown William Bradley, British naval officer and cartographer (d. 1833) Agnes Ibbetson, English plant physiologist (d. 1823) John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (d. 1839) Deaths January 9 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist, man of letters (b. 1657) January 19 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1664) February 5 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (b. 1678) March 1 – Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712) March 8 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701) March 12 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1696) March 14 – John Byng, British admiral (executed) (b. 1704) March 27 – Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717) March 28 – Robert-François Damiens, French domestic servant, executed for the attempted assassination of Louis XV of France (b. 1715) April 4 – Spencer Phips, Acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1685) April 20 – Paul Alphéran de Bussan, French bishop (b. 1684) May 6 Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683) Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684) June 28 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (b. 1687) July 2 – Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent ruler of Bengal of undivided India (b. 1733) July 8 – Daniel Parke Custis, American planter (b. 1711) July 23 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685) August 3 – Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1712) August 17 – Aaron Cleveland, American clergyman (b. 1715) August 28 – David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705) September 24 – Aaron Burr, Sr., President of Princeton University (b. 1716) October 2 – Aloysius Centurione, Italian Jesuit (b. 1686) October 17 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683) October 25 – Antoine Augustin Calmet, French theologian (b. 1672) October 30 Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1699) Edward Vernon, English naval officer (b. 1684) December 11 Colley Cibber, English poet laureate, actor-manager (b. 1671) Edmund Curll, English bookseller, publisher (b. 1675) December 14 – Levan Abashidze, Georgian politician December 15 – John Dyer,