Isabelle de Rohan, Duchess of Tallard, French noblewoman, granddaughter of Madame de Ventadour (b. 1699) January 10 – Edward Cave, English editor, publisher (b. 1691) January 16 – Edward Trelawny, British governor of Jamaica 1738–1752 (b. 1699) January 17 – Filippo Maria Monti, Cardinal in the Catholic Church (b. 1675) January 20 – Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1696) January 28 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian dramatist and writer (b. 1684) February 2 – William Benson, English architect and self-serving Whig place-holder (b. 1682) February 5 – Caroline Thielo, Danish actress (b. 1735) February 16 – Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1673) February 22 – Xavier, Duke of Aquitaine, fils de France of the House of Bourbon (b. 1753) February 27 – Tomás de Almeida, first Patriarch of Lisbon (b. 1670) March 4 – Léopold Philippe d'Arenberg, 4th Duke of Arenberg (b. 1690) March 6 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694) March 9 – Alexander Brodie, Scottish clan chief and politician (b. 1697) March 10 – Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Craon (b. 1679) March 22 – Samuel Bourn the Younger, English dissenting minister (b. 1689) March 23 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693) March 31 – Hilario a Jesu Costa, Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Vicar of Eastern Tonking (1737–1754), Titular Bishop of Corycus (1735–1737) (b. 1696) April 2 – Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686) April 4 – Charles Guillaume Loys de Bochat, 18th-century Swiss jurist and antiquarian (b. 1695) April 5 – Lord Archibald Hamilton, Scottish officer of the Royal Navy (b. 1673) April 8 – José de Carvajal y Lancáster, Spanish statesman (b. 1698) April 9 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher, mathematician, scientist (b. 1679) April 15 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676) April 21 – Thomas Lawrence, merchant who was elected to six one-year terms as mayor of Philadelphia (b. 1689) April 27 – Marie Karoline von Fuchs-Mollard (b. 1681) April 30 – Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este (b. 1726) May 14 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692) May 18 – Sir John Strange, English politician (b. 1696) May 23 – John Wood, the Elder, English architect (b. 1704) June 2 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680) June 7 – Nicolai Eigtved, Danish architect (b. 1701) June 21 – Johann Baptist Martinelli, Austrian architect (b. 1701) June 28 Sollom Emlyn, Irish legal writer