1765) December 5 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762) December 26 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755) date unknown Gabriel de Clieu, French naval officer and governor of Guadeloupe (1737-1752) (d. 1774) Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (d. 1720) Deaths January 13 – Jean Claude, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1619) January 28 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611) January 31 – Francisco Varo, Spanish linguist (b. 1627) February 15 – Marie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German noblewoman (b. 1638) February 16 – Charles Cotton, English poet and writer (b. 1630) February 22 – Jean Hamon, French doctor and writer (b. 1618) February 26 – Magdalena Elisabeth of Hanau, German noblewoman (b. 1611) March 19 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643) March 20 – Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Electress of Saxony by marriage (b. 1612) March 20 – Marie Eleonore of Dietrichstein, Countess of Kaunitz and Oppersdorf (b. 1623) March 22 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer, established opera in France (b. 1632) March 28 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596) April 12 – Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer (b. c. 1628) April 16 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628) April 20 – Richard Olmsted, Connecticut settler (b. 1612) April 23 – Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1636) April 25 – Johannes Caioni, Transylvanian Franciscan friar (b. 1629) July 19 – Laura Martinozzi, Duchess consort of Modena (b. 1639) August 9 – Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1608) September 1 – Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614) September 12 – John Alden, English-born Mayflower crewman (b. c. 1599) September 28 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623) October 13 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633) October 19 – Giulio Bartolocci, Italian Biblical scholar (b. 1613) October 21 – Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606) October 24 – Countess Palatine Maria Eufrosyne of Zweibrücken, Swedish princess (b. 1625) November 4 Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie, Norman nobleman, seigneur and fur trader in New France (b. 1604) Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg, German noblewoman, by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels (b. 1647) November 6 – Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, French aristocrat (b. 1612) November 14 – Nell Gwyn, English actress, a mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650) November 18 – Anton Janson, Dutch typefounder and printer (b. 1620) December