coppersmith (b. 1683) John Pugh Pryse, British Member of Parliament (b. 1739) January 18 – Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières, French general (b. 1711) January 19 – Thomas Gillespie, Scottish church leader (b. 1708) January 21 Florian Leopold Gassmann, Austrian composer (b. 1729) Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774 (b. 1717) James Lacy, actor and theatre manager (b. 1696) Hans Jacob Scheel, Norwegian general (b. 1714) January 22 – Dudley Cosby, 1st Baron Sydney, Irish politician (b. 1730) January 29 – Franciszek Ferdynant Lubomirski, Franciszek Ferdynand Lubomirski was a Polish nobleman (b. 1710) January 30 Jean-Pierre Guignon, French composer (b. 1702) František Tůma, Czech composer (b. 1704) January 31 – Consort Yu, Concubine of Chinese Emperor Qianlong (b. 1730) February February 1 – Johann Heinrich Zopf, German historian (b. 1691) February 4 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French explorer, geographer, and mathematician (b. 1701) February 8 – Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg, British peer (b. 1699) February 17 – Robert Jones, English politician (b. 1704) February 18 – Karl Michael von Attems, Austrian Catholic archbishop and prince of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 1711) February 25 – Johann Georg, Chevalier de Saxe, German general (b. 1704) February 27 – Knud Leem, Norwegian priest and linguist (b. 1697) February 28 – Anthony Askew, English physician and book collector (b. 1722) March March 1 – Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud, French actor (b. 1706) March 2 – William Talbot, English evangelical clergyman (b. 1717) March 3 – Andrew Oliver, American merchant and public official (b. 1706) March 4 – William Boys, Royal Navy officer (b. 1700) March 5 – Georg Joachim Mark, German theologian (b. 1726) March 7 – Carlo Alberto Guidoboni Cavalchini, Catholic cardinal (b. 1683) March 10 – William Browne, English physician (b. 1692) March 18 – Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, British politician (b. 1714) March 19 – Lucas Ramírez Galán, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1715) March 21 – Diego Bernardo de Peredo y Navarrete, Mexican Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop of Yucatán (b. 1696) March 25 Spencer Cowper, Dean of Durham Cathedral (b. 1713) Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German noble (b. 1704) Zeynep Sultan, ottoman princess, Daughter of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III (b. 1720) March 30 – Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, German noble (b. 1721) April April 1 – Claudius Amyand, English politician (b. 1718) April 4 – Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (b. 1728)