general, author (d. 1803) October 24 – Johann August von Starck, German pastor (d. 1816) November 15 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss physiognomist (d. 1801) Date unknown – Nikolaos Koutouzis, Greek painter, poet and priest (d. 1813) Catherine Antonovna of Brunswick, German-Russian noble (d. 1807) Gelelemend, Lenape chief (d. 1811) Deaths January 15 – Ramon Despuig, Spanish-born 67th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1670) February 13 – Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer (b. 1660) February 21 – Jethro Tull, British agriculturist (b. 1674) March 16 – Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga, Tuscan princess (b. 1686) March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671) March 31 – Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668) April 10 – Celia Fiennes, English travel writer (b. 1662) May 21 – Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe, Irish peer (b. 1664) May 24 – Lord Augustus FitzRoy, Royal Navy officer during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias (b. 1716) May 25 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660) June 14 – Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg, German noble (b. 1714) June 18 – François Pourfour du Petit, French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon (b. 1664) July 3 – Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Sardinian queen consort (b. 1711) July 28 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678) August 4 – Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer (b. 1676) August 31 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681) September 7 – Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (b. 1689) September 28 – Edward Bayly, Irish politician (b. 1684) October 12 – Joseph Talcott, British Governor of the Connecticut Colony for more than 17 years, since 1724. (b. 1670) November 18 – Stephen Delancey, major colonial New York figure (b. 1663) November 24 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b.1688) December 14 – Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661) December 19 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681) December 21 – Bernard de Montfaucon, French Benedictine monk (b. 1655) December 31 – Andrew Archer, English politician (b. 1659) References