– Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813) September 4 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer, diplomat (d. 1848) September 23 – William Wallace, Scottish Mathematician (d. 1843) September 28 – Pauline Léon, French feminist, radical (d. 1838) October 2 – William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854) October 6 – Josef Madersperger, Austrian tailor, inventor and sewing machine pioneer (d. 1850) October 31 – María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda, Spanish scholar (b. 1803) November 3 – Karađorđe Petrović, leader of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire, founder of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty (d. 1817) November 18 Zacharias Werner, German religious poet (d. 1823) José Marchena Ruiz de Cueto, Spanish writer (d. 1821) November 21 – Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian (d. 1834) date unknown – Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, French astronomer, mathematician (d. 1832) Wang Zhenyi, Chinese astronomer María Remedios del Valle, Argentine soldier and patriot (d. 1847) Amelia Griffiths, British phycologist (d. 1858) Deaths January 20 – Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet (b. 1702) February 1 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685) February 2 – Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689) February 8 – George Dance the Elder, British architect (b. 1695) February 17 – Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691) February 29 – John Mitchell, colonial American physician and botanist (b. 1711) March 1 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher, writer (b. 1694) March 3 Francis Fauquier, English statesman and Royal Governor of Virginia since 1758 (b. 1703) Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (b. 1686) March 11 – Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, Italian architect (b. 1702) March 18 – Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713) April 9 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (b. 1710) April 19 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697) April 29 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist, mineralogist (b. 1694) May 30 – Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford, British earl and politician (b. 1715) June 8 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar, archaeologist (b. 1717) June 15 – James Short, Scottish mathematician (b. 1710) June 19 – Benjamin Tasker, Provincial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690) June 28 – George Hadley, English lawyer and amateur meteorologist (b. 1685) July 6 – Conrad Beissel, German-born American religious leader (b. 1691) July 11 – José de Nebra, Spanish composer (b. 1702) July 24 – Nathaniel Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684) August 3 – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of