Continental army officer (d. 1842) December 19 – François Isaac de Rivaz, French inventor, politician (d. 1828) December 21 – Jean-François Houbigant, French perfumer (d. 1807) December 28 – Conrad Tanner, Swiss abbot (d. 1825) December 30 – Sir Charles Malet, 1st Baronet, British East India Company official (d. 1815) Deaths January 4 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704) January 14 – Devasahayam Pillai, beatified Indian Catholic (b. 1712) January 16 – Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705) February 9 – Fredrik Hasselqvist, Swedish traveller and naturalist (b. 1722) February 10 – Henriette-Anne of France, daughter of King Louis XV of France (b. 1727) February 15 – Beinta Broberg, notorious Faroese vicar's wife (b. 1667) March 9 – Claude Joseph Geoffroy, brother of Étienne François Geoffroy (b. 1685) March 21 – Gio Nicola Buhagiar, Maltese painter (b. 1698) April 29 – Matthew Michell, English politician (b. 1705) May 3 – Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. 1694) May 6 – Sophia of Saxe-Weissenfels, Countess of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, German aristocrat and culture patron (b. 1684) May 22 – Johann Alexander Thiele, German painter (b. 1685) May 23 – William Bradford, British-born printer (b. 1663) June 16 Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (b. 1664) Joseph Butler, English priest, theologian (b. 1692) June 21 – Old Briton, Piankashaw chieftain July 20 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667) July 29 – Peter Warren, British admiral (b. 1703) August 22 – William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667) November 2 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (b. 1687) November 5 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670) November 6 – Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685) November 27 – William Digby, 5th Baron Digby, English politician, baron (b. 1661) December 3 – Henri-Guillaume Hamal, Walloon musician and composer (b. 1685) December 11 – Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1686) date unknown – Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (b. 1675) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar