British field marshal (b. 1680) October 14 Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1709) James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696) October 20 – Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician (b. 1706) October 25/8 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor (b. 1703) November 5 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686) November 12 – John Cockburn, Scottish politician November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694) November 22 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician (b. 1680) November 27 – Senesino, Italian singer (b. 1686) December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688) December 12 – Françoise de Graffigny, French lettrist (b. 1695) December 16 – Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (b. 1695) December 17 – Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (b. 1671) December 25 – James Hervey, English clergyman, writer (b. 1714) December 26 – François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist, satirist (b. 1677) Date unknown François Mackandal, Haitian revolutionary leader, burned at the stake Nathaniel Meserve, American shipwright (b. 1704) Hyder Ali and his Sepoy capture Bangalore from "Khande Rao of the Maratha Confederacy". (Part of the Seven Years' War). Verónica II Guterres, African monarch References