Eblé, French general (d. 1812) Date unknown Georges Antoine Chabot, French jurist, statesman (d. 1819) Nicholas Fish, U.S. Revolutionary soldier (d. 1833) Anthimos Gazis, Greek scholar, philosopher (d. 1828) Samuel Hardy, U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (d. 1785) Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama of Tibet (d. 1804) Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General (d. 1815) Samuel Sterett, American politician, U.S. Representative for Maryland (d. 1833) Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité, Empress of Haiti (d. 1858) Probable Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (d. c. 1819) Deaths January 7 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686) January 17 – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (b. 1724) January 18 – François Nicole, French mathematician (b. 1683) February 10 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1683) March 2 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (b. 1679) March 6 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. c. 1705) March 18 Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693) Thomas Zebrowski, Lithuanian Jesuit scientist (b. 1714) March 22 Jonathan Edwards, U.S. minister (b. 1703) Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670) April 7 – Joseph Blanchard, American soldier (b. 1704) April 21 – Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (b. 1679) April 22 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686) April 30 – François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684) May 3 – Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675) May 28 – Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach (b. 1737) June 9 – Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Puerto Rican soldier June 12 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722) July 6 – George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (in battle) (b. c. 1725) July 7 – Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (b. 1706) July 15 – Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (b. 1705) July 18 – Duncan Campbell, Scottish soldier August 2 – George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (b. 1675) August 15 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698) August 17 – Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin, Russian soldier (b. 1702) August 23 – Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish lady in waiting (b. 1722) August 27 – Barbara of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and Queen of Spain (b. 1711) September 5 – Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, Russian chemist (b. c. 1720) September 23 – John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (b. 1719) October 2 (bur.) – Philip Southcote, English landscape gardener (b. 1698) October 12 – Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth,