April 6 – Johann Gottfried Zinn, German anatomist, botanist (b. 1727) April 14 – George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685) May 12 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700) May 23 – Landgravine Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg, Countess (b. 1712) June 3 – Didier Diderot, French craftsman (b. 1685) June 20 – Margareta Capsia, Finnish artist (b. 1682) June 27 – Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, French economist (b. 1712) July 6 – William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (b. 1696) July 27 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698) August 8 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704) August 10 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713) August 16 – Eugene Aram, English philologist and murder, hanged (b. 1704) August 24 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715) September 10 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703) September 13 – James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727) September 14 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general (b. 1712) September 16 – Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, French philosopher (b. 1722) October 10 – Granville Elliott, Army General, British military expert, working for Britain and Palatine forces (b. 1713) October 27 – Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman politician (b. 1700) November 14 – Grégoire Orlyk, Ukrainian-born French Lieutenant General (b. 1702) November 29 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687) December 6 – Princess Louise-Élisabeth of France, daughter of King Louis XV of France (b. 1727) date unknown Alberto Pullicino, Maltese painter (b. 1719) King Thipchang of the Realm of Lampang (b. c. 1675) References