Deaths
- 20 January - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1722)
- 23 June - Mark Akenside, poet and physician (born 1721)
- 27 July - Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1693)
- 24 August - Thomas Chatterton, poet (suicide) (born 1752)
- 30 September - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, politician and diplomat (born c. 1695)
- 30 September - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (born 1714)
- 18 October - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, soldier (born 1721)
- 9 November - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, politician (born c. 1693)
- 13 November - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1712)
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