Deaths
- January 2 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
- January 4 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
- February 9 – Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)
- February 10 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
- March 17 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematical physicist (b. 1700)
- April 13 – Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
- c.April 24? – Anne Bonny, Irish-born pirate in the Caribbean (b. 1702)
- April 28 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
- May 15 – Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese prime minister (b. 1699)
- May 16 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
- May 20 – William Emerson, English mathematician (b. 1701)
- May – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (b. 1714)
- June 11 – William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor, tortured and burned at the stake by native Americans (b. 1732)
- June 18 – John Wood, the Younger, English architect (b. 1728)
- July 1 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)
- July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher (b. 1712)
- July 15 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
- August 31 – George Croghan, American colonist
- December 27 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher (b. 1697)
- December – Hyder Ali, Indian general and Sultan of Mysore
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