Deaths
- 25 February - Eliza Haywood, actress and writer (born 1693)
- 24 July - George Vertue, engraver and antiquary (born 1684)
- 31 August - John Dandridge, distinguished colonel, planter (born 1700)
- 28 October - Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (born 1709)
- 8 December - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, statesman and diplomat (born c.1690)
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