1758 - Deaths

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)
• 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 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 3 – Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (b. 1671)
• 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 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 Fedorovich Apraksin, Russian soldier (b. 1702)
• 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 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor (b. 1703)
• October 12 – Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
• October 14
  • Wilhelmine of Bayreuth, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1709)
  • Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
• October 20 – Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician (b. 1706)
• November 5 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
• November 12 – John Cockburn, Scottish politician
• November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
• November 22 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician (b. 1680)
• December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)
• December 12 – Françoise de Graffigny, French lettrist (b. 1695)
• December 15 – John Dyer, Welsh poet (b. 1699)
• December 16 – Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (b. 1695)
• December 25 – James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (b. 1714)
• December 26 – François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist and satirist (b. 1677)