Deaths
- 7 January - Allan Ramsay, poet (born 1686 in Scotland)
- 17 January - James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, peer (born 1724)
- 10 February - Thomas Ripley, architect (born 1683)
- 6 March - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, politician (born c. 1705)
- 18 March - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1693)
- 22 March - Richard Leveridge, bass and composer (born 1670)
- 6 July - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, general (killed in battle) (born c. 1725)
- 18 July - Duncan Campbell, soldier (year of birth unknown)
- 2 August - George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (born 1675)
- 12 October - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, field marshal (born 1680)
- 14 October - Francis Edward James Keith, soldier and field marshal (born 1696)
- 20 October - Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, politician (born 1706)
- c.27/8 October - Theophilus Cibber, actor (born 1703)
- 12 November - John Cockburn, Scottish politician
- 22 November - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, politician (born 1680)
- 15 December - John Dyer, poet (born 1699)
- 25 December - James Hervey, clergyman and writer (born 1714)
- date unknown - Philip Southcote, landscape gardener (born 1698)
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