Deaths
- April 9 - William Law, theologian (born 1686)
- April 15 - William Oldys, bibliographer (born 1696)
- April 17 - Benjamin Hoadly, bishop of Bangor and instigator of the Bangorian Controversy (born 1676)
- July 4 - Samuel Richardson, novelist (born 1689)
- August 3 - Johann Matthias Gesner, librarian and classical scholar (born 1691)
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“I sang of death but had I known
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