Deaths
- March 13 - Okumura Masanobu, Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter (born 1686)
- April 9 - Marco Benefial, Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome (born 1684)
- May 3 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, engraver and art critic (born 1712)
- July 20 – Peter van Bleeck, portrait painter and engraver (born 1697)
- August 23 - Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (born 1726)
- September 1 - Sebastiano Conca, Italian painter (born 1680)
- October 26 – William Hogarth, English painter credited with pioneering western sequential art (born 1697)
- November 13 - John Wootton, English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes (born 1682)
- date unknown
- Francesco Zucchi, Italian engraver (born 1692)
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“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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