Deaths
- January 2 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
- January 4 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
- February 9 – Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)
- February 10 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
- March 17 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematical physicist (b. 1700)
- April 13 – Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
- c.April 24? – Anne Bonny, Irish-born pirate in the Caribbean (b. 1702)
- April 28 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
- May 15 – Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese prime minister (b. 1699)
- May 16 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
- May 20 – William Emerson, English mathematician (b. 1701)
- May – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (b. 1714)
- June 11 – William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor, tortured and burned at the stake by native Americans (b. 1732)
- June 18 – John Wood, the Younger, English architect (b. 1728)
- July 1 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)
- July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher (b. 1712)
- July 15 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
- August 31 – George Croghan, American colonist
- December 27 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher (b. 1697)
- December – Hyder Ali, Indian general and Sultan of Mysore
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)