Deaths
- 28 May - Richard Hurd, bishop and writer (born 1720)
- 5 September - John Home, writer (born 1722)
- 10 November - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, soldier and governor of Quebec (born 1724)
- Theophilus Lindsey, theologian (born 1723)
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