- Feb 25 Eliza Haywood, English actress and novelist (Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry), dies at 63
- Mar 13 Johann Melchior Conradi, German composer, dies at 81
- Mar 23 Georg Gottfried Wagner, German composer, dies at 57
- Apr 10 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, and Maestro di Cappella (San Petronio, 1696-1756), dies at 94
- Apr 15 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German composer, dies at 29
- Apr 16 Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (proper motion. satellites of Saturn), dies at 79
- Jul 9 Pieter Langendijk, Dutch painter, etcher and playwright (Wiskunstenaars), dies at 72
- Jul 24 George Vertue, English engraver, dies at about 72
- Sep 19 Josef Antonin Sehling, Bohemian violinist, and composer dies at 46
- Oct 26 Johann Theodor Römhild, German organist and composer, chiefly of sacred music, dies at 72
- Dec 8 William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat
- Dec 11 Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress as the spouse of Emperor Charles VII, dies at 55
- Dec 11 Theodor A. Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer and King of Corsica, dies at 62
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