- Jan 3 Luca Antonio Predieri, Italian composer and violinist, dies at 78
- Jan 7 Thomas Clap, American academic, 1st president of Yale University, dies at 63
- Jan 22 Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist, dies at 47
- Mar 7 Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonial administrator (French Louisiana), dies at 87
- Mar 20 Firmin Abauzit, French scholar and scientist, dies at 87
- Apr 7 Franz Sparry, Austrian composer, dies at 51
- May 18 Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, German composer, dies of a fever at 28
- Jun 25 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer, dies at 86
- Jul 15 Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (Elegy written in Spring), dies at 21
- Aug 28 Johann Schobert, German-French composer, dies after eating poison mushrooms at about 32
- Sep 4 Charles Townshend, English politician, 3rd Viscount of Townshend, dies at 42
- Oct 18 Joseph Paul Ziegler, Austrian composer, dies at 45
- Dec 1 Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason
- Dec 9 Benedetto Alfieri, Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies
- Dec 22 John Newberry, English publisher, dies
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