Mar 2 Robert Joseph Pothier, French lawyer (influential writer on French Law), dies at 73 Mar 11 Johann George Reutter, composer, dies at 63 Mar 21 Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703) Mar 22 John Canton, English physicist, dies at 53 Mar 26 Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer and historian, dies at 68 Mar 29 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher, mathematician, and mystic (The New Church), dies at 84 Feb 1772 Famous Deaths by Year Apr 1772 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Car Crash Hanging Killed in Action Plane Crash Poisoning