March 3 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (b. 1686)
March 18 - Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
August 17 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
October 28 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700)
October 31 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
December 8 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702)
December 20 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
Events
January 9 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London.
May 10 - John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
August 26 - The HM Bark Endeavour expedition under Captain James Cook sets sail from England.
November 5 - Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
December 1 - The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
December 6 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
