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[[File:The Victory of Montcalms Troops at Carillon by Henry Alexander Ogden.JPG|thumb|300px|[[July 8]]: French forces inside the British [[Province of New York]] resist British attack in the [[Battle of Carillon]].]]
[[File:Destruction du vaisseau le Prudent et capture du Bienfaisant a Louisbourg 1758.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[June 8]]: The [[Siege of Louisbourg (1758)|Siege of Louisbourg]] begins in [[Nova Scotia]].]]
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== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; Swedish biologist [[Carl Linnaeus]] (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'']], the starting point of modern [[zoological nomenclature]], introducing [[binomial nomenclature]] for animals to his established system of [[Linnaean taxonomy]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Niles|last=Eldredge|author-link=Niles Eldredge|title=Life on Earth: A-G|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2002|pages=477–478}}</ref> Among the first examples of his system of identifying an organism by genus and then species, Linnaeus identifies the [[lamprey]] with the name ''Petromyzon marinus''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Use of Numerals for Specific Names in Systematic Zoology|first=David Starr|last=Jordan|journal=Science|date=1911-03-10|volume=33|issue=845|page=372|doi=10.1126/science.33.845.370-a|pmid=17799876}}</ref> He introduces the term ''[[Homo sapiens]]''. (Date of January 1 assigned retrospectively.)<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/index.jsp?article=3&nfv=true|chapter=Article 3|title=International Code of Zoological Nomenclature|author=International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature|author-link=International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature|edition=4th|isbn=0-85301-006-4|year=1999|publisher=International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, c/o Natural History Museum }}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; At [[Cap-Haïtien]] in [[Haiti]], former slave turned rebel [[François Mackandal]] is executed by the French colonial government by being burned at the stake.<ref>Shelby T. McCloy, ''The Negro in the French West Indies'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2015) p40</ref>
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Russia]]n troops under the command of [[William Fermor]] invade East [[Prussia]] and capture [[Königsberg]] with 34,000 soldiers; although the city is later abandoned by Russia after the Seven Years' War ends, the city again comes under Russian control in 1945 during World War II and is now named [[Kaliningrad]].<ref>Herbert J. Redman, ''Frederick the Great and the Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763'' (McFarland, 2015) p191</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; A fleet of 158 British Royal Navy warships, under the command of Admiral [[Edward Boscawen]], departs from [[Plymouth]] toward North America in an effort to conquer the French Canadian territories of [[New France]].  Many of the sailors die of nutritional deficiencies along the way, including the [[scurvy]] that kills 26 of the crew of [[HMS Pembroke (1757)|HMS ''Pembroke'']], captained by future world explorer [[James Cook]] on his first long voyage.<ref>Stephen Feinstein, ''Captain Cook: Great Explorer of the Pacific'' (Enslow Publishers, 2010) p28</ref>
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]], the famed English theologian who had assumed the presidency of what is now [[Princeton University]] only a week earlier, sets an example for students and faculty by publicly receiving an [[inoculation]] against [[smallpox]].<ref>"Edwards, Jonathan", by Douglas A. Sweeney, in ''Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) p770</ref> Unfortunately, the vaccine contains live smallpox; Edwards develops the disease and dies on March 22 at the age of 54.  
* [[March 16]] &ndash; Members of the [[Comanche]] Nation loot and destroy the Spanish [[Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá]] (near modern-day [[Menard, Texas]]) and kill eight of the people there, including the mission leader, Father Alonso Giraldo de Terreros.<ref>Donald E. Chipman and Harriet Denise Joseph, ''Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas''  (University of Texas Press, 2010)</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Battle of Cuddalore (1758)|Battle of Cuddalore]]: A British fleet under [[George Pocock|Sir George Pocock]] engages the French fleet of [[Anne Antoine, Comte d'Aché]] indecisively near [[Madras]].
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; [[French and Indian War]]: [[Mary Campbell (colonial settler)|Mary Campbell]] is abducted from her home in [[Pennsylvania]] by members of the [[Lenape]] Nation.
* [[June 8]] &ndash; Seven Years' War &ndash; French and Indian War: [[Siege of Louisbourg (1758)|Siege of Louisbourg]]: [[James Wolfe]]'s attack at [[Louisbourg, Nova Scotia]], commences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1758 |title=Historical Events for Year 1758 &#124; OnThisDay.com |website=Historyorb.com |access-date=2016-06-25}}</ref>
[[File:Schlacht-bei-krefeld.jpg|thumb|right|[[June 23]]: [[Battle of Krefeld]]]]
* [[June 9]]&ndash;[[June 10|10]] &ndash; Spanish-Barbary Wars &ndash; [[Battle of Cape Palos (1758)|Battle of Cape Palos]]: a Spanish squadron of three ships of the line defeats a Barbary squadron made up of a ship of the line and a frigate.
* [[June 23]] &ndash; Seven Years' War &ndash; [[Battle of Krefeld]]: Anglo-Hanoverian forces under [[Ferdinand of Brunswick]] defeat the French.
* [[June 30]] &ndash; Seven Years' War &ndash; [[Battle of Domstadtl]]: Austrian forces under [[Ernst Gideon von Laudon]] and Joseph von Siskovits rout an enormous convoy with supplies for the [[Prussia]]n army, guarded by strong troops of [[Hans Joachim von Zieten]].

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 6]] 
** [[Pope Clement XIII]] succeeds [[Pope Benedict XIV]], as the 248th [[pope]].
** [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Bernetz Brook]]: British troops defeat the French.
* [[July 8]] &ndash; Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces hold [[Fort Carillon]] against the British at [[Ticonderoga, New York]].
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; French and Indian War: The island battery at [[Fortress Louisbourg]] is silenced, and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Negapatam (1758)|Battle of Negapatam]]: Off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success.
[[File:Friedrich II in der Schlacht bei Zorndorf Copy after Carl Röchling.jpg|thumb|right|[[August 25]]: [[Battle of Zorndorf]]]]
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Zorndorf]]: Frederick halts the [[Russian Empire|Russian]] army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the [[Oder]].
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; British troops under the command of Colonel [[John Bradstreet]] capture [[Fort Frontenac]] (near the site of what is now [[Kingston, Ontario]]) from the French.<ref>Gordon Carruth, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates 3rd Edition (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1962) p72</ref>
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Távora affair]]: [[Joseph I of Portugal]] survives an assassination attempt.
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; French and Indian War: [[Battle of Fort Duquesne]]: A British attack on [[Fort Duquesne]] (modern-day [[Pittsburgh]]) is defeated.
[[File:Menzelhochkirch.jpg|thumb|right|[[October 14]]: [[Battle of Hochkirch]]]]

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Hochkirch]]: Frederick loses a hard-fought battle against the Austrians under Marshal [[Count Leopold Joseph von Daun|Leopold von Daun]], who besieges [[Dresden]].
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: French and Indian War: French forces abandon [[Fort Duquesne]] to the British, who then name the area [[Pittsburgh]]. 
* [[December 13]] &ndash; The ship ''[[Duke William (ship)|Duke William]]'' sinks in the North Atlantic, with the loss of over 360 lives, while deporting [[Acadians]] from [[Prince Edward Island]] to France.
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Halley's Comet]] is sighted by [[Johann Georg Palitzsch]], confirming [[Edmund Halley]]'s 1705 prediction of its periodicity.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Messier's "Notes on my comets"|url=http://www.messier.seds.org/xtra/history/notes-c.html|quote=It was discovered, [...] at Aprohlis, near Dresden, by a farmer named Palitzsch, on the 25th of December 1758[...]}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* The French build the first European settlement in what becomes [[Erie County, New York]], at the mouth of [[Buffalo River (New York)|Buffalo Creek]].
* [[Rudjer Boscovich]] publishes his [[atomic theory]], in {{lang|la|Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in nalura existentium}}.
* A fire destroys parts of [[Oslo|Christiania]], [[Norway]].

* Marquis Gabriel de Lernay, a French officer captured during the Seven Years' War, establishes a military lodge in Berlin, with the help of Baron de Printzen, master of The Three Globes Lodge at Berlin, and Philipp Samuel Rosa, a disgraced former pastor.
* Okadaya (岡田屋), predecessor of [[AEON (company)|AEON]], a multiple [[Retailer|retailer group]], founded in [[Yokkaichi]], [[Japan]].{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
* J. R. Geigy, predecessor of [[Novartis]], a global [[pharmaceutical]] brand, founded in [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]].<ref name="JR Geigy">{{cite web |title=J R Geigy SA |url=https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp42177/j-r-geigy-sa-sa |website=Science Museum Group |access-date=March 6, 2025}}</ref>
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== Births ==
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Charles Ganilh]], French economist, politician (d. [[1836]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland]], born Viscount Trentham, British politician and landowner (d. [[1833]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[François Louis Bourdon]], French Revolutionary politician (d. [[1797]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Marie Anne Simonis]], Belgian textile industrialist (d. [[1831]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze]], French chemist (d. [[1836]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough]] (d. [[1844]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[David Ochterlony]], Massachusetts-born general with the [[East India Company]] (d. [[1825]])
* [[February 3]] 
** [[Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier]] of Great Britain (d. [[1823]])
** [[Vasily Kapnist]], Ukrainian poet, playwright (d. [[1823]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley]], English peer (d. [[1818]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Amalia Holst]], German writer, intellectual and feminist (d. [[1829]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[John Pinkerton]], British antiquarian (d. [[1826]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Nicolas François, Count Mollien]], French financier (d. [[1850]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Franz Joseph Gall]], German pioneering neuroanatomist (d. [[1828]])
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum]] (d. [[1840]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Magdalene Sophie Buchholm]], Norwegian poet (d. [[1826]])
* [[April 4]] 
** [[John Hoppner]], English portrait-painter (d. [[1810]])
** [[Pierre-Paul Prud'hon]], French painter (d. [[1823]])
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach]], Prussian soldier (d. [[1827]])
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén]], Spanish general (d. [[1852]])
* [[April 23]] 
** [[Alexander Hood (Royal Navy officer)|Alexander Hood]], British Royal Navy officer (k. [[1798]])
** [[Alexander Cochrane]], British Royal Navy officer (d. [[1832]])
** [[Philip Gidley King]], British Royal Navy officer, colonial administrator (d. [[1808]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix]], French zoologist (d. [[1830]])
[[File:James Monroe White House portrait 1819.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[James Monroe]]]]
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[James Monroe]], fifth [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1831]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Georg Carl von Döbeln]], Swedish officer, general and war hero (d. [[1820]])
* [[April 30]]
** [[Emmanuel Vitale]], [[Maltese people|Maltese]] military leader (d. [[1802]])
** [[Jane West (novelist)|Jane West]], English writer (d. [[1852]])
[[File:Robespierre crop.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Maximilien Robespierre]]]]
* [[May 6]] 
** [[Maximilien de Robespierre]], French revolutionary (d. [[1794]])<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC - History - Historic Figures: Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/robespierre_maximilien.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=17 June 2022}}</ref>
** [[André Masséna]], Napoleonic general, Marshal of France (d. [[1817]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[John Heath (politician)|John Heath]], U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. [[1810]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Thomas Taylor (neoplatonist)|Thomas Taylor]], English neoplatonist translator (d. [[1835]])
* [[May 17]] 
** [[Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet]], English fossil collector (d. [[1839]])
** [[Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco]] (d. [[1819]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Raffaello Sanzio Morghen]], Italian engraver (d. [[1833]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Clotilde Tambroni]], Italian [[philologist]], linguist (d. [[1817]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Hamilton (writer)|Elizabeth Hamilton]], English writer (d. [[1816]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; {{interlanguage link|Rosalie de Constant|fr}}, Swiss naturalist (d. [[1834]]) 
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Jeremiah Colegrove]], U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (d. [[1836]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Emperor Go-Momozono]] of Japan (d. [[1779]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Carle Vernet]], French painter (d. [[1835]])
[[File:Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton A17581.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Picton]]]]
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Thomas Picton]], British soldier, colonial governor (k. [[1815]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Israel Pellew]], English naval officer (d. [[1832]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Alexander Nasmyth]], Scottish portrait and landscape painter (d. [[1840]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Hannah Webster Foster]], U.S. novelist (d. [[1840]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Louis Friant]], French Napoleonic soldier (d. [[1829]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]], leader of the Haitian Revolution (d. [[1806]])
[[File:ChristopherGoreByTrumbull.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Christopher Gore]]]]
* [[September 21]] 
** [[Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy]], French linguist, orientalist (d. [[1838]])
** [[Christopher Gore]], U.S. lawyer, politician (d. [[1827]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Maria Anna Thekla Mozart]] called Marianne, known as Bäsle ("little cousin"), cousin of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] (d. [[1841]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Cosme Argerich]], Argentine Surgeon General (d. [[1820]])
[[File:HoratioNelson1.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson]]]]
* [[September 29]]
** [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson]], British admiral (d. [[1805]])
** [[Fanny von Arnstein]], Austrian salonnière (d. [[1818]])
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Seymour Fleming]], British noblewoman (d. [[1818]]) 
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Watkin Tench]], British Marine officer (d. [[1833]])
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers]], German astronomer (d. [[1840]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich von Dannecker]], German sculptor (d. [[1841]])
[[File:Noah Webster pre-1843 IMG 4412 Cropped.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Noah Webster]]]]
* [[October 16]] – [[Noah Webster]], U.S. lexicographer (d. [[1843]])
* October 22/6 &ndash; [[Vincenzo Dandolo]], Italian chemist, agriculturist (d. [[1819]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[John Sibthorp]], English botanist (d. [[1796]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas]], French general (d. [[1829]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Thomas Gisborne]], Anglican priest, abolitionist (d. [[1846]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars]], French botanist (d. [[1831]])
* [[November 11]] 
** [[Carl Friedrich Zelter]], German composer (d. [[1832]])
** [[Caleb P. Bennett]], U.S. soldier, politician (d. [[1836]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[William Bradley (Royal Navy officer)|William Bradley]], British Royal Navy officer and cartographer (d. [[1833]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Peter Andreas Heiberg]], Danish author, philologist (d. [[1841]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans]] (d. [[1787]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Richard Colt Hoare]], English antiquarian, archaeologist (d. [[1838]])
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Jean Baptiste Eblé]], French general (d. [[1812]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Georges Antoine Chabot]], French jurist, statesman (d. [[1819]])
* [[Nicholas Fish]], U.S. Revolutionary soldier (d. [[1833]])
* [[Anthimos Gazis]], Greek scholar, philosopher (d. [[1828]])
* [[Samuel Hardy]], U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (d. [[1785]])
* [[Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama]] of Tibet (d. [[1804]])
* [[Charles Lee (attorney general)|Charles Lee]], U.S. Attorney General (d. [[1815]])
* [[Samuel Sterett]], American politician, U.S. Representative for Maryland (d. [[1833]])
* [[Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité]], Empress of Haiti (d. [[1858]])

=== Probable ===
* [[Kamehameha I]], King of Hawaii (d. c. [[1819]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Allan Ramsay (poet)|Allan Ramsay]], Scottish poet (b. [[1686]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton]], Scottish peer (b. [[1724]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[François Nicole]], French mathematician (b. [[1683]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Thomas Ripley (architect)|Thomas Ripley]], English architect (b. [[1683]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Pierre Guérin de Tencin]], French cardinal (b. [[1679]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington]], English politician (b. c. [[1705]])
* [[March 18]] 
** [[Matthew Hutton (archbishop of Canterbury)|Matthew Hutton]], Archbishop of Canterbury (b. [[1693]])
** [[Thomas Zebrowski]], Lithuanian Jesuit scientist (b. [[1714]])
[[File:Jonathan Edwards.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]]]]
* [[March 22]] 
** [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]], American minister (b. [[1703]])
** [[Richard Leveridge]], English bass and composer (b. [[1670]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Joseph Blanchard]], American soldier (b. [[1704]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Francesco Zerafa]], Maltese architect (b. [[1679]])
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Antoine de Jussieu]], French naturalist (b. [[1686]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[François d'Agincourt]], French composer (b. [[1684]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Pope Benedict XIV]] (b. [[1675]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach]] (b. [[1737]])
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Marguerite de Lussan]], French historical novelist (b. [[1682]])
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Antonio de los Reyes Correa]], Puerto Rican soldier (b. c. [[1665]])
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Prince Augustus William of Prussia]] (b. [[1722]])
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe]], British general (in battle) (b. c. [[1725]])
[[File:Marthanda Vurmah Maha Rajah.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Marthanda Varma]]]]
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Marthanda Varma]], Rani of Attingal (b. [[1706]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Ambrosius Stub]], Danish poet (b. [[1705]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Duncan Campbell (died 1758)|Duncan Campbell]], Scottish soldier
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington]], English noble (b. [[1675]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Pierre Bouguer]], French mathematician (b. [[1698]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin]], Russian soldier (b. [[1702]])
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Ulrika Eleonora von Düben]], Swedish lady in waiting (b. [[1722]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Barbara of Portugal]], Princess of Portugal and Queen of Spain (b. [[1711]])
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov]], Russian chemist (b. c. [[1720]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Adina Beg Khan]], Nawab of Punjab (b. [[1710]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory]] (b. [[1719]])
* [[October 2]] ''(bur.)'' &ndash; [[Philip Southcote]], English landscape gardener (b. [[1698]])
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth]], British field marshal (b. [[1680]])
[[File:Generalfeldmarschall Keith (Pesne).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[James Francis Edward Keith]]]]
* [[October 14]]
** [[Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]], daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. [[1709]])
** [[James Francis Edward Keith]], Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. [[1696]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough]], British politician (b. [[1706]])
* [[October 25]]/8 &ndash; [[Theophilus Cibber]], English actor (b. [[1703]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Hans Egede]], Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. [[1686]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[John Cockburn (Scottish politician)|John Cockburn]], Scottish politician (b. c. [[1679]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Johan Helmich Roman]], Swedish composer (b. [[1694]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe]], English politician (b. [[1680]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Senesino]], Italian singer (b. [[1686]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Fasch]], German composer (b. [[1688]])
[[File:Anonymous - Portrait présumé de Mme de Graffigny, née Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt (1695-1758), femme de lettres - P794 - Musée Carnavalet.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Françoise de Graffigny]]]]
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Françoise de Graffigny]], French lettrist (b. [[1695]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Andrzej Stanisław Załuski]], Polish-Lithuanian bishop (b. [[1695]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran]], Anglo-Irish noble (b. [[1671]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[James Hervey]], English clergyman, writer (b. [[1714]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel]], French dramatist, satirist (b. [[1677]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[François Mackandal]], Haitian revolutionary leader, burned at the stake (b. c. [[1730]])
* [[Nathaniel Meserve]], American shipwright (b. [[1704]])
* [[Hyder Ali]] and his [[Sepoy]] capture [[Bangalore]] from "Khande Rao of the [[Maratha Confederacy]]". (Part of the [[Seven Years' War]]).
* [[Verónica II of Matamba|Verónica II Guterres]], African monarch

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