George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Apr 14 German-British baroque composer and organist (Messiah; Water Music), dies at 74
- May 12 Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor, dies at 58
- Jun 12 William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37
- Jun 19 Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31
- Jul 6 William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier, dies at 63
- Jul 25 Johann Christoph Altnikol, German organist, bass singer, composer, and J.S. Bach's son-in-law and copyist, dies at 39
- Jul 25 Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies at 59
- Jul 27 Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician and astronomer (Système de la nature), dies at 60
- Aug 6 Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
- Aug 8 Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor, opera composer (Der Tod Jesu), and Royal Kapellmeister to Frederick the Great (1740-59), dies at 55
- Aug 10 Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain (1746-59), dies at 46
- Aug 24 Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44
- Sep 4 Girolamo Chiti, Italian composer and music theorist, dies at 80
- Sep 10 Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer and Jesuit missionary, dies at 55
James Wolfe (1727-1759)
Sep 13 British Army officer who defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec, dies in battle at 32
- Sep 14 Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (led French forces in North America during Seven Years War), dies fighting Battle of the Plains of Abraham at 47 [1]
- Sep 28 Cornelis Pronk, Dutch portrait painter and cartoonist, dies at 67
- Oct 10 Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
- Oct 13 John Henley, English clergyman, dies at 64
- Nov 29 Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
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