page_title: 1768
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1768 / Deaths
context_page_description: 1768 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1768th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 768th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1768, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 20 – Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet (b. 1702)
  February 1 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685)
  February 2 – Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
  February 8 – George Dance the Elder, British architect (b. 1695)
  February 17 – Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691)
  February 29 – John Mitchell, colonial American physician and botanist (b. 1711)
  March 1 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher, writer (b. 1694)
  March 3
  Francis Fauquier, English statesman and Royal Governor of Virginia since 1758 (b. 1703)
  Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (b. 1686)
  March 11 – Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, Italian architect (b. 1702)
  March 18 – Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
  April 9 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (b. 1710)
  April 19 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
  April 29 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist, mineralogist (b. 1694)
  May 30 – Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford, British earl and politician (b. 1715)
  June 8 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar, archaeologist (b. 1717)
  June 15 – James Short, Scottish mathematician (b. 1710)
  June 19 – Benjamin Tasker, Provincial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
  June 28 – George Hadley, English lawyer and amateur meteorologist (b. 1685)
  July 6 – Conrad Beissel, German-born American religious leader (b. 1691)
  July 11 – José de Nebra, Spanish composer (b. 1702)
  July 24 – Nathaniel Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
  August 3 – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693)
  August 17 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
  September 2 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
  September 11 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (b. 1688)
  October 1 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)
  October 8 – Pierre Simon Fournier, French typographer (b. 1712)
  October 17 – Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1691)
  October 28 – Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700)
  October 31 – Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
  November 14 – John Bristow, English merchant, politician (b. 1701)
  November 16 – Hans von Lehwaldt, German general (b. 1685)
  November 17 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
  December 8 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary, painter (b. 1702)
  December 14 – Ulla Tessin, Swedish countess (b. 1711)
  December 20 – Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
  date unknown – Elsie Marley, English alewife (b. 1713)
caption: Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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