page_title: 1758
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1758 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Marthanda Vurmah Maha Rajah
context_page_description: 1758 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1758th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 758th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1758, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 7 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
  January 17 – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (b. 1724)
  January 18 – François Nicole, French mathematician (b. 1683)
  February 10 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1683)
  March 2 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (b. 1679)
  March 6 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. c. 1705)
  March 18
  Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693)
  Thomas Zebrowski, Lithuanian Jesuit scientist (b. 1714)
  March 22
  Jonathan Edwards, U.S. minister (b. 1703)
  Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
  April 7 – Joseph Blanchard, American soldier (b. 1704)
  April 21 – Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (b. 1679)
  April 22 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
  April 30 – François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)
  May 3 – Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
  May 28 – Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach (b. 1737)
  June 3 – Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (b. 1671)
  June 9 – Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Puerto Rican soldier
  June 12 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
  July 6 – George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (in battle) (b. c. 1725)
  July 7 – Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (b. 1706)
  July 15 – Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (b. 1705)
  July 18 – Duncan Campbell, Scottish soldier
  August 2 – George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (b. 1675)
  August 15 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)
  August 17 – Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin, Russian soldier (b. 1702)
  August 23 – Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish lady in waiting (b. 1722)
  August 27 – Barbara of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and Queen of Spain (b. 1711)
  September 5 – Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, Russian chemist (b. c. 1720)
  September 23 – John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (b. 1719)
  October 2 (bur.) – Philip Southcote, English landscape gardener (b. 1698)
  October 12 – Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
  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 – Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician (b. 1706)
  October 25/8 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor (b. 1703)
  November 5 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
  November 12 – John Cockburn, Scottish politician
  November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
  November 22 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician (b. 1680)
  November 27 – Senesino, Italian singer (b. 1686)
  December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)
  December 12 – Françoise de Graffigny, French lettrist (b. 1695)
  December 16 – Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (b. 1695)
  December 25 – James Hervey, English clergyman, writer (b. 1714)
  December 26 – François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist, satirist (b. 1677)
caption: Marthanda Varma
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