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1764 deaths

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William Hogarth

English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764)

Jean-Philippe Rameau

French composer and music theorist (1683–1764)

Madame de Pompadour

chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)

Ivan VI of Russia

The fifth Emperor of Russia (1740–1741)

William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Christian Goldbach

German mathematician

Pietro Locatelli

Italian Baroque composer and violinist (1695-1764)

Erik Pontoppidan

Danish author, bishop, historian and antiquary (1698–1764)

Johann Mattheson

German composer and theorist (1681-1764)

Francesco Algarotti

Italian philosopher (1712-1764)

Semyon Chelyuskin

Russian polar explorer and naval officer

Benito Jerónimo Feijoo

Spanish monk and scholar

Jean-Marie Leclair

French Baroque violinist and composer

Nathaniel Bliss

English astronomer (1700-1764)

Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697-1764)

Christian Friedrich Henrici

Christian Friedrich Henrici (January 14, 1700 – May 10, 1764), writing under the pen name Picander, was a German poet and librettist for many works by Johann Sebastian Bach, notably the St Matthew Passion of 1727.

Hans Adolph Brorson

Danish bishop (1694-1764)

Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

princess consort of Ostfriesland

Charles Churchill

British poet (1732–1764)

Frederick Augustus Rutowsky

German general (1702-1764)

Jonathan Eybeschutz

European Rabbi and author (1690-1764)

Okumura Masanobu

Japanese artist

Russian explorer

Sebastiano Conca

Italian painter (1680-1764)

Danish mathematician and astronomer (1679-1764)

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

English politician (1684-1764)

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

English lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor (1690-1764)

Swiss ingenieur and amateuer archaeologist

Marc Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson

French politician (1696-1764)

Giovanni Battista de' Rossi

Antonio Canevari

architect (1681–1764)

English painter (c.1686–1764)

Petru Pavel Aron

Romanian Greek Catholic Bishop of Făgăraș (1752-1764)

Herman Karl von Keyserling

Baltic German diplomat (1697-1765)

Yves Marie André

French Jesuit mathematician, philosopher, and essayist, best known for his Essai sur le Beau, a 1741 philosophical work on aesthetics

Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti

Catholic cardinal (1684-1764)

René-Michel Slodtz

French sculptor (1705-1764)

Constantin Racoviță

Prince of Wallachia

German scientist (1680-1764)

George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield

English astronomer (1697–1764)

Indian military leader

British entrepreneur and philanthropist (1693-1764)

Jens Schielderup Sneedorff

Pierre-Charles Roy

José Quer y Martínez

Spanish botanist (1695-1764)

Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel

German composer and organist

Italian painter (1684-1764)

Mikhail Golitsyn

admiral (1684-1764)

Anton Lazzaro Moro

Italian abbot and scientist (1687-1764)

Fath-Ali Khan Afshar

Domenico Dall'Oglio

Italian violinist and composer (died 1764)

Samuel Troilius

Swedish archbishop (1706-1764)

British writer and bookseller (1704-1764)

Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran

French admiral of the Seven Years' War (1696-1764)

Petrus Wesseling

German librarian, law librarian and writer

Cosimo Imperiali

Italian cardinal (1685-1764)

Johanna Marie Fosie

Danish artist (1726-1764)

Giuseppe Bianchini

Italian historian

Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon

Irish politician

Francesco Zucchi

Italian engraver, 1692-1764 (1692–1764)