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1768 deaths

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Laurence Sterne

Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (1713–1768)

Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library (1717–1768)

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Prime Minister of Great Britain (1693-1768)

Marie Leszczyńska

Queen Consort of France (1703–1768)

Italian composer

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle

French astronomer

Swedish chemist and mineralogist

Hermann Samuel Reimarus

German philosopher

Francesco Maria Veracini

Italian composer

Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

British mathematician; (1687-1768)

Eggert Ólafsson

Icelandic writer and explorer (1726-1768)

French flutist and composer (1700-1768)

François de Cuvilliés

Bavarian architect (1695–1768)

British lawyer and meteorologist

Princess Louisa of Great Britain

British princess

Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe

French prince of the house of Bourbons

Giuseppe Simone Assemani

Maronite orientalist (1687-1768)

British mathematician (1710-1768)

Charles Étienne Louis Camus

French mathematician

Peter Collinson

English botanist (1694-1768)

English surgeon; (1672-1768)

18th c. Venetian senator and poet

Jean Denis Attiret

French painter (1702-1768)

Pierre Simon Fournier

French typographer

Philipp Friedrich Gmelin

German professor of botany and chemistry (1721-1768)

Armenian musician, writer, artist and scientist

Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin

French composer and musician

William Henry of Nassau-Saarbrücken

Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1718–1768)

British botanist (1699-1768)

Egidio Forcellini

Italian philologist (1688-1768)

Pieter van Maldere

Flemish violinist and composer (1729-1768)

Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet

French abbot and writer (1682-1768)

Giovanni Battista Vaccarini

Italian architect (1702-1768)

Mexican painter (1695-1768)

Hans von Lehwaldt

colonial American doctor and botanist (1711-1768)

Archbishop of Canterbury

Filippo della Valle

Italian artist (1698-1768)

Teimuraz of Imereti

King of Imerati (died 1868)

Ukrainian Cossack rebel

Johann Valentin Tischbein

German painter (1715-1768)

French painter (1692-1768)

Inocențiu Micu-Klein

Romanian bishop

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti

Italian painter (1692-1768)

English Anglican priest who discovered the active ingredient of aspirin

Johann Julius Hecker

German educator

Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni

Italian poet (1692-1768)

Pavle Nenadović

Serbian Orthodox Archbishop of Karlovci, from 1749 to 1768

Charles Cressent

French master sculptor and cabinetmaker (1685-1768)

Francesco Maria Della Rovere

Antoine Deparcieux

French mathematician

Michał Józef Massalski

Polish-Lithuanian nobleman

Joseph Ignaz Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt

Roman Catholic bishop (1699-1768)

Jaya Prakash Malla

Paula de Odivelas

English mathematician and music theorist (1689-1768)

Portuguese architect (1677-1768)