List: 1768 deaths

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•  Laurence Sterne

  Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption.

  

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•  Robert Simson

  Robert Simson (14 October 1687 – 1 October 1768) was a British mathematician and professor of mathematics. The pedal line of a triangle is sometimes called the "Simson line" after him.

  

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•  Thomas Secker

  Thomas Secker (1693 – 3 August 1768), Archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Sibthorpe, Nottinghamshire.

  

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•  Hermann Samuel Reimarus

  Hermann Samuel Reimarus (December 22, 1694, Hamburg – March 1, 1768, Hamburg), was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on revelation. He denied the reality of miracles and is credited by some with initiating historians' investigation of the historical Jesus.

  

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•  Nathaniel Lardner

  Nathaniel Lardner (6 June 1684 – 24 July 1768) was an English theologian

  

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•  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann (December 9, 1717 – June 8, 1768), a German art historian and archaeologist, was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. "The prophet and founding hero of modern archaeology," Winckelmann was one of the founders of scientific archaeology and first applied the categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the history of art. Many consider him the father of the discipline of art history.

  

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•  James Short

  James Short (June 10 O.S. 1710 – June 15, 1768) was a British mathematician, optician and telescope maker. Born at Edinburgh in 1710 and originally educated for the church at the Royal High School, Short attracted the attention of Maclaurin, professor of mathematics at the university, who around 1732 gave him permission to use his rooms in the college buildings for experiments in the construction of telescopes.

  

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•  Canaletto

  Giovanni Antonio Canal (28 October 1697 – 19 April 1768) better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.

  

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•  Lawrence Brockett

  Lawrence Brockett (1724 – 12 July 1768) was the youngest of five sons born to Lawrence Brockett and Anne Clarke. He inherited from his parents Headlam Hall, a country house near Gainford, County Durham. The house was originally built by Henry Birkbeck, Lawrence’s maternal great great grandfather. Brockett was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1747 and becoming a fellow of Trinity in 1749. Brockett was tutor to James Lowther (1736–1802), 1st Earl of Lonsdale.

  

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•  Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni

  Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni (November 21, 1692 – December 20, 1768) was an Italian poet.

  

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

  

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•  Georg Brandt

  Georg Brandt (26 June 1694 – 29 April 1768) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered cobalt (c.1735). He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times. Brandt was born in Riddarhyttan, Skinnskatteberg parish, Västmanland County to Jurgen Brandt, a mineowner and pharmacist, and Katarina Ysing. He was professor of chemistry at Uppsala University, and died in Stockholm.

  

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•  Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin

  Count Alexey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (June 1, 1693 – April 21, 1768), Grand Chancellor of Russia, was one of the most influential and successful European diplomats of the 18th century. He was chiefly responsible for Russian foreign policy during the reign of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna.

  

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•  Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet

  Field Marshal Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet (3 July 1685 – 1 February 1768) was a British cavalry officer.

  

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•  Arthur Onslow

  Arthur Onslow (1 October 1691 – 17 February 1768) was an English politician. He was the elder son of Foot Onslow (died 1710) and his wife Susannah. Onslow was born in Kensington and educated at The Royal Grammar School, Guildford and Winchester College and matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1708, although he took no degree. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1713, but had no great practice in law.

  

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•  Nicola Porpora

  Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (or Niccolò Porpora) (17 August 1686 – 3 March 1768) was an Italian composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli.

  

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•  George Hadley

  George Hadley (February 12, 1685 – June 28, 1768) was an English lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the Trade Winds are sustained. As a key factor in ensuring that European sailing vessels reached North American shores, understanding the Trade Winds was becoming a matter of great importance at the time.

  

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•  Francesco Maria Veracini

  Francesco Maria Veracini (1 February 1690 – 31 October 1768) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.

  

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•  Robert Smith (mathematician)

  Robert Smith (1689 – 2 February 1768) was an English mathematician and music theorist. Smith was probably born at Lea near Gainsborough, the son of the rector of Gate Burton, Lincolnshire. After attending Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Gainsborough he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1708, and becoming minor fellow in 1714, major fellow in 1715 and senior fellow in 1739, was chosen Master in 1742, in succession to Richard Bentley.

  

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•  Maria Leszczyńska

  

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•  John Martyn (botanist)

  John Martyn or Joannis Martyn (12 September 1699 – 29 January 1768) was an English botanist. Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum (1728–1737), and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues (1749) and Georgics (1741) of Virgil. On resigning the botanical chair at Cambridge he presented the university with a number of his botanical specimens and books. Martyn was born in London, the son of a merchant.

  

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•  Vasily Trediakovsky

  Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky was a Russian poet, essayist and playwright who helped lay the foundations of classical Russian literature. Trediakovsky was a Russian literary theoretician and poet whose writings contributed to the classical foundations of Russian literature. The son of a poor priest, Trediakovsky became the first Russian not of the nobility to receive a humanistic education abroad, at the Sorbonne in Paris (1727–30) where he studied philosophy, linguistics and mathematics.

  

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•  Conrad Beissel

  Johann Conrad Beissel (March 1, 1691 – July 6, 1768) was the German-born religious leader who in 1732 founded the Ephrata Community in Pennsylvania.

  

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•  John Erskine of Carnock

  John Erskine of Carnock (see was a Scottish jurist and professor of Scottish law at the University of Edinburgh. He wrote the Principles of the Law of Scotland and the Institutes of the Law of Scotland, prominent books on Scots law.

  

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•  George Dance the Elder

  George Dance the Elder (1695 – 8 February 1768) was an English architect of the 18th century. He served as the City of London surveyor and architect from 1735 until his death. Among his public buildings in London, the most important is the neo-Palladian Mansion House (1739–1752).

  

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