<Ul> <Li> January 21--Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b . 1717) </Li> <Li> January 30--František Tůma, Czech composer (b . 1704) </Li> <Li> February 4--Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician, geographer (b . 1701) </Li> <Li> February 10--Florian Leopold Gassmann, German composer (b . 1729) </Li> <Li> March 30--Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (b . 1721) </Li> <Li> April 4--Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer (b . 1728) </Li> <Li> April 24--Sara Banzet, French educator, diarist (b . 1745) </Li> <Li> May 4--Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick - Lüneburg (b . 1714) </Li> </Ul> <Li> January 21--Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b . 1717) </Li> <Li> January 30--František Tůma, Czech composer (b . 1704) </Li> <Li> February 4--Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician, geographer (b . 1701) </Li>

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