1770s deaths

Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin (19 September 1705 – c. 1778) was a French harpsichordist, the first woman to hold the position of ordinaire de la musique de la chambre du roi pour le clavecin (court musician to the King of France).

Mikhail Dmitrievich Levashov (Russian: Михаи́л Дми́триевич Левашо́в; c. 1738–1774-76) was a Russian explorer and Lieutenant of the Imperial Russian Navy. After Vitus Bering's 1741 tragic venture he was, together with Peter Kuzmich Krenitzin, among the first to conduct an expedition to Alaska and the Aleutians.

Sadhak Rāmprasād Sen (Bengali: রামপ্রসাদ সেন; c. 1718 or c. 1723 – c. 1775) was a Hindu Shakta poet and saint of eighteenth century Bengal. His bhakti poems, known as Ramprasadi, are still popular in Bengal—they are usually addressed to the Hindu goddess Kali and written in Bengali. Stories of Ramprasad's life typically include legends and myths mixed with biographical details.

John Morell (17 February 1733–c. 1776) was an American merchant, planter, and slaveholder.

Cristóbal Cabral (?-?) was a Spanish army officer. He served in the cavalry participating in the actions tending to control the advance of the aborigines (Pampas) against the civil populations in the Argentine territory.

Sarah Pue (died 1777?) was an Irish printer, publisher, patent medicine seller, and proprietor of Dick's Coffee House.

Michał Olszewski (Lithuanian: Mykolas Olševskis also Ališauskis, Alšauskis, Olšauskis; c. – c.) was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Canons Regular of the Penitence of the Blessed Martyrs from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1753, he published a Lithuanian-language collection of religious readings Broma atwerta ing wiecznastį... (The Gate Open to Eternity) which became very popular and over the next hundred years was reprinted at least sixteen more times. Despite its popularity, Broma was criticized both for its naive content and impure language full of loanwords and barbarisms.

Prince Demah (c.—March 1778) was an American painter of African ancestry who was formerly enslaved and active in Boston in the late 1700s. According to The Metropolitan Museum of Art Demah is "the only known enslaved artist working in colonial America whose paintings have survived."

Anton Giuseppe Barbazza (c. 1720- died after 1771) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period. He was born in Rome, moved to Bologna, and in 1771 moved to Spain. In Rome, he had engraved the prints for Francesco Bianchini's L’istoria universale provata coi monumenti, published first in 1697 and reissued in 1747.

Farin de Hautemer (c. 1700 in Rouen – c.1770 id) was an 18th-century French playwright and actor.