| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 |
Jan 10 |
Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719) |
Jan 12 |
Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726) |
Feb 9 |
Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706) |
Feb 24 |
King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714) |
Mar 1 |
Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court) composer/pianist, dies at 62 |
Mar 22 |
John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77 |
May 11 |
George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719) |
May 16 |
Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds |
Jun 16 |
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709) |
Jun 22 |
Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71 |
Jul 13 |
Guillaume Coustou Jr, French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61 |
Jul 27 |
William Hayes, composer, dies at 69 |
Aug 17 |
Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, dies at 54 |
Aug 23 |
Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77 |
Sep 1 |
Johann Ernst Bach, composer, dies at 55 |
Sep 25 |
Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49 |
Oct 5 |
Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704) |
Oct 7 |
Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle |
Oct 13 |
Dismas Hatas, composer, dies at 52 |
Oct 21 |
Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720) |
Nov 10 |
Cornstalk, Shawnee chief |
Nov 30 |
Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74 |
Dec 12 |
Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69 |
Dec 12 |
Reverend Benjamin Russen, executed at Tyburn England for rape |
Dec 30 |
Maximilian III Jozef, elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50 |
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