| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 12 |
Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691) |
Jan 15 |
Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718) |
Jan 17 |
Marie de Negre Dables, marquess, dies |
Jan 22 |
Johann Siebenkas, composer, dies at 66 |
Feb 4 |
Josef Myslivecek, composer, dies at 43 |
Feb 4 |
Willem Crul, admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle at 59 |
Feb 15 |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Saxon playwright/critic, dies at 52 |
Feb 15 |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan der Weise |
Feb 23 |
George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc. 1716) |
Feb 24 |
Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713) |
Feb 28 |
Richard Stockton, US attorney (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 50 |
Mar 18 |
Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727) |
Apr 23 |
James Abercrombie, British general (b. 1706) |
Apr 28 |
Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723) |
May 8 |
Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715) |
May 18 |
Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru (b. 1742) |
May 22 |
Garret Wesley Mornington, composer, dies at 45 |
May 27 |
Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716) |
Jul 11 |
Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer, dies at 60 |
Jul 23 |
John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724) |
Jul 29 |
Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713) |
Jul 30 |
Augustin Ullinger, composer, dies at 35 |
Sep 28 |
William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717) |
Oct 9 |
Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49 |
Oct 16 |
Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705) |
Oct 27 |
Herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66 |
Nov 2 |
Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78 |
Nov 4 |
Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721) |
Nov 22 |
John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 57 |
Nov 24 |
James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734) |
Dec 16 |
Georg Simon Lohlein, composer, dies at 56 |
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