Date | Event |
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Jan 9 |
Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea earl of Aranda, Spanish officer, dies at 79 |
Jan 20 |
Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master, dies at 66 |
Jan 22 |
Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 71 |
Jan 22 |
Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66 |
Jan 26 |
Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49 |
Feb 6 |
Niels Schiorring, composer, dies at 54 |
Feb 13 |
Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24 |
Feb 25 |
Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716) |
Mar 22 |
Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51 |
Apr 11 |
Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725) |
Apr 29 |
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723) |
May 10 |
George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40 |
May 19 |
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722) |
Jun 4 |
Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer/writer/librarian and womanizer, dies at 73 |
Jun 4 |
Giacomo Casanova, Fellini's Casanova |
Jun 25 |
Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721) |
Jun 26 |
Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56 |
Jun 28 |
Pierre Dutillieu, composer, dies at 44 |
Jun 29 |
Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], exerciser, dies |
Jul 2 |
John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies |
Jul 15 |
Gaetano Pugnani, composer, dies at 66 |
Jul 21 |
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733) |
Aug 1 |
François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753) |
Aug 7 |
Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65 |
Aug 15 |
Felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50 |
Aug 21 |
Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 |
Aug 24 |
Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709) |
Aug 28 |
James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 55 |
Sep 16 |
Damasus Brosmann, composer, dies at 67 |
Sep 21 |
George Read, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 65 |
Oct 21 |
Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71 |
Nov 19 |
Theobald W Tone, Irish nationalist, dies |
Nov 30 |
Friedrich Fleischmann, German composer, dies at 32 |
Dec 4 |
Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61 |
Dec 9 |
Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729) |
Dec 19 |
Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62 |
Dec 20 |
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72 |
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