Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 5 |
Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79 |
Jan 12 |
Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian, dies at 71 |
Jan 12 |
Joan Lucaz, Dutch scholar/journalist/patriot, dies at 60 |
Feb 5 |
Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80 |
Feb 6 |
John Reid, composer, dies at 85 |
Feb 18 |
August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53 |
Feb 18 |
S von Laroche, writer, dies at 75 |
Feb 23 |
Francois Guichard, composer, dies at 61 |
Mar 4 |
Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754) |
Mar 11 |
Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 41 |
Apr 1 |
Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69 |
Apr 1 |
Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61 |
Apr 4 |
Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies |
Apr 9 |
John Opie, Engl painter/illustrator: Shakespeare gallery, dies at 45 |
Apr 18 |
Erasmus Darwin, physician writer and botanist (Influence), dies (b. 1731) |
May 10 |
Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725) |
May 13 |
Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721) |
May 17 |
John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745) |
May 18 |
John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (b. 1721) |
Jul 13 |
Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725) |
Aug 15 |
Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 |
Aug 16 |
Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72 |
Aug 31 |
Christoph Friedrich Bretzner, Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
Sep 12 |
Edward Miller, composer, dies at 71 |
Sep 14 |
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724) |
Nov 2 |
Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730) |
Nov 23 |
Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747) |
Nov 24 |
Joseph Brant [Thayendanegea], Mohawk leader, dies at 64 |
Dec 3 |
Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies |
Dec 4 |
Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston |
Dec 19 |
Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723) |
Dec 21 |
John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (b. 1725) |
Dec 21 |
John Newton, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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