Famous Deaths for Year 1762
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Months in Year 1762: January February March April May June July August September October
Deaths 1 - 26 of 26
Jan 5th - Elizabeth of Russia [Elizaveta Petrovna], tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52
Jan 11th - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
Jan 13th - Leonhard Trautsch, composer, dies at 68
Feb 11th - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, dies at 71
Feb 12th - Laurent Belissen, composer, dies at 68
Feb 20th - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
Mar 4th - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
Mar 21st - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
Apr 23rd - Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67
May 16th - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86
May 24th - Joseph Umstatt, composer, dies at 51
May 26th - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
Jun 17th - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674)
Jun 19th - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer, dies at 60
Jul 6th - Peter III Feodorovich, tsar of Russia (1761-62), murdered at 34
Jul 10th - Johann F Gronovius, physician/botany, dies at 76
Jul 13th - James Bradley, 3rd Astronomer Royal, dies
Jul 14th - Cornelis Hop, Amsterdams regent/diplomat, dies at 77
Jul 16th - Jacques Hotteterre, composer, dies at 87
Jul 17th - Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34
Jul 20th - Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies
Jul 28th - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
Aug 13th - John Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64
Aug 21st - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
Sep 17th - Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, composer, dies at 74
Oct 6th - Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, dies at 78
