Famous Deaths for Year 1766
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Months in Year 1766: January February March April May June July September October November December
Deaths 1 - 26 of 26
Jan 1st - James III Edward, Old Pretender/king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies at 77
Jan 9th - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
Jan 13th - King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
Jan 14th - Frederik V, king of Denmark/Norway (1746-66), dies at 42
Jan 21st - James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
Feb 5th - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
Feb 23rd - Stanislaw Leszcynski, duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies
Feb 26th - August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer, dies at 30
Mar 3rd - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer, dies at 73
Mar 25th - Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26
Apr 4th - John Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
Apr 7th - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch classicist, dies at 81
May 5th - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
May 8th - Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693)
Jun 11th - Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain, dies at 73
Jun 24th - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)
Jul 9th - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
Jul 11th - Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
Jul 14th - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
Jul 20th - Isabelle Farnese, queen of Spain, dies
Sep 3rd - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
Sep 13th - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
Oct 7th - Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71
Nov 9th - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
Nov 16th - Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, dies at 81
Dec 12th - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
