Famous Deaths for Year 1768
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Months in Year 1768: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 35 of 35
Jan 1st - Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73
Jan 10th - Charles Cressent, French court furniture maker, dies at 82
Jan 28th - John Wainwright, composer, dies at 44
Feb 1st - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685)
Feb 2nd - Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
Feb 8th - George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695)
Feb 17th - Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691)
Mar 1st - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
Mar 3rd - Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer, dies at 81
Mar 14th - Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58
Mar 18th - Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies
Mar 21st - Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-gen of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75
Apr 7th - Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78
Apr 19th - Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70
Apr 20th - Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70
Apr 29th - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
May 16th - Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81
May 27th - Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies
Jun 8th - Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50
Jun 15th - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
Jun 19th - Benjamin Tasker, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
Jul 4th - Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58
Jul 6th - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer, dies at 78
Jul 11th - Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer, dies at 66
Jul 24th - Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
Aug 17th - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
Sep 2nd - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
Oct 1st - Robert Simson, Scotland mathematician, dies at 80
Oct 28th - Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68
Oct 31st - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer, dies at 78
Nov 1st - Pierre van Maldere, composer, dies at 39
Nov 4th - Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer, dies at 57
Nov 17th - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle, dies at 75
Dec 8th - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702)
Dec 20th - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
