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Months in Year 1774: January February April May July August September October December

Deaths 1 - 24 of 24

Jan 21st - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717). Reigns 1757 to 1774. Dies at 56
Jan 30th - Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer, dies at 69
Jan 30th - Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer, dies at 71
Feb 4th - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
Feb 10th - Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, dies at 44
Apr 4th - Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17
Apr 23rd - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies
May 4th - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714)
May 10th - Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64
Jul 1st - Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68
Jul 7th - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer, dies at 83
Jul 11th - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
Jul 14th - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
Aug 11th - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
Aug 14th - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716)
Aug 25th - Nicolo Jommelli, composer, dies at 59
Sep 22nd - Clement XIV, [Giovanni Ganganelli], Pope (1769-74), dies
Sep 25th - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
Oct 13th - Willem Bentinck, mister of Rhoon/Pendrecht/Orangist, dies at 69
Oct 16th - Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies
Oct 23rd - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
Dec 2nd - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54
Dec 13th - Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50
Dec 16th - Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80