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Months in Year 1777: January February March May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 26 of 26

Jan 1st - Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58
Jan 10th - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
Jan 12th - Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
Feb 9th - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
Feb 24th - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
Mar 1st - Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court) composer/pianist, dies at 62
Mar 22nd - John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77
May 11th - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)
May 16th - Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
Jun 16th - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
Jun 22nd - Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71
Jul 13th - Guillaume Coustou Jr, French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61
Jul 27th - William Hayes, composer, dies at 69
Aug 17th - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, dies at 54
Aug 23rd - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77
Sep 1st - Johann Ernst Bach, composer, dies at 55
Sep 25th - Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49
Oct 5th - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
Oct 7th - Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
Oct 13th - Dismas Hatas, composer, dies at 52
Oct 21st - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
Nov 10th - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
Nov 30th - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74
Dec 12th - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69
Dec 12th - Reverend Benjamin Russen, executed at Tyburn England for rape
Dec 30th - Maximilian III Jozef, elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50