Famous Deaths for Year 1778
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Months in Year 1778: January February March April May June July August September November
Deaths 1 - 34 of 34
Jan 4th - Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57
Jan 10th - Carolus Linaeus "Carl von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70
Feb 15th - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer, dies at 80
Feb 18th - Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715)
Feb 20th - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711)
Mar 5th - Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67
Mar 7th - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
Mar 13th - Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
Apr 7th - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
Apr 8th - Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76
Apr 22nd - James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies
May 11th - William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69
May 16th - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)
May 30th - Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42
Jun 7th - Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62
Jun 12th - Philip Livingston, American merchant (signed Declaration of Independance), dies at 62
Jun 16th - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
Jun 24th - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
Jun 26th - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77
Philosophe Voltaire (May 30th)
Jul 2nd - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66
Jul 2nd - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer
Jul 3rd - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
Jul 3rd - Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
Jul 28th - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68
Aug 4th - Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698)
Aug 5th - Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22
Aug 5th - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
Aug 12th - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
Aug 14th - Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
Aug 28th - Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies
Sep 23rd - Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian, dies at 83
Nov 9th - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58
Nov 20th - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
Nov 26th - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68
