Famous Deaths for Year 1779
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Months in Year 1779: January February April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 35 of 35
Jan 3rd - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
Jan 20th - John Burman, Dutch botanist/director (botanical gardens), dies at 71
Jan 20th - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
Jan 22nd - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
Jan 22nd - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
Feb 2nd - Georg Philipp Kress, composer, dies at 59
Feb 7th - William Boyce, composer, dies at 67
Feb 14th - James Cook, British explorer killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii at 50
Feb 16th - William Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies
Feb 24th - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
Feb 27th - Jan Nepveu, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59
Apr 6th - Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer (Farnace), dies at 52
Apr 24th - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
May 3rd - John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
May 11th - John Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68
Jun 7th - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
Jun 16th - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
Jun 23rd - Ras Mikael Sehul, warlord of Ethiopia (b. about 1691)
Jun 29th - Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51
Captain/Explorer James Cook (Feb 14th)
Jul 14th - George Ross, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 49
Aug 3rd - Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist, dies at 27
Aug 24th - Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
Sep 2nd - Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66
Sep 12th - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)
Oct 11th - Casimir Pułaski, Polish born fighter for American independence (b. 1745) dies in Battle of Savannah
Oct 28th - Raphael Weiss, composer, dies at 66
Nov 10th - Joseph Hewes, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 49
Nov 13th - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, dies at 61
Nov 16th - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)
Dec 6th - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
Dec 8th - Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
Dec 15th - Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer, dies at 62
Dec 18th - Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68
Dec 23rd - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)
Dec 28th - Gennaro Manna, composer, dies at 64
