Famous Deaths for Year 1785

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Deaths 1 - 38 of 38

Jan 3rd - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
Jan 6th - Haym Salomon, dies in Phila at 44, helped finance the revolution
Jan 19th - Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
Jan 23rd - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
Feb 6th - Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83), dies at 48
Feb 19th - Johann Christoph Richter, composer, dies at 84
Feb 24th - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39
Apr 14th - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
Apr 26th - Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40
Apr 30th - Frederick Philipse 3, land owner (Bronx, Westch & Putnam), dies at 65
May 8th - Pietro Longhi, painter, dies
May 8th - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
May 9th - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44
May 10th - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer, dies at 36
May 15th - Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer, dies at 29
May 23rd - William Woollett, engraver, dies
Jun 2nd - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
Jun 5th - Gottfried August Homilius, composer, dies at 71
Jun 6th - Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36
Jun 25th - Pierre Talon, composer, dies at 63
Jun 25th - Pieter Kintsius, VOC-supercarga/chief on Macau, dies at 53
Jun 27th - Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent, dies at 84
Jun 30th - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
Jul 13th - Stephen Hopkins, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 78
Aug 14th - John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies
Aug 17th - Jonathan Trumbull, US patriot, dies
Aug 21st - Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies
Aug 26th - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
Oct 4th - David Brearly, American statesman (b. 1703)
Oct 24th - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer, dies at 64
Oct 30th - Gustaf P Creutz, Swedish diplomat/poet (Daphne), dies at 54
Nov 18th - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
Nov 19th - Bernard de Bury, composer, dies at 65
Nov 25th - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
Nov 28th - William Whipple, merchant/judge/signer (US Declaration of Independence), dies at 55
Dec 8th - Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer, dies at 68
Dec 29th - Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69
Dec 29th - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)


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