Famous Deaths for Year 1788
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Deaths 1 - 43 of 43
Jan 5th - Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 85
Jan 14th - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
Jan 15th - Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
Jan 17th - Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37
Jan 31st - Francesco Zannetti, composer, dies at 50
Jan 31st - [Bonnie Prince Charlie] Charles E Stuart, English pretender to the throne, dies at 67
Feb 18th - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)
Feb 20th - Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68
Feb 21st - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
Feb 22nd - Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63
Feb 28th - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)
Mar 1st - Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56
Mar 29th - Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies
Apr 12th - Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer, dies at 56
Apr 12th - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer, dies at 67
Apr 15th - Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77
Apr 16th - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
Apr 22nd - Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46
May 8th - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723)
May 29th - Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61
Jun 12th - Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65
Jun 18th - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
Jun 28th - Johann Christoph Vogel, composer, dies at 32
Jul 14th - Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer, dies at 60
Aug 2nd - Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61
Aug 8th - Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92
Aug 14th - Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies
Sep 14th - John Penn, US attorney, signed (Decl of Independence), dies at 47
Sep 14th - Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer, dies at 56
Sep 26th - Francois Bainville, composer, dies at 63
Oct 13th - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
Oct 15th - Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
Oct 18th - Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56
Nov 1st - Johann Samuel Schroeter, composer, dies
Nov 15th - Peregrinus Pogl, composer, dies at 77
Nov 28th - Charles C of Nassau-Weilburg, governor of Maastricht, dies at about 53
Dec 6th - Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
Dec 12th - Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88
Dec 14th - Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74
Dec 14th - Carlos III, King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at 72
Dec 22nd - Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
Dec 25th - John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40
Dec 30th - Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86
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