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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1780 January 1 Johann Ludwig Krebs composer, dies at age 66. [1] January 2 Johann Ludwig Krebs composer, dies at age 66. [1] January 10 Francesco Antonio Vallotti Italian organist/composer, dies at age 82. [1] February 14 William Blackstone English lawyer, dies at age 56. [1] April 21 Ferdinand Zellbell composer, dies at age 60. [1] October 2 John Andre British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold, dies at age 30. [1] November 29 Maria Theresa leader of Austria, dies at age 63. [1] 1781 January 17 Marie de Negre Dables marquess, dies. [1] January 22 Johann Siebenkas composer, dies at age 66. [1] February 4 Josef Myslivecek composer, dies at age 43. [1] Willem Crul Admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle at age 59. [1] February 15 G E Lessing writer, dies at age 52. [1] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Saxon playwright/critic, dies. [1] February 28 Richard Stockton US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at age 50. [1] May 22 Garret Wesley Mornington composer, dies at age 45. [1] December 16 Georg Simon Lohlein composer, dies at age 56. [1] 1782 January 1 Death of Johann Christian Bach in London at age 46 (born in Leipzig, Germany); son of J. S. Bach, composer at the King's Theater; tutor of Mozart. [1] [37] January 4 Ange-Jacques Gabriel French architect (Ecole Military), dies at age 83. [1] January 18 Birth of Daniel Webster in Salisbury NH; orator/politician/lawyer, dies 1852. [1] [5] January 28 Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville French geographer, dies at age 84. [1] March 19 Adrien Trudo Sale composer, dies at age 59. [1] Louis-Henry Paisible composer, dies at age 33. [1] April 6 Rynoldus Popma van Oevering composer, dies at age 90. [1] April 22 Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger composer, dies at age 66. [1] May 16 Daniuel Charles Solander botanist, dies. [1] May 20 Carlo Giovanni Testori composer, dies at age 68. [1] Christoph Gottlieb Schroter composer, dies at age 82. [1] 1783 January 1 Jacobus Enschedé Haarlems printer, dies at age 39. [1] January 2 Death of Johann Bodmer near Zürich, Switzerland; historian, literary critic. [37] January 5 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt composer, dies on 73rd birthday. [1] February 6 Lancelot "Capability" Brown English architect (Kew), dies at about age 67. [1] February 10 James Nares composer, dies at age 67. [1] March 23 Gaspard Fritz composer, dies at age 67. [1] April 7 Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer composer, dies at age 71. [1] April 11 Nikita I Panin Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at age 64. [1] May 3 Pieter Valck(x) South Netherlands sculptor, dies at age 49. [1] May 23 James Otis American lawyer, dies. [1] December 9 First execution at English Newgate-jail. [1] December 16 Johann Adolf Hasse Dutch operatic composer (Sesostrate), dies at age 84. [1] December 20 Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler Sp composer (Fandango), dies at age 54. [1] 1784 January 1 Patrice F Earl de Nény South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at age 67. [1] January 11 Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz composer, dies at age 59. [1] February 13 Charles Gravier French earl of Vergennes/Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies. [1] February 24 Anton Laube composer, dies at age 65. [1] February 28 Phillis Wheatly poetess, dies. [1] April 2 Pierre Leclair composer, dies at age 74. [1] April 4 Mary Mead wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies. [1] April 10 Simon Fokke book illustrator, dies at age 71. [1] April 30 Franz K earl von Velbruck German free mason, dies. [1] May 10 Antoine Court de Gébelin French vicar/writer, dies at age 56. [1] December 5 Phillis Wheatley first important black poet in America, dies in Boston. [1] 1785 January 6 Haym Salomon dies in Philadelphia Pennsylvania at age 44, helped finance the revolution. [1] January 10 Death of Heinrich Wilhelm Stiegel in Charming Forge, Pennsylvania, USA; built two ironworks, manufactured of window glass and bottles, founded American Flint Glassworks. [37] February 6 Iman Willem Falck Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83), dies at age 48. [1] February 19 Johann Christoph Richter composer, dies at age 84. [1] February 24 Carlo Bonaparte Corsican attorney, dies at age 39. [1] April 26 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff composer, dies at age 40. [1] April 30 Frederick Philipse III land owner (Bronx, Westch and Putnam), dies at age 65. [1] May 8 Pietro Longhi painter, dies. [1] May 9 Franz Xaver Schnitzer composer, dies at age 44. [1] May 10 Etienne Joseph Floquet composer, dies at age 36. [1] May 15 Karel Blazej Kopriva composer, dies at age 29. [1] May 23 William Woollett engraver, dies. [1] December 8 Antonio Maria Mazzoni composer, dies at age 68. [1] December 29 Johann Heinrich Rolle composer, dies at age 69. [1] 1786 January 4 Moses Mendelssohn Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at age 56. [1] [37] February 20 Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht composer, dies at age 70. [1] March 7 Frantisek Benda composer, dies at age 76. [1] March 11 Jacobus Bellamy [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at age 28. [1] March 23 Patience Wright first US woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown). [1] April 20 John Goodricke English deaf and dumb astronomer, dies at age 21. [1] April 23 Alexander Cozens English water colors painter, dies at about age 68. [1] May 5 Pedro III King of Portugal, dies. [1] May 19 John Stanley composer, dies at age 74. [1] May 21 Carl W Scheele Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at age 43. [1] 1787 January 1 Arthur Middleton US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at age 44. [1] February 12 Ruggiero Boscovich Italian physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at age 75. [1] March 2 Jean Allamand French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at age 73. [1] March 11 Maximilian JLP Gardel French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at age 45. [1] May 13 Johann Michael Malzat composer, dies at age 38. [1] May 28 Johann Georg Leopold Mozart Austrian composer, dies at age 67. [1] 1788 January 5 Johann Schneider composer, dies at age 85. [1] January 15 Gaetano Latilla composer, dies at age 77. [1] January 17 Alessio Prati composer, dies at age 37. [1] January 31 Charles E Stuart English pretender to the throne, dies at age 67. [1] Francesco Zannetti composer, dies at age 50. [1] [Bonnie Prince] Charles E Stuart English pretender, dies at age 67. [1] February 20 Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at age 68. [1] February 22 Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel composer, dies at age 63. [1] March 1 Orazio Mei composer, dies at age 56. [1] March 29 Charles Wesley hymn writer, dies. [1] April 12 Carl Joseph Toeschi composer, dies at age 56. [1] Carlo Antonio Campioni composer, dies at age 67. [1] April 15 Giuseppi Bonno composer, dies at age 77. [1] April 22 Zacharias H Alewijn Dutch poet, dies 46. [1] May 12 Louis E van Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Austrian duke, dies at age 69. [1] May 29 Jacques Aliamet French etcher/engraver, dies at age 61. [1] December 12 Joseph Gibbs composer, dies at age 88. [1] December 14 Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach German composer, dies at age 74. [1] Carlos III King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at age 72. [1] December 25 John Logan Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about age 40. [1] December 30 Francesco Zuccarelli Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at age 86. [1] 1789 January 1 Christleib Siegmund Binder composer, dies at age 65. [1] January 2 Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee composer, dies at age 68. [1] January 10 Pierre Lyonet Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at age 82. [1] January 20 Johann Christoph Oley composer, dies at age 50. [1] February 2 Armand-Louis Couperin French composer/organist (Notre Dame), dies at age 63. [1] April 7 Abdül-Hamid I 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at age 64. [1] Peter Camper anatomist/animal scholar, dies at age 66. [1] April 26 Peter I Panin Russian General (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about age 67. [1] May 10 Guillaume Gommaire Kennis composer, dies at age 72. [1] August 25 Mary Ball Washington mother of George, dies. [1] December 3 Claude-Joseph Vernet French seascape painter, dies. [1] December 23 Charles-Michel abbé de l'Epéé (school for the deaf), dies at age 77. [1]