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1777 deaths

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Johann Heinrich Lambert

German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777)

José I of Portugal

King of Portugal from 1750 to 1777

Albrecht von Haller

Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708-1777)

Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria

Duke of Bavaria (1727-1777)

Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben

German scientist

Alexander Sumarokov

Russian poet, playwright

Maksym Berezovsky

Ukrainian composer

Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

French writer (1707-1777)

Charles de Brosses

French writer (1709–1777)

Georg Christoph Wagenseil

Austrian composer

American botanist (1699-1777)

Chinese scholar

Dolly Pentreath

last known native speaker of the Cornish language prior to its revival in 1904

Bernard de Jussieu

French botanist (1699-1777)

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

French poet (1709-1777)

Charles-Joseph Natoire

French painter (1700-1777)

Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin

French salon-holde (1695–1777)

Nawab of Bengal

Johann Andreas Segner

Hungarian mathematician (1704-1777)

Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz

Countess of Nassau-Dietz by birth, Margravine of Baden-Durlach by marriage (1710-1777)

Button Gwinnett

American politician (1735-1777)

Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria

Spanish infante

William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1724-1777)

Enrichetta d'Este

Duchess of Parma (1702-1777)

Princess Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt

Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt and of Hesse-Kassel

Pratap Singh Shah

King of Nepal (1751-1777)

farmer, surveyor, and jurist from the Province of Pennsylvania (1725-1777)

Celia Grillo Borromeo

Italian mathematician and scientist

Johann Ernst Bach

German composer (1722-1777)

Cornelia Schlosser

German author of letters and sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1750-1777)

Native American in the American Revolution

Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet

Royal Navy officer during the War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War, later admiral

Anton Cajetan Adlgasser

German organist and composer

Guillaume Coustou the Younger

sculptor from France (1716-1777)

Giuseppe Scarlatti

Italian composer (1723-1777)

Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski

Polish nobleman (1711-1777)

Irish-born soldier, diplomat and minister in the Spanish service (1694-1777)

Grigore III Ghica

Prince of Moldavia

Sebastian Sailer

Premonstratensian preacher and writer

Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon

French cardinal

Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1727-1777)

Buenaventura de Córdoba Espínola de la Cerda

Spanish cardinal (1724-1777)

The second Khan of Zand dynasty (1779)

Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart

Catholic cardinal (1708-1777)

Empress Xiaoshengxian

consort of the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty

Princess Benedetta d'Este of Modena

Luigi Maria Torregiani

Catholic cardinal (1697-1777)

Ivazzade Halil Paşa

Ottoman grand vizier (1724–1777)

Antun Kanižlić

Croatian Jesuit and poet

Giovanni Giacomo Grimaldi

British dramatist

Jacobite and General in the American Revolutionary War

Archibald Bulloch

lawyer and politician (1730-1777)

Pierre Contant d'Ivry

French architect (1698–1777)

Francesco Maria Zanotti

Italian philosopher (1692-1777)

Tekle Haymanot II

Ethiopian emperor (1754-1777)

German musician

Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk

British peer (1685-1777)

Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin

French politician