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Julie Bondeli
Swiss salon-holder and letter writer
Safiye Sultan
daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II
Raja Lumu
Bugis warrior and first Sultan of Selangor
Shmelke of Nikolsburg
Hasidic rebbe.
Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz
German theologian and conchologist (1730–1800)
Brizio Giustiniani
politician
Ferdinando Spinola
politician
Christian Mauritius of Königsegg-Rothenfels
Austrian Field Marshal
Philip Wolodkowicz
Roman Catholic archbishop
Joseph Stepling
Bohemian physicist (1716-1778)
Antonio Vandini
Italian composer
Quirino Gasparini
Italian composer
Baltazar Adam Krčelić
Croatian historian, theologian and jurist
Catherine Read
British artist (1723-1778)
Princess Amalia d'Este of Modena
princess of Modena and Reggio (1699-1778)
Élisabeth Duparc
French opera singer
Georg David Matthieu
German painter (1737-1778)
Johannes Ringk
German composer and organist
Benjamin Church
American Revolution spy (1734 – 1778)
Hélène-Louise Demars
French composer
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
British diplomat
Ferdinando Bonaventura von Harrach
Czech nobleman (1708-1778)
Sultan Muhammad Jiwa Zainal Adilin II
Sultan of Kedah
Giovanni Andrea Fioroni
Italian composer
Hermann Raupach
German composer (1728-1778)
Gopikabai
Gopikabai (20 December 1724 – 11 August 1778) was Peshwin of Maratha Empire, as the wife of
Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao (also called Nanasaheb Peshwa). She had a very orthodox religious upbringing and belief. After the death of Nanasaheb Peshwa, she tried to expand her power over the Peshwa and the administration. She influenced her son Madhavrao Peshwa, who by sidelining Raghunathrao at her urging, assumed control. However, after trying to interfere in administrative matters, namely to save her brother from punishment, she was confined to Nashik. In 1773 she was freed after the death of Madhavara
Konstanty Ludwik Plater
Polish-Lithuanian noble (1722-1778)
Pierre Hubert L'Archevêque
Swedish sculptor (1721–1778)
Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
British duke (1714-1778)
Laurent Delvaux
Flemish sculptor (1696-1778)
Gottlieb Siegmund Gruner
Cartographer and geologist
Lydia Taft
American suffragist (1712-1778)
Mamia IV Gurieli
Alvare XI du Kongo
of the Kingdom of Kongo from 1764 to 1779.
Francesco Corselli
Italian composer
Garib Das
Saint
Carl Günther Ludovici
German writer
Charles Clémencet
French historian
Pierre Laclède
French-American city founder (1729-1778)
Heinrich von Manteuffel
German military personnel (1696-1778)
Hamir Singh II of Mewar
Maharana of Mewar
Jean Girardet
French painter (1709–1778)
James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
Scottish Earl (1726-1778)
Anton Maria Zanetti
(Venetian artist, 1706–1778)
Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville
Governor of New France
John Hesselius
American artist (1728-1778)
Jean Henri Desmercières
George Knapton
English painter (1698-1778)
William Anderson
naturalist and surgeon from Scotland (1750-1778)
Edward Rowe Mores
British scholar and actuary
Nicholas Biddle
Royal Navy officer
Lord William Campbell
British colonial official (d. 1778)
František Jiránek
Czech composer
François Joullain
French engraver and art dealer (1697–1778)
Giovanni Battista Costanzi
Italian composer (1704–1778)
Bellecour
French actor
Petros Peloponnesios
Greek cantor, Teacher at the Patriarchal Music School
Sun Zhu
Chinese poet
Maurice Suckling
British Naval officer (1726-1778)
Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald
British nobleman, politician and army officer (1691-1778)