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1779 deaths

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British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)

Anton Raphael Mengs

German-Bohemian painter active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid (1728-1779)

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

painter from France (1699-1779)

British actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer (1717–1779)

Karim Khan zand

founder of the Zand Dynasty (1751–1779)

emperor of Japan (1758-1779)

Thomas Chippendale

British cabinet-maker (1718–1779)

Casimir Pulaski

Polish nobleman, general in the American Revolutionary War

English composer and organist (1711-1779)

Tommaso Traetta

Italian composer (1727–1779)

Louis de Jaucourt

French philosopher (1704-1779)

Swedish scientist and priest (1716-1779)

Johann Georg Sulzer

German philosopher (1720 - 1779)

Mohammad Ali Khan

The nominal ruler of Zandi dynasty (1779)

Claude Bourgelat

French veterinary surgeon (1712–1779)

Adriaan van Royen

Dutch botanist and university teacher (1704-1779)

Alessandro Albani

Roman Catholic cardinal and antiquarian (1692–1779)

Japanese pharmacologist and writer (1728-1780)

British painter (1701-1779)

Henry XXIV, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf

Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf (1724-1779)

Cosmas of Aetolia

saint in the Greek Orthodox Church

István Küzmics

Hungarian translator

Italian composer (1715-1779)

Hilaire Rouelle

English surveyor and astronomer (1733–1779)

signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (1730-1779)

Joseph de Jussieu

French botanist (1704-1779)

Heinrich Leopold Wagner

German dramatist (1747-1779)

signer of the United States Declaration of Independence from South Carolina (1749-1779)

Hungarian writer

British Royal Navy officer

William Warburton

Bishop of Gloucester (1698-1779)

American Founding Father and politician from Hopewell, New Jersey

mathematician, physicist and astronomer and acting president of Harvard University in 1769 and 1773

Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence 1730-1779

Wacław Rzewuski

Polish writer and noble

Heinrich Gottfried von Mattuschka

German botanist (1734-1779)

André le Breton

French publisher (1708–1779)

Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa

Spanish general (1717-1779)

Martha Daniell Logan

American botanist and writer (1704-1779)

Louis Constantin of Rohan

Catholic cardinal

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple

First Lord of the Admiralty (1711-1779)

Diego José Abad y García

Jesuit poet and translator (1727-1779)

Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert

French journalist

Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet

British colonial administrator (1712-1779)

king of Cambodia

Jakob Jonas Björnståhl

Swedish orientalist (1731-1779)

Johann Joseph Gassner

Austrian priest

Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol

British vice admiral and politician (1724-1779)

Dom Bédos de Celles

French organ builder (1709-1779)

Murk van Phelsum

Dutch physician and zoologist (1732–1779)

Johann Lucas Kracker

Austrian painter

Irish physicist (1725-1779)

Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling

John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland

English nobleman (1696-1779)

Welsh philanthropist (1698-1779)

John Hamilton Mortimer

British artist (1740-1779)

poet, librettist and writer