1780 deaths

ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)

French academic

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

Italian artist (1722–1780)

French author (1711–1776)

Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor (1714–1780)

Austrian general (1712-1780)

German composer, opera singer and librettist (1724-1780)

French architect (1713–1780)

Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1713-1780)

British inventor

Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1737 to 1780

French salon-holder

Scottish economist

Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen 1745-1780

Prussian princess

German composer and musician

Prince of Savoy (1743-1780)

Dutch botanist

British Army officer during the American Revolutionary War

German royal (1700-1780)

Spanish painter (1716-1780)

last civilian Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, historian (1711-1780)

German duchess (1732-1780)

Italian composer, organist and music theorist (1697–1780)

Spanish writer

French philosopher

French writer

Ottoman scientist

French painter (1701-1780)

Duchess of Courland (1743-1780)

Japanese painter (1682-1752)

Spanish mathematician and teacher

Panchen Lama

Italian chess player

British artist (1692-1780)

Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld at Gelnhausen

French composer and conductor

Ruler of Moldavia

English physician and plant collector (1712–1780)

Dutch engraver (1698-1780)

Ecumenical Patriarch in 1774–1780

Polish noble

Polish writer

Italian cardinal (1703-1780)

French academic

British composer, writer and grocer

Spanish archaeologist (1702-1780)

Swedish philologist (1707-1780)

Rai'iatean explorer

American general (1721-1780)

French economist

German noblewoman

French missionary (1727-1780)

German scientist (1740-1780)

chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim, politician (1733-1780)

German historian and librarian

18th century leader of Hà Tiên in modern-day Vietnam and Cambodia

American explorer (1710-1780)

Norwegian historian