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1781 deaths

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic (1729-1781)

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

French economist and statesman (1727–1781)

Túpac Amaru II

leader of a large Andean uprising against the Spanish in Peru (1738-1781)

Abram Petrovich Gannibal

African-born Russian general and military engineer (c.1696–1781)

Mariana Victoria of Spain

Infanta of Spain by birth, later regent of Portugal

Josef Mysliveček

Franz Joseph I of Liechtenstein

8th Prince of Liechtenstein 1772–1781 (1726–1781)

indigenous Aymara leader of a major insurrection in colonial-era Upper Peru

Faustina Bordoni

opera singer (1697-1781)

Danish dramatist and poet (1743–1781)

Sadiq Khan Zand

The third Khan of Zand dynasty (1779–1781)

Johann Anton Güldenstädt

Baltic German scientist (1745-1781)

Tobias Furneaux

Royal Navy officer and explorer (1735-1781)

Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas

French politician (1701-1781)

English biologist and Roman Catholic priest (1713-1781)

Johann August Ernesti

German theologian

Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Italian physicist

Micaela Bastidas

martyr of Peruvian independence

Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke

Royal Navy admiral (1705-1781)

Johann Nikolaus Götz

German poet (1721–1781)

Richard Stockton

American lawyer, jurist and legislator (1730–1781)

thumb|Balilla monument at Portoria Square in Genoa, Italy

Christophe de Beaumont

Catholic archbishop

José Francisco de Isla

Spanish writer (1703-1781)

James Abercrombie

British Army general (1706-1781)

Friedrich von Wurmb

German botanist (1742-1781)

Ignatius of Laconi

Sardinian saint

Jakob Emanuel Handmann

Swiss painter specialised in portrait painting (1718–1781)

Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marqués de la Ensenada

Spanish noble (1702-1781)

English chemist and physician

Tomasa Tito Condemayta

Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Bevern

Duke of Brunswick-Bevern

Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye

French academic (1697-1781)

Anna Maria Schwegelin

Alleged German witch

Bernard-Joseph Saurin

Princess Eleonora of Savoy

member of the House of Savoy (1728-1781)

Théodore Tronchin

Genevan physician

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

French painter (1734-1781)

Guillaume Le Blond

French mathematician and military historian

representative of Pennsylvania who signed the Declaration of Independence (1716-1781)

Scottish adventurer and diplomat

Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer

British politician (1708-1781)

Jan Mikołaj Chodkiewicz

Polish noble (1738–1781)

Francisco Salzillo

Azad Khan Afghan

Ruler of Asia in 18th century

king of Vientiane

Gregorio Mayans

Historian, linguist and writer

Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington

Irish politician and aristocrat

Giovanni Ottavio Manciforte Sperelli

Italian cardinal

Johan Henrik Scheffel

Swedish artist (1690-1781)

Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda

Iranian poet and literary

Richard Challoner

Roman Catholic bishop (1691-1781)

French painter (1745-1781)

Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1729-1781)

Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan

French painter and printmaker (1711-1781)

German astronomer and mathematician

Fernando Rivera y Moncada

Spanish explorer