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1783 deaths

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Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)

poet and painter from Japan (1716–1784)

Johann Adolph Hasse

German composer, singer and teacher (1699-1783)

Étienne Bézout

French mathematician (1730-1783)

Johann Jakob Bodmer

Swiss-German author, academic, critic and poet (1698–1783)

Russian noble (1734-1783)

Carl Linnaeus the Younger

Swedish botanist (1741–1783)

British landscape architect (1716–1783)

Catalan & Spanish composer

Johann Kirnberger

German composer

Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt

German artist, naturalist, art collector and entomologist (1723-1783)

Russian statesman (1718–1783)

Gerhard Friedrich Müller

German historian and ethnologist

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

German sculptor (1736-1783)

Benedict Joseph Labre

French mendicant and saint

Christian Mayer

Czech-German astronomer

British anatomist and physician (1718-1783)

Louise d'Épinay

lawyer in colonial Massachusetts (1725-1783)

Prince Octavius of Great Britain

Tikhon of Zadonsk

Alexander Ablesimov

Opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist, journalist

10th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire (1734-1783)

Adam František Kollár

Slovak jurist, historian, ethnologist, and policy advisor

Italian opera singer

Ahmad bin Said Al Busaidi

Iman of Oman, first ruler from the Al Bu Said dynasty

Bartolomeo Altomonte

Austrian artist (1694–1783)

Ignaz Holzbauer

German composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music (1711-1783)

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau

French painter (1715-1783)

Anna Rosina de Gasc

German painter (1713-1783)

Lucrezia Aguiari

Italian soprano

Bernardo Tanucci

Italian noble (1698-1783)

Norwegian bishop

Constantine Mourousis

Prince of Moldavia

American merchant and public official (1721-1783)

Ahmed Resmi Efendi

Ottoman historian (1694–1783)

Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin

Swedish astronomer (1717-1783)

British Army general (1726-1783)

John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer

British peer and politician (1734-1783)

Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti

Italian naturalist (1712-1783)

Franz Leopold von Nádasdy

Austrian general (1708–1783)

Leopold Ernst of Firmian

Austrian cardinal (1708-1783)

Giuseppe Pozzobonelli

Archbishop of Milan

William Alexander

Continental Army general (1726-1783)

Lord Charles Cavendish

British politician (1704-1783)

Jassa Singh Ahluwalia

Prominent Sikh leader

Johann Andreas Silbermann

French organbuilder from Strasbourg

Swiss painter (1735-1783)

Ann Eliza Bleecker

American poet, correspondent (1752-1783)

Józef Sylwester Sosnowski

French writer (1709–1783)

António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches

Portuguese educationist, historian, physician and translator (1699-1783)

Juliane Reichardt

Pianist, singer and composer

Vieira Lusitano

Portuguese artist (1699-1783)

Sophie d'Artois

18th-century French princess

John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton

British politician

Heinrich Joseph Johann of Auersperg

Austrian nobleman (1697-1783)

Joseph Wenzel, Prince of Fürstenberg