1783 deaths

German philosopher and political economist

Italian painter (1713-1783)

Spanish travel writer and civil servant (1715-1783)

Italian astronomer, mathematician and hydraulic engineer (1704–1783)

Italian poet and economist (1736-1783)

King of Krishnanagar, Nadia, West Bengal

French sculptor (1729–1783)

Swiss sculptor

French engraver (1715-1789)

lawyer in colonial Pennsylvania

German precision mechanic and mathematician

Ahaya (c. 1710 – 1783) was the first recorded chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe. European-Americans called him Cowkeeper, as he held a very large herd of cattle. Ahaya was the chief of a town of Oconee people near the Chattahoochee River. Around 1750 he led his people into Florida where they settled around Payne's Prairie, part of what the Spanish called tierras de la chua, "Alachua Country" in English. The Spanish called Ahaya's people cimarones, which eventually became "Seminoles" in English. Ahaya fought the Spanish, and sought friendship with the British, allying with them af

French musician