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1785 deaths

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Carlo Bonaparte

Father of Napoleon Bonaparte

Baldassare Galuppi

Italian composer (1706-1785)

Gabriel Bonnot de Mably

French philosopher, historian, and writer (1709–1785)

Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier

French balloonist

Italian painter (1701-1785)

María Antonia of Spain

Spanish infanta (1729-1785)

Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

French royal (1725–1785)

Étienne François, duc de Choiseul

French general, diplomat and statesman (1719–1785)

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

French sculptor (1714-1785)

James Oglethorpe

British Army general, founder of the Georgia colony (1696-1785)

Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg

German prince-bishop and duke of Oldenburg (1711-1785)

Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón

Spanish cardinal (1727-1785)

Friedrich II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) from 1760 to 1785

The forth Khan of Zand dynasty (1781–1785)

Johan Herman Wessel

Norwegian-Danish writer

Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Stephen Hopkins

Signer of Declaration of Independence (1707-1785)

Duchess Frederica of Württemberg

German noble (1765-1785)

Ventura Rodríguez

Spanish architect

Élisabeth Thible

Ballooning pioneer

Johann Gerhard König

German botanist and physician (1728-1785)

Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt

George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville

British Army general (1716-1785)

British surgeon

János Sajnovics

Hungarian linguist, anthropologist, astronomer and mathematician

Johan Gottschalk Wallerius

Swedish chemist and mineralogist

British actress (1711-1785)

William Whipple

American politician and Founding Father (1730-1785)

Gottfried August Homilius

German composer, cantor and organist

American businessman

Johann Jakob Moser

German jurist, publicist and researcher (1701-1785)

Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi

Ukrainian architect

Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Italian painter and engraver in England (1727-1785)

Prince Karl Friedrich I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Jean Paul de Gua de Malves

French mathematician

Halil Hamid Paşa

Ottoman Grand Vizier

Khwaja Mir Dard

Zaharije Orfelin

Serbian writer and historian

Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer

Dutch classical scholar (1715–1785)

Johann Heinrich Rolle

German baroque composer *1785

Faustina Pignatelli

Italian mathematics and physics

Pennsylvania lawyer, military aide and statesman (1741–1785)

English poet and politician (1712-1785)

Joseph Tiefenthaler

Austrian missionary

Gustaf Philip Creutz

Swedish statesman, diplomat and poet (1731-1785)

Semen Klymovskyi

Ukrainian poet (1705-1785)

Gabriel IV of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1780–1785

César Gabriel de Choiseul

French politician (1712-1785)

Antoine Léonard Thomas

French poet (1732-1785)

Leopoldo de Gregorio

Italian statesman (1699-1785)

William Whitehead

British Poet Laureate and playwright (1715–1785)

Anton Rolandsson Martin

Swedish botanist (1729–1785)

Matthew Stewart

Scottish mathematician (1717-1785)

Ferenc Esterházy

Hungarian politician (1715-1785)

Italian playwright (1712-1785)

Torii Kiyomitsu

painter and woodblock printer (1735-1785)

Stanislaus Czerniewicz

Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus (1728–1785)

Vasile Ursu Nicola

Romanian revolutionary (1731-1785)

Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais

Polish architect