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1786 deaths

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Frederick II of Prussia

King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen

Pedro III of Portugal

king of Portugal

Moses Mendelssohn

German-Jewish philosopher and theologian (1729–1786)

Swedish scientist (1724-1786)

Dutch astronomer (1764-1786)

Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier

French explorer

Bohemian violinist and composer

Nathanael Greene

American general in the American Revolutionary War (1742-1786)

Tokugawa Ieharu

Japanese shogun

Maurice Benyovszky

Hungarian traveller and writer

Antonio Sacchini

Italian composer (1730–1786)

Gaspar de Portolà

explorer and soldier in New Spain

Princess Amelia of Great Britain

Princess of Great Britain (1711-1786)

astronomer (1711-1786)

French horticulturalist (1719–1786)

Bernardo de Gálvez

Spanish colonial administrator (1746-1786)

British Royal Navy officer and politician; (1723-1786)

Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch

German botanist (1714–1786)

Jean-Étienne Guettard

French scientist (1715-1786)

Ernestine Augusta of Saxe-Weimar

Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen

Hans Joachim von Zieten

Prussian general (1699-1786)

Gustaf Lundberg

Swedish rococo painter (1695-1786)

English composer and organist

Italian literary critic (1713-1786)

Giovanni Battista Guadagnini

Italian luthier

English astronomer and surveyor

John Francis Wade

English hymnist

Johann Kaspar Füssli

Swiss entomologist (1743-1786)

William Duesbury

British entrepreneur, founder of the Royal Crown Derby factory (1725-1786)

Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham

British politician and statesman (1738-1786)

Fernando de Sousa e Silva

Portuguese cardinal (1712-1786)

Johann Ludwig Aberli

Swiss painter and etcher (1723-1786)

Selim III Giray

Alexander Wilson

Scottish surgeon, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist (1714-1786)

Changkya Rölpé Dorjé

Important Buddhist teacher in the Qing court.

Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel

Royal Navy admiral (1725-1786)

English traveler and philanthropist

Nathaniel Gottfried Leske

German natural scientist and geologist (1751-1786)

István Hatvani

Hungarian mathematician (1718–1786)

Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland

English peer, landowner, and art patron; (1715-1786)

Carlos Francisco de Croix, marqués de Croix

Spanish general

George Hepplewhite

British furniture designer

Leonardo Ximenes

Italian mathematician

Royal Consort Uibin Seong

King Jeongjo's consort of Joseon (1753-1786)

Carlo Marchionni

Italian architect (1702-1786)

Japanese artist

Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon

French noblewoman

Hieronim Wincenty Radziwiłł

Polish-Lithuanian nobleman (1759-1786)

Jacobus Bellamy

British physician and botanist (1725-1786)

French clarinetist

Ignatius of Mariupol

Greek bishop (1716–1786)

Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon

British diplomat (1709-1786)

scholar of Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages in 18th century India

Claude-Henri Watelet

French writer (1718-1786)

British composer

Continental Army general from North Carolina

Christoph Christian Sturm

Henri-Jacques de Croes

Flemish composer, Kapellmeister and violinist