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Christoph Willibald von Gluck
opera composer (1714–1787)
Leopold Mozart
German composer (1719–1787)
Ruđer Josip Bošković
Croat physicist (1711–1787)
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Italian Catholic bishop and saint (1696-1787)
Carl Friedrich Abel
German composer
Pompeo Batoni
Italian painter (1708-1787)
Ferdinando Galiani
Italian economist
William Watson
English physician and scientist (1715–1787)
Thomas Gage
British general (1721-1787)
Caroline of Orange-Nassau
Princess in the house of Orange-Nassau
Johann Karl August Musäus
German writer (1735-1787)
Anna Amalia of Prussia
German princess-abbess and composer
Princess Louise Marie of France
French Princess, Discalced Carmelite nun and Venerable (1737–1787)
Şahin Giray
Crimean Khan
Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel
German princess (1722-1787)
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
French diplomat (1719-1787)
Charles, Prince of Soubise
Marshal of France (1715-1787)
Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe
Count of Lippe-Alverdissen and Count of Schaumburg-Lippe
Abol Fath Khan
The nominal ruler of Zandi dynasty (1779)
Elimelech of Lizhensk
Polish rabbi
François Francoeur
French composer and violinist
Francisco Javier Clavijero
mesoamericanist, 1731-1787
Felix of Nicosia
Catholic Saint (1715-1787)
Robert Lowth
Bishop of St David's; Bishop of Oxford; Bishop of London (1710-1787)
Duchess Auguste Elisabeth of Württemberg
German noble
Pasquale Cafaro
Italian composer (1716-1787)
Thomas Stone
American planter and lawyer who signed the United States Declaration of Independence (1743-1787)
Arthur Middleton
American politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1787)
Anton Schweitzer
German composer (1735-1787)
Marc Antoine René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson
French noble (1722-1787)
Johan Daniel Berlin
Norwegian composer and organist (1714-1787)
Maria Pellegrina Amoretti
Italian lawyer (1756-1787)
Jean Armand de Lestocq
French adventurer
Ignazio Fiorillo
Italian composer
Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen
German prince
Maria Magdalena van Beethoven
mother of Ludwig van Beethoven (1746–1787)
Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
British nobleman and Pittite politician (1754-1787)
Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta
Spanish writer (1734-1787)
Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
Marshal of France
Carl Gustav Jablonsky
German entomologist (1756–1787)
José de Gálvez
Spanish lawyer (1720-1787)
La Caramba
Flamenco singer and dancer
Francesco Zugno
18th-century painter (1708-1787)
Josef Starzer
German composer
Maximilien Gardel
French ballet dancer and choreographer (1741-1787)
Sven Lagerbring
Swedish historian (1707-1787)
Isaac de Pinto
Jewish writer, inhabitant of De Pinto House in Amsterdam
Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten
mathematician (1732-1787)
King Andrianjafy
King Andrianjafy (before -1787) also known as Andrianjafinandriamanitra and Andrianjafinjanahary, was the king of Imerina Avaradrano, the northern part of the central highlands of Madagascar with its capital at Ambohimanga. His father Andriambelomasina bequeathed him the rule of Avaradrano while designating his nephew Ramboasalama to follow Andrianjafy in the order of succession. Andrianjafy did not accept this decree, instead preferring that his own son succeed him, and sought retribution against citizens of Avaradrano who acknowledged the latent authority of his nephew.
José Anastácio da Cunha
Portuguese mathematician
Henry Muhlenberg
Lutheran clergyman and missionary
Andrea Giganti
Italian architect
Abrame Ier de Jérusalem
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1775–1787
Charles de Fitz-James, 4th Duke of Fitz-James
Marshal of France
Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer
German economist
Michał Jan Pac
Polish noble (1730-1787)
Arthur Devis
English painter (1712-1787)
William Draper
British Army general
Ignác Raab
Czech painter (1715-1787)
Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand
Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher (1713-1787)