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1788 deaths

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

French natural historian (1707-1788)

Charles III of Spain

King of Spain from 1759 to 1788

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

German composer (1714–1788)

Thomas Gainsborough

English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)

Charles Edward Stuart

Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France; (1720-1788)

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

Tyrolean physician and naturalist (1723-1788)

Johann Georg Hamann

German philosopher (1730-1788)

Maurice Quentin de La Tour

French Rococo portraitist (1704–1788)

Salomon Gessner

Swiss painter, etcher and poet (1730-1788)

English Methodist and hymn writer (1707-1788)

Nicole-Reine Lepaute

French astronomer (1723-1788)

Princess Auguste Karoline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

German noble (1764-1788)

Infante Gabriel of Spain

Spanish infante (1752–1788)

Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez

French admiral of the 18th century

Francesco Zuccarelli

Italian painter (1702-1788)

François Joseph Paul de Grasse

French admiral (1722-1788)

Toriyama Sekien

Japanese artist (1712–1788)

English Bluestocking, artist, and letter-writer (1700-1788)

Benjamin Wilson

British painter and scientist (1721-1788)

Charles Christian of Nassau-Weilburg

Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1753-1788)

Infanta Mariana Vitória of Portugal

Portuguese Royal

Armand de Vignerot du Plessis

French diplomat (1696–1788)

Infante José, Prince of Brazil

Portuguese Royal (1761-1788)

Giovanni Domenico Maraldi

Italian astronomer

Juan Bautista de Anza

Basque explorer and governor (1736-1788)

British surgeon (1714-1788)

John Whitehurst

British clockmaker (1713-1788)

Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon

French noble and politician (1720-1788)

Johann Georg Palitzsch

German astronomer (1723-1788)

Tanuma Okitsugu

daimyo (1719-1788)

Anton I of Georgia

Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church

Scottish archaeologist, architect and artist (1713–1788)

Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg

German Duke, general, and advisor to the Stadhouder of the Netherlands (1718–1788)

Russian admiral of Scottish origin (1736-1788)

Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1709-1788)

Scottish physician (1735-1788)

Gaetano Filangieri

Austrian composer (1711–1788)

Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert

Flemish sculptor (1727–1788)

Danish writer and translator

Paul d'Albert, Cardinal de Luynes

Catholic cardinal

François Jacquier

French Franciscan mathematician and physicist

signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation

First Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, briefly acting governor (1725-1788)

Lucia Galeazzi Galvani

Italian Medical scientist

Ottoman princess, daughter of Ahmed III

Giovanni Carlo Boschi

Catholic cardinal

Priest, conchologist and botanist (1735-1788)

British entomologist

Giulio Variboba

Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull

English courtier

Francisco Javier Alegre

Jesuit scholar, translator, historian

Johann Ignaz von Felbiger

Augustinian friar

Gaetano Latilla

Italian opera composer

Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk

early leader of Hasidic Judaism

British cabinet-maker and thief (1741-1788)

Johann Gottfried Müthel

German composer

Manuel Guírior

Viceroy of New Grenada

German composer

Antonio Eugenio Visconti

Italian cardinal (1713-1788)