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Baron d'Holbach
German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)
Abdul Hamid I
27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1774–1789)
Joseph Vernet
French painter and engraver from Avignon (1714-1789)
John Cleland
British writer (1709-1789)
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria
(1738-1789)
Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France
Prince of France (1781-1789)
Jean-Étienne Liotard
Genevan painter (1702–1789)
Ethan Allen
American general, writer and philosopher (1738–1789)
Charles-Michel de l'Épée
French priest and educator of the deaf
Petrus Camper
Dutch scientist (1722-1789)
Jafar Khan
The fifth Khan of Zand dynasty (1785–1789)
Franz Xaver Richter
Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician
Paolo Renier
119th, and penultimate, Doge of Venice
Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti
Italian-born English literary critic and author
Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay
Commander of the Bastille
Sayed Murad Khan
The sixth Khan of Zand dynasty (1789)
Anders Dahl
Swedish botanist (1751-1789)
Frances Brooke
English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator (1724-1789)
Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
French physiocrat economist (1715–1789)
Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
French general (1715–1789)
Paul Egede
Dano-Norwegian theologian
Jakob II Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1759-1789)
Thomas Nelson
4th Governor of Virginia 1738-1789
Jack Broughton
British boxer
Mary Ball Washington
mother of George Washington
Pyotr Panin
Russian general
Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
German noble
Giuseppe Bonito
Italian painter (1707-1789)
Jacques de Flesselles
French politician (1730-1789)
Thomas Walter
American botanist (c. 1740 - 1789)
Johann Heinrich Tischbein
painter from Germany (1722-1789)
Thomas Day
Thomas Day, English author and political campaigner (1748-1789)
Julie von Voss
morganatic wife of Frederick William II of Prussia
Tommaso Temanza
architect
Christian Albert, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg from 1765 to 1789
Cláudio Manuel da Costa
Brazilian poet and musician
John Hawkins
English author and music historian (1719-1789)
Rachel Wall
American pirate; last woman hanged in the state of Massachusetts
Armand-Louis Couperin
French composer, organist, and harpsichordist
Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany
only child of Bonnie Prince Charlie
József Károly Hell
Hungarian mining engineer (1713-1789)
Badshah Begum
Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
Silas Deane
American politician (1737-1789)
Jacques Duphly
French composer (1715-1789)
Johann Wilhelm Hertel
German organist and composer (1727-1789)
Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre
French painter, draughtsman and administrator (1714-1789)
Domenico Caracciolo
Italian politician
Semyon Desnitsky
Russian philosopher
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem
German theologian (1709-1789)
Richard Caswell
1st and 5th governor of North Carolina 1729-1789
Friederike Sophie Seyler
German actress
Jerónimo Grimaldi, 1st Duke of Grimaldi
Italian-Spanish diplomat and politician (1710-1789)
Anders Johan von Höpken
Swedish politician (1712-1789)
John Ledyard
American explorer and adventurer (1751-1789)
Paul Erdmann Isert
German botanist (1756-1789)
Étienne Jeaurat
painter (1699-1789)
Fath-Ali Khan of Quba
Khan of Quba (1758-1789)
Francisco Palóu
Spanish missionary
Joseph Foullon de Doué
18th-century French politician
Francina Margaretha van Huysum
18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands (1707–1789)