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18th-century deaths from tuberculosis

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English poet (1688–1744)

Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)

Catherine I of Russia

The first Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727

Laurence Sterne

Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (1713–1768)

Jean-Antoine Watteau

French painter (1684-1721)

Madame de Pompadour

chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)

Louis XVII of France

heir of the French throne

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Italian composer, violinist and organist (1710–1736)

Tobias Smollett

18th-century poet and author from Scotland

Maria Amalia of Saxony

Queen consort of Spain (1724-1760)

Maria Luisa of Savoy

Queen consort of Spain (1688-1714)

Louis, Dauphin of France

French Dauphin (1729-1765)

Karim Khan zand

founder of the Zand Dynasty (1751–1779)

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

French writer (1755–1794)

Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France

Prince of France (1781-1789)

Benedetto Marcello

Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher (1686–1739)

French general (1768–1797)

Francesco Algarotti

Italian philosopher (1712-1764)

Landgravine Augusta Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt

Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, Duchess consort of Zweibrücken

British military diplomat and general of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence (1731-1782)

Félix Vicq-d'Azyr

French anatomist (1748-1794)

Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg

German musician

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai

French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat (1760-1797)

English botanist (1758-1796)

Ferdinand Brokoff

Czech sculptor (1688–1731)

American leader during the American Revolution (1726-1790)

Grand Duchess Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia

Russian grand duchess (1714-1728)

farmer, surveyor, and jurist from the Province of Pennsylvania (1725-1777)

Princess Tarakanoff

Pretender to the Russian throne

Alexander Garden

Physician, botanist and zoologist (1730-1791)

French politician (1759-1798)

Prince Louis, Duke of Burgundy

Prince of France

Lucrezia Aguiari

Italian soprano

American colonial farmer, smith and soldier

Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec

French Navy officer of the 18th century

British Royal Navy officer

Mistress of Peter the Great

Cardinal de Soubise

Catholic cardinal

Missionary in colonial North America

Maria Magdalena van Beethoven

mother of Ludwig van Beethoven (1746–1787)

Lawrence Washington

American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia; half-brother of George Washington

Welsh cleric, poet and painter

Diana Spencer, Duchess of Bedford

British noblewoman (1710-1735)

Christiane Luise Amalie Becker

Maria Crocifissa Satellico

Italian Roman Catholic nun

British artist (1694–1739)

Christian Heinrich Spiess

German actor, dramaturge and writer

Stanislas-Marie Maillard

French captain (1763-1794)

Sophie von Kühn

Elizabeth Ann Linley

English soprano (1754-1792)

William Houston

American politician (1746-1788)

French composer

Marie Jeanne Clemens

Danish artist (1755-1791)

Josiah Quincy II

American lawyer (1744–1775)

Lars Gathenhielm

Swedish privateer

Georg Friedrich Kauffmann

German composer and organist

Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Derby

English peeress (1753-1797)

Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

British nobleman