List: 1787 deaths

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•  Carl Friedrich Abel

  Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the Classical era. (The Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives his year of birth as 1725. ) He was a fine player of the viola da gamba, and composed important music for that instrument.

  

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•  Robert Lowth

  Robert Lowth FRS (27 November 1710 – 3 November 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at Oxford University and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.

  

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•  Charles Edward Stuart

  Prince Charles Edward Stuart (31 December 1720 – 31 January 1788) was the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland. He is commonly known to the English and the Scottish as Bonnie Prince Charlie. In Scottish Gaelic, his name was Teàrlach Eideard Stiùbhairt, while the Irish form is Séarlas Éadbhard Stiúbhart.

  

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•  Leopold Mozart

  Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.

  

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•  Christoph Willibald Gluck

  Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years.

  

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•  Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes

  Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (20 December 1717 – 13 February 1787) was a French statesman and diplomat. He served as Foreign Minister from 1774 during the reign of Louis XVI, notably during the American War of Independence. Vergennes hoped that by giving French aid to the American rebels, he would be able to weaken Britain's dominance of the international stage in the wake of their victory in the Seven Years War.

  

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•  Roger Joseph Boscovich

  Ruđer Bošković (see names in other languages; 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, Jesuit, and according to some a polymath from Ragusa, who lived for a time in France, England and some Italian states .

  

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•  Arthur Middleton

  Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 – January 1, 1787), of Charleston, South Carolina, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. His parents were Henry Middleton and Mary Baker Williams. He was educated in Britain, at Harrow School, Westminster School, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He studied law at the Middle Temple and traveled extensively in Europe where his taste in literature, music, and art was developed and refined.

  

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•  Ferdinando Galiani

  Ferdinando Galiani (2 December 1728 – 30 October 1787) was an Italian economist. Friedrich Nietzsche called him the "most fastidious and refined intelligence" of the Eighteenth Century.

  

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•  Thomas Gage

  Thomas Gage (1719 or 1720 – April 2, 1787) was a British general, best known for his role in the early days of the American War of Independence. Born to an aristocratic family in England, he entered military service, seeing action in the French and Indian War, where he served alongside a future opponent, George Washington. After the fall of Montreal in 1760, he was named its military governor.

  

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•  Pompeo Batoni

  Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter whose style incorporated elements of the French Rococo, Bolognese classicism, and nascent Neoclassicism.

  

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•  Henry Muhlenberg

  Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (an anglicanization of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg) (September 6, 1711 – October 7, 1787), was a German Lutheran pastor sent to North America as a missionary. Muhlenberg was integral to the founding of the first Lutheran church body or denomination, in North America and is considered to be the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the United States. Muhlenberg's family had a significant impact on colonial life in North America.

  

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•  Thomas Stone

  Thomas Stone (1743 – October 5, 1787) was an American planter who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland. He later worked on the committee that formed the Articles of Confederation in 1777. He acted as President of Congress for a short time in 1784.

  

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•  Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise

  

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•  John Wentworth Jr.

  

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•  Charles DeWitt

  Charles DeWitt (1727-1787) was an American miller and statesman from Kingston, New York. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. Charles was the only son of Johannes and Mary Brodhead DeWitt. He was born on April 27, 1727. The DeWitt family lived in Kingston, and he was raised there, along with his three sisters. Johannes, and later Charles, operated the flour mill at Greenkill (in what is now Rosendale, New York).

  

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•  John Brown (theologian)

  John Brown of Haddington (1722 – 19 June 1787), was a Scottish divine and author. His works include “The Self-Interpreting Bible”, “The Dictionary of the Bible”, and “A General History of the Christian Church”.

  

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•  Mason Chamberlin

  Mason Chamberlin (1727–1787) was an English portrait painter and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. He was a student of Francis Hayman. He is perhaps best known for a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, commissioned by wealthy Virginian landowner and friend of Franklin's in London, Col. Philip Ludwell III, and painted from life in 1762. It shows Franklin seated in his study with lightning striking outside the window in the background, and a lightning rod on his house.

  

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•  Mary Anne Yates

  Mary Anne Yates (1728–1787) was an English tragic actress. The daughter of William Graham, a ship's steward and his wife, Mary, she married Richard Yates (c. 1706-1796), a well-known comedian of the time. In 1753, aged 25, she appeared at Drury Lane as Marcia in Samuel Crisp's Virginia. David Garrick played the part of Virginius. Yates was gradually entrusted with all the leading parts and succeeded the then famous actress Mrs Cibber as the leading tragedienne of the English stage.

  

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•  Samuel Graves

  Admiral Samuel Graves RN (17 April 1713 – 8 March 1787) was a British Admiral who is probably best known for his role early in the American War of Independence.

  

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•  Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

  Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (9 November 1723 – 30 March 1787) was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg and a Prussian princess, one of ten surviving children of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover.

  

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•  Teresa Karolina Rzewuska

  Teresa Karolina Rzewuska (1749–1787) was a Polish szlachcianka. She married Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł aka "Panie Kochanku" on April 8, 1764.

  

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•  Alphonsus Liguori

  

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•  Anton Schweitzer

  Anton Schweitzer (6 June 1735 – 23 November 1787) was a successful composer of operas. He was a child prodigy who obtained the patronage of a nobleman, enabling him to tour Europe. His most notable work is Alceste (1773), with a libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland.

  

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•  Soame Jenyns

  Soame Jenyns was an English writer.

  

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