Deaths Date 1771 | History by KabAstro

Feb 20 Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist, dies at 92
Mar 1 Isfrid Kayser, German composer, dies at 58
Mar 8 Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
Mar 22 Gottlieb Rabener, German author (Vom Misbrauch of the Satire), dies at 56
Mar 24 William Shirley, British Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (played an important role in Britain’s struggle against France for control of North America), dies at 76
May 21 Christopher Smart, English poet and journalist (Ceremony of Carols), dies at 49
Jun 8 George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman, dies at 54
Jun 23 Jean-Claude Trial, French composer, dies at 38
Jul 30 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard), dies at 54
Sep 17 Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist, surgeon and critic (The Adventures of Roderick Random), dies at 50
Oct 14 František "Franz" Xaver Brixi, Czech classical composer and kapellmeister, dies at 39
Oct 18 Robert Praelisauer, German composer, music director, and priest, dies at 62
Oct 27 Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer, dies at about 67 (exact birthday uncertain, c. 1703)
Nov 6 Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch jurist, dies at 69
Nov 6 John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (discovered Crab Nebula), dies at 75
Nov 13 Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor and theatre director (Die Oberpfalz), dies at 61
Nov 18 Giuseppe de Majo, Italian composer and organist, dies at 73
Dec 6 Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
Dec 23 Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (founded the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal), dies at 70,
Dec 26 Claude Adrien Helvétius, French controversial philosopher (On the Mind), dies at 56
Dec 27 Henri Pitot, Italian-French engineer, dies at 76

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