Aug 4 Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor of New France, dies at 79 Aug 5 Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703) Aug 5 Thomas Linley the younger, English composer and musician "English Mozart", drowns in a boating accident at 22 Aug 11 Augustus Montague Toplady, British hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies at 37 Aug 12 Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714) Aug 28 Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer and naval chaplain (My Son on the Galley), dies at 32 Jul 1778 Famous Deaths by Year Sep 1778 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
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