Alla källor som gick bort år 1776

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August 24th 1770: Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) - of the 18th century Gothic literary revival and precursor of the Romantic Movement.
November 13th 1770: George Grenville (1712-1770) - whose policy of taxing the American colonies started the train of events leading to the American Revolution.
May 21st 1771: Christopher Smart (1722-1771) - English religious writer
July 7th 1771: Thomas Gray (1716-1771) - English writer
December 26th 1771: Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) - French philosopher
1773: Earl Of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
March 24th 1773: Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
August 22nd 1773: Lord Lyttelton (1709-1773)
April 4th 1774: Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) - Irish writer

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1776

August 25th: David Hume (1711-1776) - Scottish philosopher
September 22nd: Nathan Hale (1755-1776) - and Revolutionary officer who attempted to spy on the British and was hanged.

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October 21st 1777: Samuel Foote (1720-1777) - English actor, writer
January 10th 1778: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) - English botanist/zoo
January 10th 1778: Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)
May 30th 1778: François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) - One of the greatest of all French authors.
July 2nd 1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - French writer
November 5th 1778: William Pitt the elder (1708-1778) - 1st Earl of Chatham, Viscount Pitt of Burton-Pynsent , byname The Great Commoner.
January 20th 1779: David Garrick (1717-1779) - English actor, writer
June 7th 1779: William Warburton (1698-1779) - English bishop, lit crit
February 14th 1780: William Blackstone (1723-1780) - English jurist
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