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Alla källor som gick bort år 1778

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1773: André Fery (1714-1773)
March 24th 1773: Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
August 22nd 1773: Lord Lyttelton (1709-1773)
April 4th 1774: Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) - Irish writer
August 25th 1776: David Hume (1711-1776) - Scottish philosopher
September 22nd 1776: Nathan Hale (1755-1776) - and Revolutionary officer who attempted to spy on the British and was hanged.
October 21st 1777: Samuel Foote (1720-1777) - English actor, writer

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1778

Carl von Linné (1707-1778)
January 10th: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) - English botanist/zoo
January 10th: Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)
May 30th: François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) - One of the greatest of all French authors.
July 2nd: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - French writer
November 5th: William Pitt the elder (1708-1778) - 1st Earl of Chatham, Viscount Pitt of Burton-Pynsent , byname The Great Commoner.

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January 20th 1779: David Garrick (1717-1779) - English actor, writer
June 7th 1779: William Warburton (1698-1779) - English bishop, lit crit
1780: Marie du Deffand (1697-1780)
February 14th 1780: William Blackstone (1723-1780) - English jurist
February 15th 1781: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) - on philosophy and aesthetics.
April 12th 1782: Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)
September 18th 1783: Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) - Swiss mathematician
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