Alla källor som gick bort år 1780

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October 21st 1777: Samuel Foote (1720-1777) - English actor, writer
1778: Carl von Linné (1707-1778)
January 10th 1778: Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)
January 10th 1778: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) - English botanist/zoo
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

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1780

Marie du Deffand (1697-1780)
February 14th: William Blackstone (1723-1780) - English jurist

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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
July 31st 1784: Denis Diderot (1713-1784) - French philosopher
December 13th 1784: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) - English writer
1786: Fredrik den store (1712-1786)
August 2nd 1788: Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) - English artist
1789: Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (1741-1789)
January 21st 1789: Paul Heinrich Dietrich von Holbach (1723-1789) - German philosopher
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