Jan 3 Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon, dies at 66 Jan 20 David Garrick, English actor, producer and writer (Aboan-Oroonoko), dies at 61 Jan 22 Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736) Jan 22 Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer, dies at 45 1778 Famous Deaths by Year 1780