Famous Deaths in 1780

Feb 14 William Blackstone, English jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries), dies at 56

Feb 17 Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706)
Feb 18 Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)
Mar 20 Sir Benjamin Truman - English brewer (b. 1699/1700)
Mar 26 Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, dies at 66
Apr 21 Ferdinand Zellbell the younger, Swedish composer, co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, dies at 60
May 18 Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland
Jun 3 Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
Jul 4 Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Neth, dies at 67
Jul 14 Charles Batteux, French philosopher, dies at 67
Aug 3 Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64
Aug 19 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32
Aug 29 Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
Sep 1 Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1777-1800), dies at 69
Sep 4 John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721)

Sep 6 William Allen, Mayor of Philadelphia, dies at 76

Sep 8 Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
Oct 2 John Andre, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) at 30
Oct 7 Patrick Ferguson, Scottish army officer and rifle inventor (Ferguson flintlock rifle), dies in battle at 36
Oct 17 William Cookworthy, English chemist, dies at 75
Nov 14 Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator, dies at 81
Nov 17 Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
Nov 26 James [Denham] Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b. 1712)
Nov 29 Maria Theresa Hapsburg, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Croatia (1740-1780), dies following illness at 63
Dec 26 John Fothergill, English physician, dies at 68