Aug 1 Alfonsus Liguori, Italian bishop, theologian, poet, composer, lawyer, and Catholic saint, dies at 90 Aug 13 Isaac de Pinto, Dutch merchant (Dutch East India Company), and scholar, dies at 70 Jul 1787 Famous Deaths by Year Oct 1787 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide