Alla källor som gick bort år 1771

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February 11th 1763: William Shenstone (1714-1763) - Scottish poet
September 23rd 1763: John Byrom (1692-1763) - hymnist, and inventor of a system of shorthand.
1764: Charles Churchill (1731-1764)
October 26th 1764: William Hogarth (1697-1764) - English artist
April 5th 1765: Edward Young (1683-1765) - English writer
March 18th 1768: Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) - Irish-Englis writer
August 24th 1770: Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) - of the 18th century Gothic literary revival and precursor of the Romantic Movement.
November 13th 1770: George Grenville (1712-1770) - whose policy of taxing the American colonies started the train of events leading to the American Revolution.

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1771

May 21st: Christopher Smart (1722-1771) - English religious writer
July 7th: Thomas Gray (1716-1771) - English writer
December 26th: Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) - French philosopher

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1773: Earl Of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
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
January 10th 1778: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) - English botanist/zoo
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