Alla källor som gick bort år 1777

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

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1777

October 21st: Samuel Foote (1720-1777) - English actor, writer

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January 10th 1778: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) - English botanist/zoo
January 10th 1778: Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)
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
February 14th 1780: William Blackstone (1723-1780) - English jurist
February 15th 1781: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) - on philosophy and aesthetics.
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