WHO ALL DIED IN 1779.
See all who died in 1779.

French surgeon Claude Bourgelat died 3. January 1779. (born 1712)

English actor David Garrick died 20. January 1779. (born 1717)

English surveyor and astronomer Jeremiah Dixon died 22. January 1779. (born 1733)

American guerrilla leader Claudius Smith died 22. January 1779. (born 1736)

English composer William Boyce died 7. February 1779. (born 1711)

English captain and explorer James Cook died 14. February 1779. (born 1728)

German editor Paul Daniel Longolius died 24. February 1779. (born 1704)

American minister and academic, founded Dartmouth College Eleazar Wheelock died 24. April 1779. (born 1711)

American mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop died 3. May 1779. (born 1714)

American politician John Hart died 11. May 1779. (born 1711)

English bishop William Warburton died 7. June 1779. (born 1698)

1st Baronet, English politician Sir Francis Bernard died 16. June 1779. (born 1712)

Ethiopian warlord Mikael Sehul died 23. June 1779. (born 1691)

German painter Anton Raphael Mengs died 29. June 1779. (born 1728)

Greek monk and saint Cosmas of Aetolia died 24. August 1779. (born 1714)

2nd Earl Temple, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire Richard Grenville-Temple died 12. September 1779. (born 1711)

Polish general Casimir Pulaski died 11. October 1779. (born 1745)

Finnish botanist and explorer Pehr Kalm died 16. November 1779. (born 1716)

French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin died 6. December 1779. (born 1699)

English physician Nathan Alcock died 8. December 1779. (born 1707)