page_title: 1784
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1784 / Deaths
context_page_description: 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1784th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 784th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1784, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: February 4 – Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Prussian princess (b. 1714)
  February 27 – Count of St. Germain, French philosopher, adventurer (b. 1710)
  March 26 – Thomas Bond, American physician and surgeon (b. 1712)
  March 27 – Ralph Bigland, British officer of arms (b. 1712)
  March 31 – Thomas Adam, Clergyman, religious writer (b. 1701)
  April 26 – Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
  April 29 – Agustín de Jáuregui, Spanish colonial governor (b. 1711)
  May 3 – Anthony Benezet, French-born American abolitionist and educator (b. 1713)
  May 10 – Antoine Court de Gébelin, French pastor (b. 1725)
  May 12 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
  June 8 – Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani, Croatian poet (b. 1710)
  June 13 – Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
  June 14 – Andrzej Mokronowski, Polish general (b. 1713)
  June 26 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)
  July 1 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
  July 31 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher, encyclopedist (b. 1713)
  August 4 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
  August 10 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait-painter (b. 1713)
  August 14 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
  August 28 – Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. 1713)
  September 1 – Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (b. 1703)
  September 4 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
  September 8 – Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
  September 15 – Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French painter (b. 1735)
  November 1 – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, French polymath, author and poet (b. 1709)
  November 9 – George Baylor, officer in the American Continental Army (b. 1752)
  December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, first published African-American author (b. 1753)
  December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer, lexicographer (b. 1709)
  December 25 – Yosa Buson, Japanese poet, painter (b. 1716)
  December 26 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
  date unknown – Lê Quý Đôn, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. 1726)
  date unknown – Raja Haji Fisabilillah, Buginese monarch of riau lingga, warrior, emperor, and government official
caption: Denis Diderot
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