page_title: 1782
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1782 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Colonel William Crawford (1732 - 1782), who was an American soldier, and fought Indians in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
context_page_description: 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1782nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 782nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1782, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 2 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
  January 4 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
  January 18 – John Pringle, Scottish physician (b. 1707)
  January 30 – Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky, Russian general (b. 1722)
  February 9 – Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)
  February 10 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
  March 1 – John A. Treutlen, Governor of Georgia (b. 1734)
  March 9 – Sava II Petrović-Njegoš, Metropolitan of Cetinje (b. 1702)
  March 17 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematical physicist (b. 1700)
  April 7 – Taksin, King of Thonburi (Thailand) (b. 1734)
  April 13 – Metastasio, Italian poet, librettist (b. 1698)
  April 17 – Baal Shem of London, British Kabbalist (b. 1708)
  April 22
  Anne Bonny, Irish-born pirate in the Caribbean (b. 1702)
  Josef Seger, Czech composer and organist (b. 1716)
  April 28 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
  May 8 – Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese statesman (b. 1699)
  May 15 – Richard Wilson, British painter (b. 1714)
  May 16 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
  May 20 – William Emerson, English mathematician (b. 1701)
  May 22 – Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1752)
  June 11 – William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor (burned at the stake by Native Americans) (b. 1732)
  June 18 – John Wood, the Younger, English architect (b. 1728)
  June 21 – Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, German prince (b. 1722)
  July 1 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)
  July 15 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
  August 27 – John Laurens, American soldier (b. 1754)
  August 31 – George Croghan, American colonist
  September 5 – Bartolina Sisa, Bolivian indigenous Aymara heroine, rebel leader
  September 6
  Gregoria Apaza, Bolivian indigenous leader (b. 1751)
  Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
  September 14 – Nicholas Cooke, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1717)
  October 2 – Charles Lee, Continental Army general during the American War of Independence (b. 1732)
  November 5 – James Burrow, British scholar (b. 1701)
  November 21 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (b. 1709)
  December 7 – Hyder Ali, Indian general, Sultan of Mysore (b. 1720)
  December 16 – William Cole (antiquary), British antiquarian (b. 1714)
  December 27 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher (b. 1697)
  date unknown
  Christine Kirch, German astronomer (b. 1696)
  Sabina Aufenwerth, German potter (b. 1706)
  Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Swedish botanist (b. 1743)
caption: William Crawford
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