page_title: 1772
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1772 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Original replica of the portrait exhibited at the Salon of 1747 (now in the Art Institute of Chicago)
context_page_description: 1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1772nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 772nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1772, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: February 4 – Princess Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b. 1715)
  February 8 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
  February 11 – Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo, Venetian aristocrat and salon holder (b. 1715)
  February 18 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
  February 20 – Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein (b. 1694)
  March 21 – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
  March 22 – John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
  March 26 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
  March 27 – Taylor White, British judge (b. 1701)
  March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
  April 28 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, Danish royal physician (b. 1737)
  May 1 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719)
  May 22 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
  June 15 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694)
  June 18
  Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born Austrian physician (b. 1700)
  Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge, philosopher (b. 1706)
  June 22 – François-Vincent Toussaint, French writer most famous for Les Mœurs (The Manners) (b. 1715)
  August 31 – William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
  September 30 – James Brindley, British canal builder (b. 1716)
  October 7 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher, abolitionist (b. 1720)
  October 8 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist, composer (b. 1711)
  October 14 – Benjamin Green, Canadian merchant and judge (b. 1713)
  October 16 – Ahmad Shah Durrani, Afghan founder of the Durrani Empire (cancer) (b. 1724)
  October 19 – Andrea Belli, Maltese architect, businessman (b. 1703)
  November 10 – Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
  November 18 – Madhavrao I, ruler of India (b. 1745)
  November 19 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
  December 7 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer, scholar (b. 1695)
  Date unknown – Panna Cinka, Hungarian violinist (b. 1711)
  Date unknown – Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Ruler of Zubarah (b.circa 1705)
caption: Jean-Joseph de Mondonville
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