page_title: 1776
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1776 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach (1696-1776), princess-abbess of Essen and Thorn
context_page_description: 1776 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1776th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 776th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1776, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 6 – James Gabriel Montresor, British military engineer (b. 1704)
  January 8 – James Frye, colonial soldier (b. 1709)
  January 12 – Johann Philipp Murray, German historian interested in early Nordic studies and relations between England and Scandinavia (b. 1726)
  January 14 – Edward Cornwallis, British military officer, first Governor of Nova Scotia (b. 1713)
  January 21 – Jacques de Romas, French physicist (b. 1713)
  February 13 – Élisabeth Catherine Ballard (b. 1704)
  February 18 – Lady Anne Monson, English botanist (b. 1726)
  March 4 – Johann Georg Ziesenis, German – Danish portrait painter (b. 1716)
  March 5 – Pierre-Robert Le Cornier de Cideville, French magistrate and scholar (b. 1693)
  March 7 – John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (b. 1737)
  March 10
  Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
  Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant, philanthropist (b. 1701)
  March 24 – John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
  March 26 – Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725)
  March 29 – Johann Gotthelf Lindner, German university teacher and writer (b. 1729)
  March 30 – Jonathan Belcher, British-American lawyer (b. 1710)
  March 31 – Jane Randolph Jefferson, wife of Peter Jefferson and the mother of US president Thomas Jefferson (b. 1720)
  April 7 – Charles-Pierre Colardeau, French poet (b. 1732)
  April 19 – Jacob Emden, leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed Orthodox Judaism (b. 1697)
  April 20 – Olivier de Vézin (b. 1707)
  April 29 – Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveller and writer (b. 1713)
  May 4 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
  May 6 – James Kent, English organist and composer (b. 1700)
  May 7 – Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria, Duchess of Bavaria by birth and Margravine of Baden-Baden by marriage (b. 1734)
  May 23 – Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, French salon holder (b. 1732)
  May 25 – Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam (b. 1711)
  May 30 – Albert Frick, German theologian (b. 1714)
  June 2 – Continental Army General John Thomas, from smallpox (b. 1724)
  June 10
  Hsinbyushin (b. 1736)
  Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
  June 13 – Elizabeth Scott, British-American poet and Christian hymnwriter (b. 1708)
  June 20 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor, manufacturer (b. 1704)
  July 7 – Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
  July 10 – Richard Peters, English-born American clergyman (b. 1704)
  July 15 – Richard Bampfylde, British politician (b. 1722)
  July 16 – Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach, Princess-abbess of Essen Abbey and Thorn Abbey (b. 1696)
  July 21 – Benedicta Margareta von Löwendal, German industrialist (b. 1683)
  August 1
  Edward Bentham, Oxford based theologian who in 1763 (b. 1707)
  Francis Salvador, American patriot (b. 1747)
  August 2 – Louis François, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
  August 14 – Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart (b. 1721)
  August 25 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher (b. 1711)
  August 27 – William Stark, Revolutionary War era officer (b. 1724)
  August 29 – Joseph Arnold, pre-revolutionary resident of North Kingstown and Exeter (b. 1710)
  September 1 – Angelica Le Gru Perotti, Italian woman painter of the Rococo (b. 1719)
  September 6 – Chamaraja Wodeyar VIII, twentieth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1770 to 1776 (b. 1759)
  September 22 – Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, writer and patriot (executed) (b. 1755)
  September 24 – Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan, Anglo-Irish peer (b. 1685)
  September 28 – Cadwallader Colden, physician (b. 1688)
  October 3 – Ayşe Sultan, Ottoman princess (b. 1713)
  October 10 – Karl Gotthelf von Hund, German Freemason (b. 1722)
  October 15 – John Ellis, naturalist (b. 1710)
  October 17 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
  October 28 – Princess Sophie of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Princess of Saxe-Hildburghausen by birth (b. 1760)
  October 30 – Simón de Anda y Salazar, Spanish Basque governor of the Philippines from July (b. 1709)
  November 15 – Fernando de Silva, 12th Duke of Alba, Spanish duke (b. 1714)
  November 17 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronom
caption: Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach died 16 July
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