page_title: 1785
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1785 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Baldassare Galuppi a.k.a Il Buranello (1706-1785) oil on copper 11 x 9 cm inscribed: Bald&#160;: Galuppi.D. Buranello Mae. Alla. Cap. Di. S. Marco. 1751
context_page_description: 1785 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1785th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 785th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1785, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 3 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
  January 6 – Haym Salomon, Polish-Jewish American financier of the American Revolution (b. 1740)
  January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar, critic (b. 1713)
  January 23 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
  February 24 – Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (b. 1722)
  February 26 – Barbara Erni, Liechtenstein confidence trickster (b. 1743)
  March 14 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director (b. 1713)
  April 14 – William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
  April 26 – Johan Samuel Augustin, German-Danish astronomical writer, civil servant (b. 1715)
  May 8
  Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
  Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (b. 1701)
  June 2
  Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
  Gottfried August Homilius, German composer, cantor and organist (b. 1714)
  June 30 – James Oglethorpe, English general, founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
  July 5 – Anne Poulett, British politician (b. 1711)
  July 6 – Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1711)
  July 9 – William Strahan, British politician (b. 1715)
  July 12 – Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais, French jurist on the so-called "Brittany affair" (b. 1701)
  July 13 – Stephen Hopkins, Founding Father of the United States (b. 1707)
  July 17 – Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British duchess (b. 1715)
  August 17 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
  August 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier, politician (b. 1716)
  August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
  August 31 – Pietro Chiari, Italian playwright (b. 1712)
  September 19 – Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Queen consort of Sardinia (b. 1729)
  September 30 – Johann Jakob Moser, German jurist (b. 1701)
  October 4
  David Brearley, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
  Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (b. 1736)
  November 13 –  Joaquín Ibarra, Spanish printer (b. 1725)
  November 15 – César Gabriel de Choiseul, French officer (b. 1712)
  November 18 – Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier, writer (b. 1725)
  November 19 – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
  November 20 – James Wright, Governor of Georgia (b. 1716)
  November 25 – Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712)
  December 6 – Kitty Clive, English actress, playwright (b. 1711)
  December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author (b. 1742)
  date unknown – Faustina Pignatelli, Italian mathematician  (b. 1705)
caption: Baldassare Galuppi
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