1785

Events 
 January 1 – The Montgolfier brothers fly across the English Channel.

 Births 
 December 26 – Laurent Clerc, co-founder of the first American school for the deaf

 Deaths 
January 3 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
January 23 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
April 14 – William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
May 8 – Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
June 2 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
June 30 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
August 17 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
August 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
October 4 – David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
November 19 – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
November 25 – Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712)
December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian writer (b. 1742)