People who died in 1778
Voltaire
1694
– 1778
· Age 83
Deceased
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712
– 1778
· Age 66
Deceased
Carl Linnaeus
1707
– 1778
· Age 70
Deceased
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
1708
– 1778
· Age 69
Deceased
Laura Bassi
1711
– 1778
· Age 66
Deceased
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720
– 1778
· Age 58
Deceased
Thomas Arne
1710
– 1778
· Age 67
Deceased
Anna Maria Mozart
1720
– 1778
· Age 57
Deceased
James Hargreaves
1720
– 1778
· Age 57
Deceased
Étienne-Gabriel Morelly
1717
– 1778
· Age 61
Deceased
Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo
1701
– 1778
· Age 77
Deceased
Charles De Geer
1720
– 1778
· Age 58
Deceased
Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
1723
– 1778
· Age 54
Deceased
Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano
1721
– 1778
· Age 57
Deceased
Louis, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1725
– 1778
· Age 53
Deceased
Francesca Cuzzoni
1696
– 1778
· Age 82
Deceased
Thomas Linley
1756
– 1778
· Age 22
Deceased
Pedro de Cevallos
1715
– 1778
· Age 63
Deceased
Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg
1717
– 1778
· Age 60
Deceased
Lorenz Christoph Mizler
1711
– 1778
· Age 66
Deceased
Francesco Cetti
1726
– 1778
· Age 52
Deceased
Johann Sebastian Bach
1748
– 1778
· Age 29
Deceased