1777 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 30 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (born 1726), German writer, translator and editor and composer
  • December 12 – Albrecht von Haller (born 1708), German
  • March 2 – Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, (born 1717), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician
  • Francis Fawkes (born 1720), English poet and translator
  • Alexander Sumarokov (born 1717), Russian poet and playwright
  • Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born 1709), German
  • Johann Gottlieb Willamov (born 1736), German

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