People who died in the 1780s
17 notable people documented at Resting Places cemeteries died in the 1780s, according to Wikidata's death-date records. Listed by death year.
- Richard Stockton (1730–1781), politician, lawyer, judge · buried at Stony Brook Meeting House and Cemetery
- Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782), artist, painter · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
- Daniel Solander (1733–1782), scientific collector, botanical collector, scientific explorer · buried at Brookwood Cemetery
- James Otis (1725–1783), journalist, politician, lawyer · buried at Granary Burying Ground
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), musicographer, music theorist, musicologist · buried at Catacombs of Paris
- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), music theorist, geographer, university teacher · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
- Allan Ramsay (1713–1784), draftsperson, painter · buried at East Finchley Cemetery
- Anders Johan Lexell (1740–1784), university teacher, physicist, mathematician · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
- Franciszek Bohomolec (1720–1784), linguist, university teacher, council member · buried at Powązki Cemetery
- Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), slave, poet, writer · buried at Copp's Hill Burying Ground
- Haym Solomon (1740–1785), economics of banking, financier, entrepreneur · buried at Mikveh Israel Cemetery
- János Sajnovics (1733–1785), linguist, anthropologist, mathematician · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
- Stephen Hopkins (1707–1785), politician, lawyer, judge · buried at North Burial Ground
- William Whipple (1730–1785), military officer, politician · buried at Old North Cemetery (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)
- Gasparo Gozzi (1713–1786), prose writer, critic, literary critic · buried at San Michele Cemetery, Venice
- Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714–1787), conductor, composer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
- Francisco Javier Clavijero (1731–1787), Catholic theologian, philosopher, historian · buried at Panteón de Dolores