1785 deaths
Category: 1785 deaths

Katharine Steel
Alternate Names: Katharine Fisher ; Katy of the Fort ; Witty Katy of the Fort ; Gender: Female Life Dates: d. 1785 Types: Adventure, physical feat or survival; American ; Frontierswoman; Mother, model of family life; widow; Note: Defended fellow

Donald MacQueen
Church of Scotland minister

Thomas Barker
Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford

Vincenzo Rota
Italian priest and teacher

Daniel Graisberry
Irish printer

John Goodrich
Loyalist privateer during the American Revolution

Edward Bayly
Irish Anglican priest

Daniyal Biy
Atalyk of Bukhara from 1758 to 1785

Fakhr ad-Din al-Burdwani
18th-century Islamic scholar

Adam Hayes

Shah Nuri Bengali
18th-century Islamic scholar

Peckham Williams
High Sheriff of Sussex

John Burns
Unmarried youngest brother of the poet Robert Burns

James Davis
First public printer to the Colony of North Carolina

Adam Fergusson
Church of Scotland minister

Bryan Finucane
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Samuel Preston Moore

Hugh Shiell

John Forsayeth

Daniel Parker (silversmith)

William Homes (silversmith)

Sir Richard Steele, 1st Baronet

Daniel Christian Fueter

George Emptage

Elizabeth Marsh
English writer

William Caswell
American military leader

Horry, Daniel

James Bickham

Homilius

Giovanni Cipriani
Researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-5065-7375

Mary, Countess of Harold
English aristocrat and philanthropist

Elizabeth Marsh
British biologist

Giovanni Battista Cipriani
Italian artist

Thomas Pye
British navy officer of the British Royal Navy
Richard Henderson
American pioneer

Thomas Williams
Settler in Detroit, Michigan

Henry Taylor
British Anglican priest and religious controversialist
Jonathan Trumbull
American revolutionary-era Governor of the Colony and State of Connecticut

William Strahan
British politician and printer
James Oglethorpe
British Army general, founder of the Georgia colony