Jan 21 Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56 in the year 1774. 


Jan 30 Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history. 


Feb 04 Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701) died in the year 1774. 


Feb 10 Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history. 


Apr 04 On this day in history oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17 


Apr 23 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies in the year 1774. 


May 04 In the year 1774 death of anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714) 


May 10 In the year 1774 louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64 

