Overview of the events of 1777 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1777 in poetry
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Births
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Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 30 – Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (born 1726), German writer, translator, editor and composer
- February 3 – Hugh Kelly (born 1739), Irish poet and dramatist
- March 2 – Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford (born 1717), English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician
- August 26 – Francis Fawkes (born 1720), English poet and translator
- September 24 (bur.) – James Fortescue (born 1716), English
- October 12 (October 1 O.S.) – Alexander Sumarokov (born 1717), Russian poet and dramatist
- December 12 – Albrecht von Haller (born 1708), German
- Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (born 1709), German
- Johann Gottlieb Willamov (born 1736), German