Year (''' MDCCLXXXIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Monday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- July 1 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , German composer (b. 1710 )
- July 31 - Denis Diderot , French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1713 )
- August 4 - Giovanni Battista Martini , Italian musician (b. 1706 )
- August 10 - Allan Ramsay , Scottish painter (b. 1713 )
- August 14 - Nathaniel Hone , Irish-born painter (b. 1718 )
- August 28 - Junípero Serra , Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. 1713 )
- September 4 - César-François Cassini De Thury , French astronomer (b. 1714 )
- September 8 - Ann Lee , American religious leader (b. 1736 )
- December 4 - Wiseman Claget , English classical scholar (b. 1721 )
- December 13 - Samuel Johnson , English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709 )
- December 25 - Yosa Buson , Japanese poet and painter (b. 1716 )
- December 26 - Seth Warner , American revolutionary leader (b. 1743 )
- Le Quy Don , Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. 1726 )
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