Editing 1777 (section)

===April–June===
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Anna Chamber]], British noblewoman and poet (b. [[1709]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Antonio Joli]], Italian painter of ''vedute'' and ''capricci'' (b. [[1700]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal]], Palestinian rabbi preaching in the Americas (b. [[1733]])
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay]], marine captain and colonial administrator in New France (b. [[1708]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford]], Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (b. [[1715]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot]], British governor of Madras (b. [[1719]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Button Gwinnett]], a signatory of the American Declaration of Independence (b. [[1735]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[David Wooster]], American general in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War (b. [[1711]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[William Douglas (colonel)|William Douglas]], American military officer, leading regiments from Connecticut in the American Revolutionary War (b. [[1742]])
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Henry Fane of Wormsley]], English politician (b. [[1703]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Cornelia Schlosser]], sister and only sibling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to survive to adulthood (b. [[1750]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Georg Friedrich Meier]], German philosopher and aesthetician (b. [[1718]])