Deaths Date 1792 | History by KabAstro

Jan 10 Jean-Louis Laruette, composer, dies at 60
Feb 23 Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68

Leopold II (1747-1792)

Mar 1 Grand Duke of Tuscany (1765-90) and Holy Roman Emperor (1790-92), dies at 44

Mar 3 Robert Adam, Scottish architect and designer (Adelphi Terrace, London), dies at 63
Mar 10 John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1760-63), dies at 78

Gustav III (1746-1792)

Mar 29 King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of septicemia at 46 after being shot by an assassin thirteen days earlier

Apr 3 George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
Apr 4 James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)
Apr 14 Maximilian Hell [Höll], Slovakian astronomer, Jesuit priest, and namesake of a lunar crater, dies at 71

Tiradentes (1746-1792)

Apr 21 Brazilian revolutionary and independence fighter (Inconfidência Mineira) considered a national hero, hanged, drawn and quartered in Rio de Janeiro at 45

Apr 23 Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer, dies at 50
Apr 25 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, German composer, dies at 54
Apr 25 Nicolas J Pelletier, French highwayman, 1st person guillotined
Apr 30 Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer and lawyer, dies at 36
Apr 30 John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, British statesman who claimed to have invented the sandwich, dies at 73
May 3 Carlo Zuccari, Italian composer and violinist, dies at 87
May 7 Aert Schouman, Dutch bird and portrait painter, dies at 82
May 10 John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
May 12 Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist, dies at 81
May 24 George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies
May 24 Jacob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Baltic German poet and dramatist (The Soldiers), dies at 41
Jun 4 John Burgoyne, British general (surrendered at Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War), dies at 70
Jun 16 Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
Jun 25 Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)
Jun 30 Francesco Antonio Rosetti, Bohemian double-bassist and composer, dies at abour 42 [birthdate uncertain, c. 1750]
Jul 6 Maria Louisa of Spain, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire, dies at 46
Jul 18 John Paul Jones, Scottish-American naval captain and the United States first well-known naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight"), dies of kidney failure and pneumonia at 45
Jul 29 René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
Aug 2 Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, German composer (Kantor at Gera), dies at 60

Richard Arkwright (1732-1792)

Aug 3 English industrialist and inventor (created the spinning frame, built Cromford Mill), dies at 59

Frederick North (1732-1792)

Aug 5 Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain (Tory: 1770-82), "who lost America", dies at 60

Aug 17 Jan Jachym Kopriva, Czech composer and organist, dies at 38
Aug 25 Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
Sep 3 Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat, dies at 42
Sep 18 Gottlieb August Spangenberg, German theologist and missionary (organized Moravian Church in North America), dies at 88
Sep 25 Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman, dies at 81

George Mason (1725-1792)

Oct 7 American statesman (Bill of Rights) and founding father, dies of natural causes at 66

Oct 22 Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer, dies at 67
Oct 28 John Smeaton, British civil engineer, dies at 68
Oct 28 Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist, died at 82
Nov 30 Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
Dec 15 Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer, known as "the Swedish Mozart", conductor, and pedagogue, dies of tuberculosis at 36