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January1794

Famous People Who Died in January 1794

Jan 8 Justus Möser, German statesman and writer, dies at 73
Jan 10 Georg Forster, German writer, naturalist (A Voyage Round the World) and revolutionary, dies at 39

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Jan 16 English historian (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), dies in London at 56

Edward Gibbon

Jan 31 Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral and naval commander during the American War for Independence, dies at 82 or 83

Famous People by Cause of Death