Dec 4 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist and physicist ("animal electricity", gave the term "galvanize"), dies at 61 Dec 9 Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage), dies at 69 Dec 16 Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist, dies at 72 Dec 19 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62 Dec 20 Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver and art collector, dies at 72 Nov 1798 Famous Deaths by Year Jan 1799 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
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