May 10 George Vancouver, British explorer, (surveyed Pacific coast from San Francisco to Vancouver Island), dies at 40 May 19 William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English nobleman and politician, dies at 75 May 25 Asmus Jakob Carstens, Danish-German Neoclassical painter, dies at 44 Apr 1798 Famous Deaths by Year Jun 1798 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Car Crash Hanging Killed in Action Plane Crash Poisoning