- Jan 14 Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris), dies at 59
- Jan 27 Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, German lieder and ballad composer, and conductor, dies at 42
- Feb 2 Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
- Feb 9 Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves, British admiral (Seven Years' War, American War of Independence), dies at 76
- Feb 26 Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral and Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy, dies at 83
- Mar 7 Johann Georg Witthauer, German composer, dies at 50
- Mar 29 Frederic Thieme, French composer, dies at 51
- Apr 18 Erasmus Darwin, English physician writer and botanist (grandfather of Charles Darwin), dies at 70
Martha Washington (1731-1802)
May 22 1st US First Lady (1789-97), dies at 70
- Jun 2 Pemulwuy [Bembilwuyam] Indigenous Australian (Bidjigal) who resisted colonization, shot to death, his head later sent to Joseph Banks (b. c. 1750) [1]
- Jun 28 Johann Jakob Engel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark), dies at 60
- Jul 6 Daniel Morgan, American soldier and politician (Battle of Cowpens, Whiskey Rebellion), dies at 66
Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1771-1802)
Jul 22 French anatomist and physiologist (tissue theory), dies at 30 after falling downstairs at the Hotel-Dieu and acquiring a fever
- Jul 28 Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72
- Aug 3 Henry, Prince of Prussia and diplomat (led armies during Silesian Wars and the Seven Years' War), dies at 76
- Aug 10 Franz Aepinus, German physician and physicist, dies at 77
- Aug 23 Corona Schröter, German singer. and composer, dies at 51
- Sep 24 Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow), commits suicide by drinking poison at 53
- Sep 26 Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
- Oct 22 Samuel Arnold, English organist, theater composer (The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern), and music director (Marylebone Gardens). at 62
- Oct 29 Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, French composer, dies at 95
- Nov 7 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, Austrian composer, dies at 50
- Nov 9 Thomas Girtin, English artist, watercolorist and etcher ("The White House, Chelsea"), dies in his painting room at 27 from suspected asthma, consumption, or ossification of the heart
- Nov 12 Charles van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 62
- Nov 16 André Michaux, French botanist, dies at 56
- Dec 31 Francis Lewis, Welsh-American merchant and US Founding Father (signed the Declaration of Independence), dies at 89
- Dec 31 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, German composer, dies at 53
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