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 Jan 1802 Famous Deaths by Year Mar 1802 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide