Augustus FitzRoy (1735-1811)
Mar 14 3rd Duke of Grafton, British Prime Minister (1768-70), dies at 75
- Mar 19 Frantisek Adam Mica, Bohemian composer, dies at 65
- Apr 3 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish court painter, dies at 83
- Apr 5 Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies
- Apr 7 Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician, dies at 53
- May 4 Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
- May 5 Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
- May 12 Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, French classical cellist and composer, dies at 52
- May 28 Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
- Jun 11 Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82
- Jun 19 Samuel Chase, American judge (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 70
- Jul 19 Christian Gotthilf Tag, German composer, dies at 76
- Jul 28 Heinrich Joseph von Collin, Austria dramatist and poet (Coriolan), dies at 39
- Jul 30 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Spanish Catholic priest, and leader Mexican independence, executed at 58
- Aug 2 William Williams, American merchant (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 80
- Aug 3 Sebastiaan C. Nederburgh, Dutch director-general of East Indies Co, dies at 49
- Aug 12 John Francis Edward Acton, French-born English Naval Commander and PM of Naples (remembered for his brutality towards French supporters), dies at 77
- Aug 18 Johann Heinrich Zang, German composer and organist, dies at 78
- Aug 20 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer (Falkland Islands, Bougainville Island), dies at 81
- Sep 3 Ignaz Franzl, German composer and violinist, dies at 75
- Sep 6 Julien-Amable Mathieu, French composer, dies at 77
- Sep 8 Peter Simon Pallas, Prussian geologist and zoologist working in Russia, dies at 69
- Sep 30 Thomas Percy, English literary and bishop of Dromore, dies at 82
- Oct 7 August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch mayor and orangist, dies at 68
- Oct 11 Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician, naturalist, and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons, dies at 86
- Oct 15 Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (b. 1735)
- Nov 8 Charles Ferdinand Bentinck, Dutch military officer (Governor of Suriname 1809-11), dies at 47
- Nov 21 Heinrich von Kleist, German writer, dramatist and poet (Penthesilea, The Marquise of O), dies in a suicide pact at 34
- Nov 27 Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
- Dec 7 Ignaz Spangler, composer, dies at 54
- Dec 8 Eliza Poe, English-American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Po, dies of tuberculosis at 23 or 24
- Dec 17 John Antes, American composer and missionary, dies at 71
- Dec 17 Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny, French dramatist and composer, dies at 54
Assassination
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Plane Crash
Poisoning