- Jan 1 Fedele Fenaroli, Italian composer, dies at 87
- Feb 1 Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer, dies at 74
- Feb 5 Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18) and King of Norway (1814-18), dies at 69
- Feb 13 Absalom Jones, African-American abolitionist and clergyman, dies at 71
- Feb 13 George Rogers Clark, American frontier military leader in Revolutionary War, dies at 65
- Feb 28 Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dutch publisher and writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56
- Mar 20 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, German musicologist (1st biography of Johann Sebastian Bach), dies at 69
- Mar 23 Nicolas Isouard, French composer, dies at 42
- Mar 25 Caspar Wessel, Danish-Norwegian mathematician, dies at 72
- Mar 28 Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 62
- Apr 18 Quint Ondaatje, Dutch philosopher, patriot, democracy advocate, and politician, dies at 59
- May 2 Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch military leader (Brigadier-General) and Governor-General (Dutch-East Indies, 1808-11; Dutch Gold Coast, 1811-15), dies at 55
- May 7 Leopold Koželuch [Jan Antonín Koželuh], Czech pianist, composer, kapellmeister, and teacher, dies at 70 [1]
- May 8 Franz Ignaz Kaa, German composer, dies at 78
Paul Revere (1735-1818)
May 10 American silversmith and patriot who alerted the colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, dies at 83
- May 14 Matthew Lewis, English novelist (The Monk), dies at 42
- May 26 Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian fieldmarshal (Minister of War during Napoleonic invasion), dies at 56
- Jun 4 John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44
- Jun 12 Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia (1801-1818), dies
- Jun 29 Carl Philipp Fohr, German painter and cartoonist, dies at 22
- Jul 28 Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (descriptive and differential geometry), politician (Minister of the Marine, 1792-93), and educator (École polytechnique), dies at 72
- Aug 22 Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
- Aug 28 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies
- Aug 31 Arthur St. Clair, American soldier and politician (President of the Continental Congress, 1787), dies at 81
- Sep 1 Robert Calder, British naval officer, dies at 73
- Sep 18 Olof Swartz, Swedish botanist (work on pteridophytes), dies at 57
- Oct 5 Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln, dies at 34
- Oct 22 Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72
Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
Oct 28 2nd US First Lady (1797-1801), dies of typhoid fever at 73
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