Edward Jenner (1749-1823)
Jan 26 English physician, father of (western) immunology, pioneered smallpox vaccinations, dies of a stroke at 73
- Jan 27 Charles Hutton, English mathematician and surveyor, dies at 85
- Feb 7 Ann Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Romance of the Forest), dies at 58
- Feb 16 Johann Gottfried Schict, German composer, dies at 69
- Feb 16 Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French Romantic painter and draughtsman - allegorical paintings and portraits, dies at 64
- Feb 21 Charles Wolfe, Irish poet, dies at 31
- Feb 26 John Philip Kemble, British actor and director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden), dies at 66
- Mar 14 Charles François Dumouriez, French general during the Revolutionary Wars, dies at 84
- Mar 18 Jean-Baptiste Bréval, French cellist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 69
- Mar 24 Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch politician, Mayor of Alkmaar, dies at 66
- Mar 25 Coelestin Jungbauer, German composer, dies at 75
- Apr 7 Jacques Charles [Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles], French inventor and balloonist (with Nicholas Robert was 1st to take flight in a hydrogen balloon), dies at 76
- Apr 10 Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (elementary philosophy), dies at 65
- Apr 23 Joseph Nollekens, English sculptor (portrait busts, patronized by George III), dies at 85
- May 15 Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer, dies at 69
- Jun 1 Louis-Nicholas Davout, French military commander under Napoleon (Marshall of the Empire, defeated Prussians at Battle of Auerstädt), dies at 53
- Jul 22 William Bartram, American naturalist and writer (1st naturalist to document tropical forests of Florida in "Bartram's Travels"), dies at 84 [1]
- Aug 2 Lazare Carnot, French politician, engineer and mathematician known as the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, dies at 70
- Aug 3 Jacob Abraham de Mist, Dutch statesman, dies at 74
- Aug 20 Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German encyclopedia publisher, dies at 51
Pius VII (1742-1823)
Aug 20 Italian bishop of Imola and Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
- Sep 11 David Ricardo, English economist (On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation), dies at 51
- Sep 17 Abraham L Breguet, French clockmaker, dies at 76
- Sep 20 Daniel Steibelt, German pianist and composer, dies at 57
- Sep 23 Matthew Baillie, Scottish Physician (first systematic study of pathology in 1793), dies at 61
- Oct 26 Josef Preindl, Austrian organist and composer, dies at 67
- Oct 30 Edmund Cartwright, English inventor (power loom), dies at 80
- Nov 12 Emanuel Aloys Förster, Bohemian composer and music teacher, dies at 75
- Dec 3 Joseph Pouteau, French composer and organist, dies at 84
- Dec 7 Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, German bassoonist, dies at 79
- Dec 14 Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naples Revolution 1799), dies at 53
- Dec 19 Nicolas-Joseph Hüllmandel, Alsatian composer, dies at 67
- Dec 24 Philipp Christoph Kayser, German pianist and composer, dies at 68
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