John Adams (1735-1826)
Jul 4 Second US President (1797-1801), Vice President (1789-97) and Founding Father, dies at 90
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Jul 4 3rd President of the United States (1801-09), dies at 83
Stamford Raffles (1781-1826)
Jul 5 British statesman and founder of Singapore, dies at 44 of apoplexy
- Jul 7 Friedrich Dülon, German flautist and composer, dies at 56
- Jul 8 Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
- Jul 11 Karl Bernhard Wessely, German composer (Sulamith und Eusebia), dies at 57
- Jul 17 Joseph Graetz, German organist, composer, and music educator, dies at 65
- Jul 22 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (found 1st asteroid-Ceres), dies at 80
- Jul 24 Jacob Kimball, American pioneering composer and musician, dies at 65
- Jul 25 Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
- Jul 25 Pavel Ivanovich Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 [OS Jul 13]
- Jul 26 Friedrich Wilhelm Weis, German physician and composer, dies at 82
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