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== Deaths == === JanuaryβJune === [[File:OlderPittThe Younger.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Pitt the Younger]]]] *[[January 8]] β [[Magdalena DΓ‘valos y Maldonado]], Ecuadorian scholar, socialite (b. 1725) *[[January 23]] β [[William Pitt the Younger]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1759)<ref>{{cite web |title=History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-pitt |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> *[[February 2]] β [[Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne]], French writer (b. 1734)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Restif, Nicolas Edme|volume=23|page=200}}</ref> *[[February 16]] β [[Franz von Weyrother]], Austrian general (b. 1755) *[[February 19]] β [[Elizabeth Carter]], English writer (b. 1717)<ref>{{cite web|title=Elizabeth Carter - British author|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Carter|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=January 3, 2017}}</ref> *[[February 20]] β [[Lachlan McIntosh]], Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725) *[[March 20]] β [[Salomea Deszner]], Polish actress, singer and theater director (b. 1759) *[[March 23]] β [[George Pinto (composer)|George Pinto]], English composer (b. 1785) *[[March 30]] β [[Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire]], English noblewoman, socialite, political organizer, style icon, author and activist (b. 1757) *[[April 9]] β [[William V, Prince of Orange]], last [[Stadtholder]] of the Dutch Republic (b. 1748) *[[April 10]] β [[Horatio Gates]], British soldier, served as an American general during the [[American Revolutionary War]] (b. 1727) *[[April 22]] β [[Pierre-Charles Villeneuve]], French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763) *[[May 9]] β [[Robert Morris (financier)|Robert Morris]], English-born merchant, one of the [[Founding Fathers of the United States]], "financier of the [[American Revolution]]" (b. 1734) *[[May 24]] β [[John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll]], British field marshal (b. 1723) *[[May 30]] β [[Charles Dickinson (attorney and duelist)|Charles Dickinson]], American attorney and duelist (killed in a duel by [[Andrew Jackson]]) (b. 1780) *[[June 23]] β [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]], French naturalist (b. 1723) === JulyβDecember === [[File:Charles de Coulomb.png|110px|thumb|right|[[Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]]]] [[File:Benjamin Banneker mural cropped.tif|thumb|right|110px|[[Benjamin Banneker]]]] *[[July 4]] β [[Charles Henri Sanson]], Royal Executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI (b. 1739) *[[July 10]] β [[George Stubbs]], English animal painter (b. 1724) *[[July 11]] β [[James Smith (Pennsylvania politician)|James Smith]], Irish-born American lawyer and politician, signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] (b. 1719) *[[July 16]] β [[Johann Gottfried Arnold]], German cellist (lung infection) (b. 1773) *[[July 17]] β [[Sir Richard Sullivan, 1st Baronet]], British politician (b. 1752) *[[August 10]] β [[Michael Haydn]], Austrian composer and brother of [[Joseph Haydn]] (b. 1737) *[[August 22]] β [[Jean-HonorΓ© Fragonard]], French painter (b. 1742) *[[August 23]] β [[Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]], French physicist (b. 1736) *[[September 9]] β [[William Paterson (judge)|William Paterson]], Irish-born American judge, signer of the [[United States Constitution]], [[Governor of New Jersey]] (b. 1745) *[[September 13]] β [[Charles James Fox]], English politician (b. 1749) *[[September 30]] β [[William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont]], Irish politician (b. 1722) *[[October 9]] β [[Benjamin Banneker]], American astronomer and surveyor (b. 1731) *[[October 10]] β [[Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772β1806)|Louis Ferdinand of Prussia]], German prince (killed in battle) (b. 1772) *[[October 23]] β [[Timothy Dexter]], American businessman and eccentric (b. 1748) *[[October 25]] β [[Henry Knox]], Secretary of War under [[George Washington]] (b. 1750) *[[October 26]] β [[John Graves Simcoe]], English army officer and colonial administrator, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752) *[[November 10]] β [[Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick]], German ruling prince and general (died of wounds) (b. 1735) *[[November 23]] β [[Roger Newdigate]], English politician (b. 1719)<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Newdigate, Sir Roger}}</ref> *[[December 9]] β [[Josef Georg HΓΆrl]], Austrian politician (b. 1722) *[[December 22]] β [[William Vernon]], American merchant (b. 1719) === Date unknown === * [[Mungo Park (explorer)|Mungo Park]], Scottish explorer (drowned in attack) (b. 1771)
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