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== Deaths == === January–March === [[File:Francis Lightfoot Lee.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Francis Lightfoot Lee]]]] * [[January 11]] – [[Francis Lightfoot Lee]], member of the House of Burgesses in the Colony of Virginia (b. [[1734]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern]], queen consort of Prussia (b. [[1715]]) * [[January 19]] – [[David Graeme (1716–1797)|David Graeme]], British Army general (b. [[1716]]) * [[January 26]] – [[Antão de Almada, 12th Count of Avranches]] (b. [[1718]]) * [[January 30]] – [[John Glover (general)|John Glover]], American military general, fisherman and merchant (b. [[1732]]) * [[February 1]] – [[James Duane]], American lawyer (b. [[1733]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Princess Joséphine of Lorraine]] (b. [[1753]]) * [[February 11]] – [[Antoine Dauvergne]], French composer (b. [[1713]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet]], British politician and member of the English gentry (b. [[1716]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony]], daughter of King Augustus III of Poland (b. [[1728]]) * [[February 21]] – [[John Parkhurst (lexicographer)|John Parkhurst]], English academic (b. [[1728]]) * [[February 22]] – [[Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen]], German officer and adventurer (b. [[1720]]) * [[March 2]] – [[Horace Walpole]], English politician and writer (b. [[1717]]) * [[March 5]] – [[Empress Xiaoshurui]], first Empress Consort of the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. [[1760]]) * [[March 7]] ** [[John Gabriel Stedman]], British–Dutch colonial soldier and author (b. [[1744]]) ** [[Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey]], German writer (b. [[1711]]) * [[March 16]] – [[Cristina Roccati]], Italian scholar in physics (b. [[1732]]) * [[March 17]] – [[Daniel Dulany the Younger]], Maryland Loyalist politician (b. [[1722]]) * [[March 26]] – [[James Hutton]], Scottish geologist (b. [[1726]]) * [[March 30]] – [[Pierre Jean Van Stabel]], French rear-admiral (b. [[1744]]) * [[March 31]] ** [[Olaudah Equiano]], Nigerian ex-slave, abolitionist (b. c. [[1746]]) ** [[Elizabeth Washington Lewis]], younger sister of George Washington, the only sister to live to adulthood (b. [[1733]]) === April–June === [[File:François-Noël Babeuf.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[François-Noël Babeuf]]]] [[File:MohammadKhanQajari.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar]]]] * [[April 4]] – [[Pierre-François Berruer]], French sculptor (b. [[1733]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Susanna Boylston]], prominent early-American socialite (b. [[1708]]) * [[April 27]] – [[Henry Louis, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken]], titular prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken (b. [[1768]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Elizabeth Ryves]], Irish writer, translator (b. [[1750]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Jedediah Strutt]], English hosier and cotton spinner from Belper (b. [[1726]]) * [[May 14]] – [[Giovanni Fagnano]], Italian churchman and mathematician (b. [[1715]]) * [[May 17]] – [[Michel-Jean Sedaine]], French dramatist (b. [[1719]]) * [[May 25]] ** [[Andrew Elliot]], acting colonial governor of the Province of New York (b. [[1728]]) ** [[John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden]], British field marshal (b. [[1719]]) * [[May 27]] ** [[François-Noël Babeuf]], French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. [[1760]]) ** [[Augustin Alexandre Darthé]], French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. [[1769]]) * [[June 15]] – [[Christen Friis Rottbøll]], Danish physician, botanist and pupil of Carolus Linnaeus (b. [[1727]]) * [[June 17]] ** [[Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar]], founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran (b. [[1742]]) ** [[Mohammad Khan Qajar]], Iranian king (b. [[1742]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Andreas Peter Bernstorff]], Danish statesman, politician (b. [[1735]]) * [[June 24]] – [[Bahadur Shah of Nepal]], younger son of King Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723–1775) of modern Nepal (b. [[1757]]) * [[June 30]] ** [[Welbore Ellis Doyle]], third Military Governor of British Ceylon (b. [[1758]]) ** [[Richard Parker (mutineer)|Richard Parker]], English sailor executed for his role as president of the so-called "Floating Republic" (b. [[1767]]) === July–September === [[File:EdmundBurke1771.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Edmund Burke]]]] [[File:Joseph Wright of Derby - self-portrait c.1780 - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Joseph Wright of Derby]]]] [[File:Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie (c. 1797).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Mary Wollstonecraft]]]] [[File:Asifportrait2 - Asuf ud Daula.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Asaf-ud-Daula]]]] * [[July 9]] – [[Edmund Burke]], Irish philosopher (b. [[1723]]) * [[July 11]] – [[Ienăchiță Văcărescu]], Wallachian writer (b. [[1740]]) * [[July 12]] – [[Peter Bonnevaux]], fourth Military Governor of British Ceylon, third General Officer Commanding (b. [[1752]]) * [[July 14]] – [[Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc]], member of the wealthy and influential Rohan family of France (b. [[1725]]) * [[July 25]] ** [[Richard Bowen (Royal Navy)|Richard Bowen]], officer of the Royal Navy during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars (b. [[1761]]) ** [[George Thorp (Royal Navy officer)|George Thorp]], officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars (b. [[1777]]) * [[July 29]] – [[John Weatherhead]], officer of the British Royal Navy (b. [[1775]]) * [[August 3]] ** [[August 3]] – [[Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst]], British soldier and conqueror of Quebec (b. [[1717]]) ** [[James Davenport (Connecticut congressman)|James Davenport]], American lawyer (b. [[1758]]) * [[August 6]] – [[James Pettit Andrews]], English historian, antiquary (b. [[1737]]) * [[August 10]] – [[Alexei Senyavin]], Russian admiral (b. [[1716]]) * [[August 22]] – [[Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser]], Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. [[1724]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Thomas Chittenden]], first governor of the state of Vermont (b. [[1730]]) * [[August 29]] – [[Joseph Wright of Derby]], English landscape and portrait painter (b. [[1734]]) * [[September 4]] – [[Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet]], Church of England clergyman, baronet (b. [[1710]]) * [[September 10]] – [[Mary Wollstonecraft]], English feminist author (b. [[1759]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Wollstonecraft {{!}} Biography, Works, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=April 10, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * [[September 12]] – [[David Forman (general)|David Forman]], brigadier general of New Jersey militia (b. [[1745]]) * [[September 19]] ** [[Samuel Enderby]], English [[whale oil]] merchant known for sponsoring Arctic exploration (b. [[1719]]) ** [[Lazare Hoche]], French soldier who rose to be general of the Revolutionary army (b. [[1768]]) * [[September 21]] ** [[Asaf-ud-Daula]], nawab wazir of Oudh (b. [[1748]]) ** [[Hugh Pigot (Royal Navy officer, born 1769)|Hugh Pigot]], British Royal Navy officer (b. [[1769]]) * [[September 25]] – [[John Baughan]], English carpenter, thief and transportee to Australia (b. [[1754]]) * [[September 30]] – [[Gunning Bedford Sr.]], American lawyer and politician from New Castle (b. [[1742]]) === October–December === [[File:Agui.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Agui]]]] * [[October 9]] – [[Vilna Gaon]], Lithuanian rabbi (b. [[1720]]) * [[October 10]] ** [[Agui]], Manchu noble general for the Qing dynasty (b. [[1717]]) ** [[Carter Braxton]], signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, merchant, planter, Virginia politician (b. [[1736]]) * [[October 14]] – [[William Orr (United Irishman)|William Orr]], member of the United Irishmen (executed) (b. [[1766]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Jean-François Hubert]], bishop of Quebec (b. [[1739]]) * [[October 20]] – [[William Cooke (Provost of King's College)|William Cooke]], English cleric, academic (b. [[1711]]) * [[November 14]] – [[Ivan Shuvalov]], founder of [[Moscow University]] (b. [[1727]]) * [[November 16]] – King [[Frederick William II of Prussia]] (b. [[1744]])<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Frederick William II. of Prussia |volume=11 |pages=64–65 |inline=1}}</ref> * [[November 18]] – [[Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat]], French shipbuilder, merchant (b. [[1719]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Andrew Adams (congressman)|Andrew Adams]], American lawyer (b. [[1736]]) * [[November 27]] – [[Johann Baptist Wendling]], Alsatian-born flute player, composer of the Mannheim School (b. [[1723]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Samuel Langdon]], American Congregational clergyman, President of Harvard University (b. [[1723]]) * [[December 1]] – [[Oliver Wolcott]], American politician (b. [[1726]]) * [[December 11]] – [[Richard Brocklesby]], English physician (b. [[1722]]) * [[December 13]] – [[Louis Legendre]], French politician of the Revolution period (b. [[1752]]) * [[December 23]] ** [[Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg]] (b. [[1732]]) ** [[Solomon Southwick (American Revolution)|Solomon Southwick]], Newport, Rhode Island printer, newspaper publisher (b. [[1731]]) * [[December 26]] – [[John Wilkes]], English radical (b. [[1725]]) * [[December 30]] – [[David Martin (artist)|David Martin]], British painter, engraver (b. [[1737]]) * ''Date unknown'' ** [[Joseph Ferrers]], English Carmelite friar.<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Ferrers, Joseph |volume= 18 |last= Goodwin |first= Gordon |author-link= |page=386 |short= 1}}</ref> ** [[Wang Zhenyi (astronomer)|Wang Zhenyi]], Chinese astronomer
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