Editing 1796 (section)

== Deaths ==
=== January–March ===
[[File:Samuel Huntington - Charles Willson Peale.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)|Samuel Huntington]]]]
[[File:Sir William Chambers.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Chambers (architect)]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde]] French musician and chemist (b. [[1735]])
** [[Giambattista Vasco]], Italian economist (b. [[1733]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)|Samuel Huntington]], Connecticut jurist (b. [[1731]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Anna Barbara Reinhart]], Swiss mathematician (b. [[1730]])
* [[January 13]] – [[John Anderson (natural philosopher)|John Anderson]], Scottish scientist and inventor (b. [[1726]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet]], officer of the British Royal Navy (b. [[1709]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Samuel Pegge]], English antiquary (b. [[1704]])
* [[February 15]] – [[John Caesar]] Australian bushranger of African descent (b. [[1763]])
* [[February 17]] – [[James Macpherson]], Scottish writer (b. [[1736]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Jean-Nicolas Stofflet]], French royalist general (executed) (b. [[1751]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Friedrich Wilhelm Rust]], German violinist (b. [[1739]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz]], Swedish architect and civil servant (b. [[1716]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Pierre-René Rogue]], French Catholic priest, member of the Congregation of the Mission (b. [[1758]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Guillaume Thomas François Raynal]], French writer, man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment (b. [[1713]])
* [[March 10]]
** [[William Chambers (architect)|William Chambers]], Scottish-Swedish architect (b. [[1723]])
** [[John Forbes (Royal Navy officer)|John Forbes]], British Royal Navy officer (b. [[1714]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Franz Töpsl]], Augustinian Canon Regular (b. [[1711]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Joseph Gerrald]], Scottish political reformer (b. [[1763]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Hugh Palliser]], British naval officer, administrator (b. [[1722]])
* [[March 26]] – [[François de Charette]], French Royalist soldier, politician (b. [[1763]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt]] (b. [[1765]])

=== April–June ===
[[File:Ulrica pasch.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ulrika Pasch]]]]
[[File:Portrait of George Campbell.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[George Campbell (minister)|George Campbell]]]]
[[File:Charles_Willson_Peale_-_David_Rittenhouse_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[David Rittenhouse]]]]
[[File:Abraham Yates.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Abraham Yates Jr.]]]]
* [[April 2]] – [[Ulrika Pasch]], Swedish rococo painter and miniaturist (b. [[1735]])
* [[April 6]] – [[George Campbell (minister)|George Campbell]], Scottish minister (b. [[1719]])
* [[April 9]] – [[Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg]], German prince of the House of Ascania (b. [[1735]])
* [[April 11]] – [[François-Antoine Devaux]], French writer (b. [[1712]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Molly Brant]] Mohawk [[United Empire Loyalist]] (b. c.[[1736]])
* [[April 17]] – Raja [[Chamaraja Wodeyar IX]] of Mysore (b. [[1774]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Franciszka Corvin-Krasińska]], Polish noblewoman, morganatic wife of Charles of Saxony (b. [[1742]])
* [[May 1]] – [[Alexandre Guy Pingré]], Catholic priest and scientist (b. [[1711]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Juan García Ruiz]], bishop of Nueva Segovia (1784–1796) (b. [[1728]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Adolph Freiherr Knigge]], German writer, Freemason (b. [[1752]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Johann Uz]], German poet (b. [[1720]])
* [[May 13]] – [[John Butler (pioneer)|John Butler]], Loyalist who led an irregular militia unit during the American Revolutionary War (b. [[1728]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Gotthard Friedrich Stender]], Baltic-German Lutheran priest who played an outstanding role in Latvia's history of culture (b. [[1714]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Caroline of Stolberg-Gedern (1732–1796)|Caroline of Stolberg-Gedern]], Princess of Stolberg-Gerdern by birth and by marriage a princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. [[1732]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Carl Fredrik Pechlin]], Swedish politician and [[demagogue]] (b. [[1720]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Elisabetta Caminèr Turra]], Venetian writer (b. [[1751]])
* [[June 8]]
** [[Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois]], French revolutionary (b. [[1749]])
** [[Felice Giardini]], Italian composer, violinist (b. [[1716]])
* [[June 9]] – [[José Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba]], patron of the artist Francisco Goya (b. [[1756]])
* [[June 11]]
** [[Nathaniel Gorham]], Massachusetts politician, merchant (b. [[1738]])
** [[Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796)|Samuel Whitbread]], English brewer, politician (b. [[1720]])
* [[June 14]]
** [[Charles Albert II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst]], 3rd Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst from 1793 to 1796 (b. [[1742]])
** [[John Laforey]], British naval officer (b. [[1729]])
* [[June 16]]
** [[Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland]], German prince from the House of Wettin and Duke of Courland (b. [[1733]])
** [[Walter Stewart (general)|Walter Stewart]], Irish-born American general during the [[American Revolutionary War]] (b. [[1756]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Consider Tiffany]], British loyalist (b. [[1732]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Richard Gridley]], American Revolutionary soldier (b. [[1710]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Johann Philipp Siebenkees]], German philosopher (b. [[1759]])
* [[June 26]] – [[David Rittenhouse]], American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official (b. [[1732]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Antonio Maria Lorgna]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1735]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Abraham Yates Jr.]], American lawyer, civil servant from Albany (b. [[1724]])

=== July–September ===
[[File:PG 1063Burns Naysmithcrop.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Robert Burns]]]]
* [[July 8]]
** [[John Mills (soldier)|John Mills]], American soldier, officer (b. [[1754]])
** [[Adam Naruszewicz]], Polish-Lithuanian nobleman (b. [[1733]])
* [[July 16]]
** [[William Gerard Hamilton]], English statesman  (b. [[1729]])
** [[George Howard (British Army officer)|George Howard]], British field marshal (b. [[1718]])
* [[July 17]] – [[John Christopher Hartwick]], Lutheran minister in Colonial America, founder of Hartwick College (b. [[1714]])
* [[July 20]] – [[John Houstoun]], American lawyer, statesman from Savannah (b. [[1744]])
* [[July 21]]
** [[Robert Burns]], Scottish poet (b. [[1759]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Robert Burns (1759-1796) |url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-a-z/burns-robert |website=National Records of Scotland |access-date=27 January 2023 |language=English |date=31 May 2013}}</ref>
** [[Philip Carteret]], British naval officer, explorer in two circumnavigation expeditions (b. [[1733]])
* [[August 1]]
** [[Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet]], British Army officer during the American Revolutionary War (b. [[1720]])
** [[Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet]], British army officer (b. [[1720]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Sarah Osborn]], American writer (b. [[1714]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Ignaz Anton von Indermauer]], Austrian nobleman from Tyrol, Landvögte and Kreishauptmann of Vorarlberg (b. [[1759]])
* [[August 12]]
** [[Richard Beckford]], English member of parliament
** [[Mary Ann Wrighten]], English singer, actress (b. [[1751]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Isaac Parsons (Virginia politician)|Isaac Parsons]], American planter (b. [[1752]])
* [[August 31]] – [[John McKinly]], American physician, politician from Wilmington (b. [[1721]])
* [[September 1]] – [[David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield]] (b. [[1727]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Henri François Lambert]], brigadier general of the French revolutionary army (b. [[1760]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Anna Barbara Gignoux]], German industrialist (b. [[1725]])
* [[September 20]]
** [[Juan José Elhuyar]], Spanish chemist, mineralogist (b. [[1754]])
** [[Christian Febiger]], American Revolutionary War commander (b. [[1749]])
* [[September 21]] – [[François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers]], French revolutionary general (killed in battle) (b. [[1769]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Jonathan Sewall]], last British attorney general of Massachusetts (b. [[1729]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Henry Hamilton (governor)|Henry Hamilton]], Anglo-Irish soldier, government official of the British Empire (b. c. [[1734]])

=== October–December ===
[[File:ThomasReid.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Reid]]]]
[[File:11thEarlOfEglinton.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton]]]]
* [[October 7]] – [[Thomas Reid]], religiously trained Scottish philosopher (b. [[1710]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]] (b. [[1729]])
* [[October 16]]
** [[Antoine-Joseph Pernety]], French writer (b. [[1716]])
** [[Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia]] (b. [[1726]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton]], Scottish general (b. [[1726]])
* [[November 8]] – King [[Ang Eng]] of Cambodia (b. [[1773]])
* [[November 17]] – Empress [[Catherine the Great|Catherine II]] of Russia (b. [[1729]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Catherine the Great {{!}} Biography, Facts, & Accomplishments |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 19]] – [[Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath]] (b. [[1734]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Jean Charles Abbatucci]], French general during the War of the First Coalition (b. [[1771]])
* [[December 5]] – [[George Mason V]], American planter, businessman (b. [[1753]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Israel Jacobs]], colonial Pennsylvania Legislator and United States Representative from Pennsylvania (b. [[1726]])
* [[December 12]] – [[William Buller (bishop)|William Buller]], English clergyman (b. [[1735]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Anthony Wayne]], [[United States Army]] officer, statesman, and member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] (b. [[1745]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Johann Daniel Titius]], German astronomer, professor at Wittenberg (b. [[1729]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Lord John Cavendish]], British nobleman, statesman (b. [[1732]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Pyotr Rumyantsev]], Russian general (b. [[1725]])
* [[December 25]]
** [[Bengt Anders Euphrasén]], Swedish botanist (b. [[1756]])
** [[Velu Nachiyar]], Indian queen of Sivaganga estate (1760–1790) (b. [[1730]])
* [[December 28]] – [[Prince Louis Charles of Prussia]], son of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. [[1773]])