Editing 1796 (section)

=== 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]])