Leopold II (1747-1792)
Mar 1 Grand Duke of Tuscany (1765-90) and Holy Roman Emperor (1790-92), dies at 44
Gustav III (1746-1792)
Mar 29 King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of septicemia at 46 after being shot by an assassin thirteen days earlier
Tiradentes (1746-1792)
Apr 21 Brazilian revolutionary and independence fighter (Inconfidência Mineira) considered a national hero, hanged, drawn and quartered in Rio de Janeiro at 45
- Apr 23 Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer, dies at 50
- Apr 25 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, German composer, dies at 54
- Apr 25 Nicolas J Pelletier, French highwayman, 1st person guillotined
- Apr 30 Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer and lawyer, dies at 36
- Apr 30 John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, British statesman who claimed to have invented the sandwich, dies at 73
- May 3 Carlo Zuccari, Italian composer and violinist, dies at 87
- May 7 Aert Schouman, Dutch bird and portrait painter, dies at 82
- May 10 John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
- May 12 Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist, dies at 81
- May 24 George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies
- May 24 Jacob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Baltic German poet and dramatist (The Soldiers), dies at 41
- Jun 4 John Burgoyne, British general (surrendered at Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War), dies at 70
- Jun 16 Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
- Jun 25 Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)
- Jun 30 Francesco Antonio Rosetti, Bohemian composer, dies
- Jul 6 Maria Louisa of Spain, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire, dies at 46
- Jul 18 John Paul Jones, Scottish-American naval captain and the United States first well-known naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight"), dies of kidney failure and pneumonia at 45
- Jul 29 René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
- Aug 2 Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, German composer (Kantor at Gera), dies at 60
Richard Arkwright (1732-1792)
Aug 3 English industrialist and inventor (created the spinning frame, built Cromford Mill), dies at 59
Frederick North (1732-1792)
Aug 5 Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain (Tory: 1770-82), "who lost America", dies at 60
- Aug 17 Jan Jachym Kopriva, Czech composer and organist, dies at 38
- Aug 25 Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
- Sep 3 Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat, dies at 42
- Sep 18 Gottlieb August Spangenberg, German theologist and missionary (organized Moravian Church in North America), dies at 88
- Sep 25 Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman, dies at 81
George Mason (1725-1792)
Oct 7 American statesman (advocated for the Bill of Rights), dies of natural causes at 66
- Oct 22 Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer, dies at 67
- Oct 28 John Smeaton, British civil engineer, dies at 68
- Oct 28 Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist, died at 82
- Nov 30 Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
- Dec 15 Joseph Martin Kraus 'the Swedish Mozart', German born Swedish composer, dies at 36