Famous Deaths in 1793

Louis XVI

Jan 21 Louis XVI, French King (1774-93), beheaded during the French Revolution at 38

Feb 1 William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717)
Feb 2 William Aiton, English botanist (Kew Gardens), dies at 61
Feb 6 Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright and librettist (Belisario, Servant of Two Masters), dies at 85
Mar 2 Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist
Mar 4 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
Mar 20 William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)
Mar 21 Johann Michael Schmidt, composer, dies at 51
Mar 26 John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)
Apr 9 Ernestus Weinrauch, composer, dies at 62
Apr 13 Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
Apr 15 Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
Apr 21 John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
Apr 29 Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist, dies at 79

Apr 29 John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
Apr 30 Lorenzo Fago, Italian composer and teacher, dies at 88
May 7 Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68
May 7 Pietro Nardini, Italian composer, dies at 71
May 13 Martin Gerbert, German composer, music historian and abbot, dies at 72
May 20 Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer, dies at 73
Jun 4 Jan Ekels de Young, Dutch painter, dies at 34
Jun 16 Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies
Jun 26 Gilbert White, English naturalist (Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn), dies at 72

Jean-Paul Marat

Jul 13 Jean-Paul Marat, French journalist and revolutionary (Friend of the People periodical), is murdered by Charlotte Corday in a bath at 50

Jul 14 Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44
Jul 17 Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary who murdered Jean-Paul Marat in a bath, is guillotined at 24
Jul 21 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)

Roger Sherman

Jul 23 Roger Sherman, American lawyer and Founding Father of the United States (Declaration of Independence), dies of typhoid fever at 72

Aug 22 Louis de Noailles, Marshal of France, dies at 80
Aug 28 Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies
Oct 7 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, British politician, dies at 75

John Hancock

Oct 8 John Hancock, American merchant and statesman who was 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence, dies at 56

Oct 9 Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)

Marie Antoinette

Oct 16 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1774-92) who allegedly uttered the phrase "let them eat cake", beheaded at 37

Oct 16 John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and founder of pathological anatomy in England, dies at 65
Oct 19 Francesc Morera i Cots, Valencian composer, dies at 62
Oct 21 Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
Oct 31 Pierre-Victurnien Vergniaud, French politician and police leader, guillotined at 40

Olympe de Gouges

Nov 3 Olympe de Gouges [Marie Gouze], French playwright and revolutionary (Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen), executed by guillotine at 45

Nov 6 Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, dies at 46
Nov 8 Madame Roland [Marie-Jeanne Phlippon], French revolutionary (member of the Girondist faction), executed by guillotine at 39
Nov 24 Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
Dec 6 Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded
Dec 7 Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
Dec 9 Yolande de Polastron, Duchess de Polignac, French aristocrat, dies at 44
Dec 13 Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, dies at 63
Dec 20 Joseph Legros, French singer and composer who was the most prominent haute-contres of his generation, dies at 54
Dec 23 Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
Dec 23 Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
Dec 28 Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75

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