Famous People Who Died in 1794

Jan 8 Justus Möser, German statesman and writer, dies at 73
Jan 10 Georg Forster, German writer, naturalist (A Voyage Round the World) and revolutionary, dies at 39

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Jan 16 English historian (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), dies in London at 56

Jan 31 Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral and naval commander during the American War for Independence, dies at 82 or 83
Mar 4 Henri de La Rochejacquelin, French Royalist Army leader, dies at 21

Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794)

Mar 28 Marquis de Condorcet, French enlightenment philosopher (Condorcet Method) and mathematician, is murdered or commits suicide in prison at 50

Apr 5 Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, pamphleteer and revolutionary leader (his oratory led to storming of the Bastille), guillotined at 34

Georges Danton (1759-1794)

Apr 5 French politician and revolutionary (1st president of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution), executed by guillotine at 34

Apr 13 Nicolas Chamfort, French writer, dies at 53
Apr 18 Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, dies at 80
Apr 23 Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French lawyer and statesman, executed at 72
Apr 27 William Jones, British orientalist & jurist, dies at 47
May 6 Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French composer, dies at 59
May 8 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry (identified oxygen and hydrogen), guillotined at 50
May 10 Élisabeth of France, princess of France, youngest sister of king Louis XVI, beheaded at 30
Jun 8 G A Borger, writer, dies
Jun 14 Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland, dies at 75
Jun 18 James Murray, British military officer and administrator (Governor of Quebec 1860-68), dies at 73
Jun 19 Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 62
Jun 20 Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (discover the theory of homology in biology), dies at 46
Jun 27 Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
Jun 27 Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
Jul 2 Franz Xaver Pokorny, Czech composer, dies at 64
Jul 7 Pascal Boyer, French composer, dies at 51
Jul 17 Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French composer, executed by guillotine after false charges of treason during French Revolution at 45 [1]
Jul 17 John Roebuck, English inventor and industrialist (b. 1718)
Jul 22 Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, French composer, dies at 59
Jul 25 André Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), executed by guillotine during French Revolution at 31
Jul 28 Georges Couthon, French politician and lawyer during French Revolution (worked closely with Robespierre in Legislative Assembly), guillotined at 39

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794)

Jul 28 French revolutionary (President of the National Convention, Member of Committee of Public Safety), executed by guillotine at 36

Aug 6 Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
Aug 11 Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, German composer, dies at 72
Aug 14 George Colman the Elder, English playwright, dies at 62
Sep 4 John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
Sep 15 Abraham Clark, American patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 68
Sep 25 Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
Oct 12 James Lyon, American composer, dies at 59
Oct 20 James Adam, Scottish architect and furniture designer, (partnership with brother Robert Adam), dies at about 64
Nov 3 François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman, dies at 79
Nov 14 Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch scientist and mathematician (known as "Dutch Isaac Newton"), dies at 30