Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795)
Jan 3 English pottery designer and manufacturer (Wedgwood), dies at 64
- Jan 13 Frans Krafft, Belgian composer and organist (Ghent Cathedral), dies at 73
- Jan 19 Maria Teresa Agnesi, Italian harpsichodist, singer, and composer, dies at 74
- Jan 21 Samuel Wallis, English explorer (Wallis Island), dies at 66
- Jan 26 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer and 5th son of Johann Sebastian Bach, dies at 62
- Feb 1 Giacomo Insanguine, Italian organist & composer, dies at 66
- Feb 27 Francis Marion, American military officer, sometimes known as "the Swamp Fox", (pioneered guerrilla warfare during the American Revolutionary War), died around the age of 63
- Mar 4 John Collins, American politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (1786-90), dies at 77
- Mar 5 Josef Reicha, Czech composer, dies at 42
- Mar 21 Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
- Apr 12 Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general, dies at 84
- Apr 12 Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian librettist and poet, dies at 80
- Apr 30 Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
- May 19 James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson and diarist, dies at 54
- May 19 Josiah Bartlett, American physician and statesman (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 65
- May 20 Ignác Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded
- Jun 1 Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
- Jun 8 Louis XVII Charles, King of France (1793-95), dies at 10
- Jul 3 Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
- Jul 3 Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
- Jul 6 Georg Gottfried Petri, German composer, dies at 79
- Jul 9 Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
- Jul 31 Basílio da Gama, Portuguese poet (O Uraguai), dies at 54
- Aug 4 Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
- Aug 19 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer, dies at 67
- Aug 26 Alessandro Cagliostro [Giuseppe Balsamo], Italian adventurer and magician (Prince of Quacks), dies while serving a life imprisonment for being a freemason in Castel Sant'Angelo at 52
- Aug 31 François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess champion, dies at 68
- Oct 1 Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70
- Oct 3 Tula, leader of Curacaose slave uprising, executed
- Oct 7 Johann Georg von Zimmermann, Swiss philosophical author and physician, dies at 66
- Oct 8 Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer, dies at 70
- Oct 10 Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian, dies at 81
- Oct 13 William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier ("Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes"), dies at 69
- Nov 6 Jiří Antonín Benda, Czech composer and violinist, dies at 73
- Nov 15 Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
- Nov 19 Thomas Linley the elder, English musician and tenor, dies at 62
- Dec 23 Henry Clinton, British army officer and politician, dies at 65
- Dec 28 Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)
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