- Jan 8 Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies
John Dickinson
Feb 14 John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, dies at 75
John Dickinson
- Mar 3 Johann Christian Fabricius, Danish Entomologist, dies at 63
- Mar 9 Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
- Mar 13 King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
- Apr 25 Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 66
- May 5 Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist, dies at 50
- May 18 Jacob Albright, German-American Christian leader, founder of Albright's People (Evangelical Association), dies at 49
- May 18 Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor (b. 1738?)
- May 28 Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)
- Jun 11 Giovanni Battista Cirri, Italian cellist and composer, dies at 83
- Jun 16 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
- Jul 20 François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, French composer, dies at 66
- Jul 29 Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies
- Aug 13 Henri Hardouin, French composer, dies at 81
- Aug 30 Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83
- Sep 3 John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
- Sep 5 John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
- Sep 6 Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
- Sep 13 Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer, dies at 90
- Sep 17 Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
- Sep 25 Richard Porson, scholar, dies
- Sep 26 Pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51
- Sep 27 Gaétan Vestris, French ballet dancer, dies at 79
- Nov 10 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and administrator (Governor of Quebec 1768-1778), dies at 84
- Nov 16 Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29
- Nov 17 David Zeisberger, Moravian clergyman and missionary, dies at 87
- Nov 17 Mustafa IV, 29th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1807-08), dies at 29
- Dec 1 Anton Fischer, composer, dies at 30