Samuel Hood
Jan 27 Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood/admiral, dies at 92
Samuel Hood
- Jan 30 Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74
- Feb 4 Meingosus Gaelle, composer, dies at 63
- Feb 6 Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
- Feb 10 Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer, dies at 74
- Feb 22 Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92
- Mar 18 Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer, dies at 67
- Mar 19 Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
- Mar 23 Ignaz Vitzthumb, Austrian musician, composer, and conductor, dies at 91
- Apr 28 Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
- May 28 Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord
- May 29 Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies
- Jun 5 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
- Jun 6 Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51
- Jun 12 Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
- Jul 3 Dorothy Jordan, Irish-English actress, courtesan, mistress of future King William IV of the United Kingdom, dies at 65
- Jul 6 Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67
- Jul 7 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (The Rivals, The School for Scandal) and Whig MP, dies at 64
- Jul 14 Francisco de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter, dies at 66
- Jul 20 Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
- Jul 23 Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
- Aug 6 Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80
- Aug 7 Dionysius Godefridus van der Keessel, Dutch jurist (Theses Selectae, Select Theses on the Laws of Holland and Zeeland), dies at 77
- Aug 8 Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65
- Aug 9 Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
- Oct 30 Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
- Nov 6 Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
- Dec 15 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44
- Dec 16 Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer, dies at 73