1725) February 3 – Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet, English politician (b. 1719) February 6 – Joseph Priestley, British chemist (b. 1733) February 7 – William Bingham, American Continental congressman, senator for Pennsylvania (b. 1752) February 12 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (b. 1724) March 3 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, painter (b. 1727) March 13 – Damodar Pande, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1752) March 16 – Henrik Gabriel Porthan Finnish writer and historian (b. 1739) March 21 – Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien (executed) (b. 1772) March 30 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718) April 9 – Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732) April 11 – Miklós Küzmics, Hungarian Slovenes writer, Catholic priest (b. 1737) April 15 – Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761) May 25 – Johann Joachim Spalding, German theologian (b. 1714) July–December July 12 – Alexander Hamilton, American statesman and Founding Father (killed in a duel) (b. 1755 or 1757) September 4 – Richard Somers, American naval officer (killed in battle) (b. 1778) September 20 – Pierre Méchain, French astronomer (b. 1744) October 2 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725) October 8 – Thomas Cochran (judge), Canadian judge (b. 1777) October 29 – Sarah Crosby, the first female Methodist preacher (b. 1729) November 1 – Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (b. 1748) November 5 – Maria Anna Adamberger, Austrian actress (b. 1752) November 18 – Philip Schuyler, general in the American Revolution, a United States senator from New York, father of Angelica Schuyler Church and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, father-in-law of Alexander Hamilton (b. 1733) November 23 – Richard Graves, English writer (b. 1715) December 18 – Jacob ben Wolf Kranz, Lithuanian maggid (b. c. 1740) December 25 – Contarina Barbarigo, famous Venetian noble. References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar