French naturalist (b. 1723) June 30 – Charles Dickinson, American attorney, famous duelist (killed in a duel by Andrew Jackson) (b. 1780) July–December July 4 – Charles Henri Sanson, Royal Executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI (b. 1739) July 10 – George Stubbs, English painter (b. 1724) July 11 – James Smith, American signer of the United States Declaration of Independence July 17 – Sir Richard Sullivan, 1st Baronet, British politician (b. 1752) August 10 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737) August 22 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (b. 1742) August 23 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736) September 9 – William Paterson, signer of the United States Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745) September 13 – Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749) September 30 – William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont, Irish politician (b. 1722) October 9 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer, surveyor (b. 1731) October 10 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (killed in battle) (b. 1772) October 23 – Timothy Dexter, American businessman (b. 1748) October 25 – Henry Knox, Secretary of War under George Washington (b. 1750) October 26 – John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752) November 10 – Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (b. 1735) November 23 – Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719) December 9 – Josef Georg Hörl, Austrian politician (b. 1722) December 22 – William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719) December 26 – Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, French dramatist (b. 1717) Date unknown Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (b. 1771) Johann Gottfried Arnold, German cellist (b. 1773) References