Lombe Atthill, Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist (d. 1910) December 17 – Baron Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Governor of the Duchy of Bucovina, member of the Herrenhaus (d. 1893) December 23 – Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral (d. 1871) December 27 – Stanisław Mieroszewski, Polish-born politician, writer, historian and member of the Imperial Council of Austria (d. 1900) Deaths January–June January 5 – Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, heir-presumptive to the British throne (b. 1763) January 19 – Ludwig von Brauchitsch, Prussian general (b. 1757) February 13 – Caleb Brewster, Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (b. 1747) February 19 – Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, French general, diplomat (b. 1773) February 23 – Felipe Enrique Neri, Texas legislator, colonizer (b. 1759) February 17 – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (b. 1746) February 28 – Thomas Holloway, English portrait painter, engraver (b. 1748) March 5 Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749) Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745) March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770) March 31 – Marie Barch, Danish ballerina (b. 1744) April 12 – Michele Troja, Italian physician (b. 1747) April 29 Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (b. 1760) Rufus King, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat (b. 1755) May 5 – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750) May 27 – Melesina Trench, Irish-born writer, socialite (b. 1768) June 26 – Samuel Crompton, English inventor (b. 1753) July–December July 14 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788) July 27 – Fredrique Eleonore Baptiste, Finnish actress and playwright August 8 – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770) August 12 – William Blake, English poet, artist (b. 1757) September 10 – Ugo Foscolo, Greek-born Italian writer, revolutionary and poet (b. 1778) October 12 – John Eager Howard, American politician (b. 1752) November 7 – Maria Theresia of Tuscany, Queen of Saxony (b. 1767) November 10 – St. George Tucker, United States federal judge (b. 1752) December 3 – Servando Teresa de Mier, Mexican preacher (b. 1765) December 21 – Anton II, Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia (b. 1762) References