member of the United Irishmen (executed) (b. 1766) October 17 – Jean-François Hubert, bishop of Quebec (b. 1739) October 20 – William Cooke, English cleric, academic (b. 1711) November 14 – Ivan Shuvalov, founder of Moscow University (b. 1727) November 16 – King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744) November 18 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder, merchant (b. 1719) November 26 – Andrew Adams, American lawyer (b. 1736) November 27 – Johann Baptist Wendling, Alsatian-born flute player, composer of the Mannheim School (b. 1723) November 29 – Samuel Langdon, American Congregational clergyman, President of Harvard University (b. 1723) December 1 – Oliver Wolcott, American politician (b. 1726) December 11 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722) December 13 – Louis Legendre, French politician of the Revolution period (b. 1752) December 23 Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1732) Solomon Southwick, Newport, Rhode Island printer, newspaper publisher (b. 1731) December 26 – John Wilkes, English radical (b. 1725) December 30 – David Martin, British painter, engraver (b. 1737) date unknown – Wang Zhenyi, Chinese astronomer References