Samuel Nelson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1873) November 11 – Mary Anne Evans, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872) November 28 – Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867) December 1 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856) December 5 – Andrés de Santa Cruz, Peruvian military officer, seventh President of Peru and President of Bolivia (d. 1865) December 6 – William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849) date unknown – Nodira, Uzbek poet and stateswoman (d. 1842) Deaths January–June January 17 – George Horne, British academic and Bishop of Norwich (b.1730) February 15 – John Witherspoon, Scottish American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723) February 23 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723) March 1 Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747) Jean Godin des Odonais, French cartographer and naturalist (b. 1713) March 1 – Angelo Emo, Venetian admiral and statesman (b. 1731) March 3 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect and designer (b. 1728) March 10 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713) March 23 – Luís António Verney, Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (b. 1713) March 29 – King Gustav III of Sweden (assassinated) (b. 1746) April 3 – Sir George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706) April 4 – James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725) April 14 – Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720) April 20 – Matthias von Schoenberg, Catholic author (b. 1732) April 23 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian, adventurer (b. 1741) April 30 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (b. 1718) May 10 – John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress May 12 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710) May 24 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (b. 1718) June 4 – John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723) June 22 – Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Arabian Wahhabi preacher (b. 1703) July–December July 3 – Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1721) July 18 – John Paul Jones, American naval captain (b. 1747) July 29 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714) August 3 – Richard Arkwright, English inventor (b. 1732) August 5 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1732) September 3 – Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, French princess, courtier to Marie Antoinette (murdered during the