(b. 1743) March 29 – Helena Dorothea von Schönberg, German industrialist (b. 1729) April 3 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (b. 1715) April 6 – Alexander Bezborodko, Grand Chancellor of Russia, architect of Catherine the Great's foreign policy (b. 1747) April 28 – Matthew Griswold (governor), 17th Governor of Connecticut (1784–1786) (b. 1714) May 2 – Guemes Padilla Horcasitas, the Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1740) May 4 – Tipu Sultan, Sultan of Mysore (b. 1750) May 18 – Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer (b. 1732) May 22 – Toypurina, Medicine woman of the Tongva nation and rebel leader (b. 1750) May 26 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish jurist (b. 1714) May 30 – Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, Scottish advocate and judge (b. 1722) June 6 – Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician, Governor of Virginia (b. 1736) June 10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Guadeloupe-born French musician (b. 1745) June 24 – Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish peer (b. 1722) June 30 – Francesco Caracciolo, Neapolitan admiral, revolutionist (b. 1752) July–December July 7 – William Curtis, English botanist, entomologist (b. 1746) August 2 – Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor of the hot-air balloon, balloonist (b. 1744) August 4 – John Bacon, British sculptor (b. 1740) August 5 – Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726) August 15 – Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, French general (b. 1769) August 29 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717) August 31 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720) September 7 Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, biologist, and chemist (b. 1730) Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717) October 6 – William Withering, British physician (b. 1741) October 9 – Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, French priest who helped to establish the Nguyễn dynasty (b. 1741) October 20 – James Iredell, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1751) October 24 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739) November 22 – Judith van Dorth, Dutch orangist (b. 1747) November 23 – Mark Robinson (Royal Navy officer), Royal Navy admiral (b. 1722) December 6 – Joseph Black, Scottish physician, physicist, and chemist (b. 1728) December 14 – George Washington, military leader of the American Revolution, president of the Constitutional Convention (1787), and the 1st President of the United States (b. 1732) December 18 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725) December 31 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian, writer (b. 1723) References