and composer (d. 1861) November 13 – Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of The Punjab (Sikh Empire), (d. 1839) December 13 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (d. 1849) December 26 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872) Date unknown James Justinian Morier, British diplomat and novelist (d. 1849) Manuela Medina, Mexican national heroine (d. 1822) Elizabeth Philpot, British paleontologist (d. 1857) Jahonotin Uvaysiy, Uzbek Sufi poet (d. 1845) Deaths January 13 – Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prussian princess (b. 1722) January 15 – Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli, Swiss agronomist (b. 1716) February 10 – Samuel Egerton, British Member of Parliament (b. 1711) February 14 – William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723) February 17 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian, librarian (b. 1706) February 18 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714) March 17 – Elizabeth Butchill, English woman executed for the murder of her newborn child (b. c. 1758) March 26 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1713) April 5 – Ulrika Strömfelt, Swedish courtier (b. 1724) May 18 – Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland (b. c. 1714) May 21 – Thomas Townshend (MP), British politician (b. 1701) June 3 – Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711) July 4 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (b. 1712) July 14 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713) July 18 – Gerhard Schøning, Norwegian historian (b. 1722) July 21 – Louis Legrand, French Sulpician priest and theologian (b. 1711) August 3 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715) August 19 – Johann de Kalb, Bavarian-French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (b. 1721) August 29 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713) September 4 – John Fielding, English magistrate, social reformer (b. 1721) September 6 – Françoise Basseporte, French painter (b. 1701) September 8 Enoch Poor, American Revolutionary general (b. 1736) Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French writer (b. 1711) September 15 – Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, academic, first teacher of deaf-mutes in France (b. 1715) September 19 – James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury, England (b. 1713) September 23 – Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, French salon holder (b. 1697) October 2 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (executed) (b. 1750) October 17 – William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705) November 26 – Sir James