March 22 – Justin Morgan, American horse breeder and composer (b. 1747) March 25 – General Michel Joachim Marie Raymond, French leader of the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad (poisoned) (b. 1755) April – Gideon Morris, trans-Appalachian pioneer (b. 1756) April 11 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725) April 12 – Madeleine de Puisieux, French writer, active feminist (b. 1720) April 14 – Henry Mowat, Scottish-born British Royal Navy officer (b. 1734) April 29 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723) May 10 – George Vancouver, British Royal Navy officer, explorer (Vancouver, Canada is named after him) (b. 1757) May 19 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722) June – Betsy Gray, Irish rebel heroine June 4 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer, writer (b. 1725) June 21 – John Kelly of Killanne, Irish republican June 25 – Thomas Sandby, English cartographer, architect (b. 1721) June 29 – Catharina Mulder, Dutch organist (d. 1723) July 17 – Henry Joy McCracken, Irish republican July 21 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733) August 1 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753) August 11 – Joshua Clayton, American politician (b. 1744) August 18 – John Lewis Gervais, American revolutionary and politician (b. 1741) August 21 – James Wilson, American politician (b. 1742) August 24 – Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709) August 25 – Mikiel'Ang Grima, Maltese surgeon (b. 1731) September 21 – George Read, American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733) November 5 – John Zephaniah Holwell, British surgeon (b. 1711) November 15 – Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1716) November 19 – Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b. 1737) November 21 – Gabriel Lenkiewicz, Belarusian Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1722) December 4 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1737) December 16 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (b. 1726) References