of Sulzbach, politically active Electress of Bavaria (b. 1721) September 1 – Catherine Théot, French visionary (b. 1716) September 4 – John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724) September 15 – Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725) September 16 – Hester Bateman, English silversmith (bap. 1708) September 25 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718) October 21 Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang (b. 1740) Antoine Petit, French physician (b. 1722) November 3 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal, statesman (b. 1715) November 9 – Thomas Walker, distinguished Virginia physician, explorer (b. 1715) November 15 Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, German aristocrat (b. 1724) John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723) November 22 John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724) Alison Cockburn, British poet (b. 1712) November 28 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730) Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet, English politician (b. 1736) December 2 – Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, German physician (b. 1715) December 12 – Meshullam Feivush Heller, Austrian Hasidic author (b. c. 1742) December 16 – Jean-Baptiste Carrier, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1756) References