1762) February 26 – John Cleves Symmes, American statesman (b. 1742) February 27 – Margaret Bingham British countess, painter and writer (b. 1740) March 6 – Angelica Schuyler Church, daughter of Genl.Philip Schuyler, sister to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (b. 1756) March 18 – Vincent Abbadie, French surgeon (b. 1737) March 26 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (b. 1738) April 1 – Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (b. 1726) April 12 – Charles Burney, English music historian (b. 1726) April 19 – Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury, England (b. 1729) May 2 Thomas Coke, first American Methodist Bishop (b. 1747) Alexander Hood, British naval officer (b. 1726) May 5 – Abdullah I Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1740) May 6 Stephen Amherst, English cricketer (b. 1750) Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer (b. 1749) May 27 – Ivan Akimov, Russian painter (b. 1754) May 29 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763) June 14 – Antin Angelovych, Greek-Catholic metropolitan (b. 1756) June 27 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, German composer (b. 1752) July–December July 12 – William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, British general (b. 1729) July 18 – Miles Peter Andrews, English playwright, legislator (b. 1742) July 19 – Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia (b. 1774) July 25 – Charles Dibdin, English composer (b. 1745) August 21 Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (b. 1748) Benjamin Thompson, American physicist, inventor (b. 1753) August 28 – Erik Must Angell, Norwegian jurist, politician (b. 1744) August 31 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral, 1st Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738) September 8 – Maria Carolina of Austria, queen of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, and de facto ruler (b. 1752) September 22 – August Wilhelm Iffland, German actor (b. 1759) October 1 – Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, French entomologist (b. 1756) October 4 – Samuel Jackson Pratt, English writer, poet and actor (b. 1749) October 19 – Mercy Otis Warren, American playwright (b. 1728) November 18 – Aleijadinho, Colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect (b. 1730 or 1738) November 23 – Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (b. 1744) December 2 – Marquis de Sade, French writer for whom sadism is named (b. 1740) December 13 – Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1735) December 19 – Joseph Bramah, English inventor of the hydraulic press (b. 1748) December 26 – Nicolas-François Guillard,