12 – Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius, French salon holder (b. 1722) August 16 – Samuel Barrington, English admiral (b. 1729) August 25 – Elizabeth Montagu, English literary critic (b. 1718) August 31 – John Blair, American politician (b. 1732) September 2 – Maciej Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (b. 1749) September 3 –Elżbieta Branicka, Polish szlachta and politician (b. 1734) September 10 – Johann David Schoepff, German naturalist, doctor (b. 1752) September 23 – Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1712) September 26 – William Billings, American choral composer (b. 1746) September 27 – William Gibbons, American lawyer, revolutionary (b. 1726) October 4 – Johann Hermann, German physician, naturalist (b. 1738) October 10 – Gabriel Prosser, American slave revolutionary (b. approx. 1776) October 16 – Benjamin Huntington, American lawyer, politician (b. 1736) October 28 – Artemas Ward, American Major General in the American Revolutionary War, Congressman from Massachusetts (b. 1727) November 5 – Jesse Ramsden, English astronomical instrument maker (b. 1735) November 14 – François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, French general (b. 1739) November 25 – Francisco Bouligny, former military governor of Spanish Louisiana (b. 1736) November 30 – Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, English eccentric nobleman (b. 1712) December – Jean-Baptiste Audebert, French artist, naturalist (b. 1759) December 7 – Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Hessian Lieutenant-General (b. 1716) December 27 – Hugh Blair, Scottish Presbyterian preacher, man of letters (b. 1718) December 30 – Thomas Dimsdale, English physician, banker (b. 1712) References