1752) February 21 – Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen regnant (b. 1778) February 26 – Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, German painter (b. 1751) March 2 – Karl Gottfried Hagen, German chemist (b. 1749) March 5 – John Adams, last surviving Bounty mutineer (b. 1767) March 8 – Francesco Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Cerveteri (b. 1752) March 30 – Christopher Frederik Lowzow, Danish-Norwegian army officer (b. 1752) April 6 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802) April 18 – Veronika Gut, Swiss rebel heroine (b. 1757) May 10 – Thomas Young, English physician, linguist (b. 1773) May 17 – John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) May 21 – Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1755) May 29 – Humphry Davy, British chemist (b. 1778) May 30 – Louis Aloysius, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein (b. 1765) June 6 – Shanawdithit, last known pure-blooded member of the Beothuk people (b. c. 1801) June 15 – Therese Huber, German writer and scholar (b. 1764) June 27 – James Smithson, British mineralogist, chemist, whose fortune eventually went to the United States of America, and was used to initially fund the Smithsonian Institution (b. 1764) July–December July 11 – Hannah Mather Crocker, American essayist, advocate of women's rights in America (b. 1752) July 23 – Wojciech Bogusławski, actor and director, Father of Polish Theatre (b. 1757) August 7 – John Reeves, British judge (b. 1752) October 10 – Maria Elizabetha Jacson, British botanist (b. 1755) October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart ("Nannerl"), Austrian musician and composer, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751) November 12 – Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French painter (b. 1754) November 14 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French chemist, discoverer of beryllium and chromium (b. 1763) November 26 – Bushrod Washington, American Supreme Court justice (b. 1762) December 12 – John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (disappeared) (b. 1754) December 28 Elizabeth Freeman, African American slave Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744) Bill Richmond, British boxer (b. 1763) December 29 – Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (b. 1797) (scarlet fever) date unknown – Huang Lü, Chinese scientist References