French Revolution) (b. 1749) September 8 – Charles d'Abancour, French statesman (b. 1758) September 16 – Nguyễn Huệ, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1753) September 18 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704) September 25 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710) September 29 – George Browne, Russian-Irish field-marshal (b. 1698) October 7 – George Mason, American patriot (b. 1725) October 14 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1714) October 21 – Anders Rudolf du Rietz, Swedish general, count and politician (b. 1722) October 22 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725) October 28 Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710) John Smeaton, English civil engineer (b. 1724) November – Samuel Hearne, English explorer, fur-trader, author and naturalist (b. 1745) December 7 – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (Laboras de Mezières), French novelist (b. 1714) December 8 – Henry Laurens, political leader during the American Revolutionary War, father of John Laurens (b. 1724) December 15 Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (b. 1756) Hugh Pigot, British Royal Navy admiral (b. 1722) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar