Deaths
- January 1 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
- January 4 – Thomas Nelson, Jr., American signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Virginia (1781), (b. 1738)
- January 8 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703)
- January 10 – James Mitchell Varnum, American brigadier general of the Revolutionary War and Continental Congressman for Rhode Island (b. 1748)
- January 13 – Joseph Spencer, American major general of the Revolutionary War and Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1714)
- January 23 – Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
- January 25 – James Randolph Reid, American Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1750)
- February 12 – Ethan Allen, American major general of the Revolutionary War and Vermont statesman (b. 1738)
- February 19 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)
- April 7
- Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
- Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722)
- April 13 – Joseph Spencer, American colonel of the Revolutionary War and Continental Congressman for New Hampshire (b. 1739)
- April 17 – Angélique du Coudray, French pioneer of modern midwifery (b. 1712)
- April 26 – Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
- May 9 – Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (b. 1715)
- May 25 – Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
- June 4 – Prince Louis-Joseph of France, son of Louis XVI of France (tuberculosis) (b. 1781)
- July 13 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
- July 14 – Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
- July 15 – Jacques Duphly, French composer (b. 1715)
- July 21 – Joseph Spencer, American Continental Congressman for Maryland (c. 1750)
- July 22 – Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (executed) (b. 1715)
- July 30 – Giovanna Bonanno, Italian poisoner and alleged witch
- September 4 – Paul Spooner, American lieutenant governor of Vermont (1782–1787) (b. 1746)
- September 23
- John Rogers, American Continental Congressman for Maryland (b. 1723)
- Silas Deane, American Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1737)
- October 27 – John Cook, American farmer and President of Delaware (b. 1730)
- November 10 – Richard Caswell, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina (1776–1780, 1785–1787) (b. 1729)
- November 17 – Samuel Holden Parsons, American major general of the Revolutionary War and member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (b. 1737)
- December 3 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
- December 10 – William Pierce, American member of the Georgia House of Representatives and Continental Congressman for Georgia (c. 1753)
- December 12 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
- December 23 – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of signed French (b. 1712)
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