1783 - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 7 – William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
  • February 6 – Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
  • March 23 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
  • March 30 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
  • March 31 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
  • April 16
    • Benedict Joseph Labre, French saint (b. 1745)
    • Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
  • May 23 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
  • September 18
    • Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)
    • Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
  • October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
  • November – Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (b. 1741 )
  • November 22 – John Hanson, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1715)
  • November 23 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
  • December 13 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
  • December 16 – William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)

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