1796 - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 13 – John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
  • February 23 – Jean-Nicolas Stofflet, French royalist general (executed) (b. 1751)
  • March 6 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
  • March 19 – Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
  • May 12 – Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720)
  • May 29 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
  • June 6 – Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French revolutionary (b. 1749)
  • June 11 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
  • June 21 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
  • June 26 – David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. (b. 1732)
  • June 30 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
  • July 16 – George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
  • July 21 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
  • August 1 – Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
  • August 21 – John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
  • September 21 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French revolutionary general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)
  • October 7 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
  • November 6 – Catherine the Great of Russia (b. 1729)

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