Deaths
- 12 May - George Vancouver, explorer (b. 1757)
- 19 May - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, dueler (b. 1722)
- 19 June - William Jennens, financier, richest commoner in England (b. 1701)
- 25 June - Thomas Sandby, cartographer and architect (b. 1721)
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“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
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they waste their deaths on us.”
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