Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 18 – Ippolit Bogdanovich (born 1743), Russian classicist author of light poetry, best known for his long poem Dushenka
- February 9 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (born 1716)
- February 18 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (born 1719), German poet
- March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (born 1724), German poet
- June 22 – Wilhelm Heinse (born 1746), German author and poet
- August 18 – James Beattie (born 1735), Scottish scholar, writer and poet
- August 25 – Johann Gottfried Herder (born 1744), German philosopher, poet, and literary critic
- September 23 – Joseph Ritson (born 1752), English antiquary and anthologist
- Also:
- Erika Leibman (born 1738), Swedish poet and academic
- William Smith (born 1727), American educator, theologian, poet and historian
Read more about this topic: 1803 In Poetry
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