Deaths
- January 4 - Charlotte Lennox, English novelist & playwright
- January 11 - James Tytler, editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- February 6 - Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (born 1733)
- February 12 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (born 1724)
- April 3 - Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish historian and diarist (born c.1727)
- April 27 - Jonathan Boucher, philologist
- May 3 - Celestyn Czaplic, Polish poet and politician
- November 5 - Betje Wolff, Dutch novelist (born 1738)
- November 23 - Richard Graves, poet and novelist
- December 9 - Wilhelm Abraham Teller, theologian
- December - John Boydell, publisher
- date unknown
- Samuel Ayscough, librarian and indexer (born 1745)
- Jean-Louis de Lolme, Swiss political theorist (born 1741)
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