Deaths
- 16 January - John Moore, British general (killed in battle) (born 1761)
- 20 February - Richard Gough, antiquary (born 1735)
- 25 February - John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (born 1730)
- 11 March - Hannah Cowley, dramatist, poet and social reformer (born 1743)
- 25 March - Anna Seward, writer (born 1747)
- April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven, 59 (born 1749)
- 13 May - Beilby Porteus, bishop and abolitionist (born 1731)
- 21 June - Daniel Lambert, the fattest man in Britain, weighing 52 stones 11 pounds, died in Stamford, Lincolnshire (born 1770)
- 18 August - Matthew Boulton, manufacturer and engineer (born 1728)
- 8 October - James Elphinston, philologist (born 1721)
- 30 October - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1738)
- 9 November - Paul Sandby, cartographer and painter (born 1725)
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