Deaths
- February 9 - Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (born 1732)
- August 31 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (born 1729)
- September 8 - Peter Simon Pallas, German-born naturalist (born 1741)
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