Famous Deaths for Year 1792

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Deaths 1 - 40 of 40

Jan 10th - Jean-Louis Laruette, composer, dies at 60
Feb 23rd - Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68
Mar 1st - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
Mar 3rd - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63
Mar 10th - John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78
Mar 29th - Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
Apr 3rd - George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
Apr 4th - James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)
Apr 14th - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720)
Apr 21st - Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
Apr 23rd - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
Apr 25th - Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer, dies at 54
Apr 25th - Nicolas J Pelletier, French highwayman, 1st person guillotined
Apr 30th - Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer, dies at 36
Apr 30th - John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister, dies at 73
May 3rd - Carlo Zuccari, composer, dies at 87
May 7th - Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82
May 10th - John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
May 12th - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
May 24th - George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies
May 24th - Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies
Jun 4th - John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies
Jun 16th - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
Jun 25th - Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)
Jun 30th - Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer, dies
Jul 18th - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
Jul 29th - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
Aug 2nd - Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer, dies at 60
Aug 3rd - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
Aug 5th - Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60
Aug 17th - Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer, dies at 38
Aug 25th - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
Sep 18th - Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies
Sep 25th - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
Oct 7th - George Mason, American statesman (b. 1725)
Oct 22nd - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
Oct 28th - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
Oct 28th - John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
Nov 30th - Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
Dec 15th - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36


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