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- January 4 – Charlotte Lennox, English novelist and playwright (born c. 1730)
- January 11 – James Tytler, Scottish American editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1745)
- February 6 – Joseph Priestley, English natural philosopher and theologian (born 1733)
- February 12 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (born 1724)
- February 19 – Philip Yorke, Welsh antiquary and genealogist (born 1743)
- April 3 – Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish historian and diarist (born c. 1727)
- April 27 – Jonathan Boucher, English philologist (born 1738)
- May 3 – Celestyn Czaplic, Polish poet and politician (born 1723)
- July 16 – Jean-Louis de Lolme, Swiss political theorist (born 1741)
- August 9 – Robert Potter, English translator, poet and cleric (born 1721)
- August 13 – Anica Bošković, Ragusan writer (born 1714)
- October 30 – Samuel Ayscough, English librarian and indexer (born 1745)[8]
- November 5 – Betje Wolff, Dutch novelist (born 1738)
- November 23 – Richard Graves, English poet and novelist (born 1715)
- December 9 – Wilhelm Abraham Teller, German theologian (born 1734)
- December – John Boydell, English Shakespeare illustrator and engraver (born 1720)