- March 23
- Death of Tsar Paul I of Russia by strangulation at age 46. [1]
- March 25
- Death of Anthony Ziesenis at age 69; architect/sculptor (Camper). [1]
- March 28
- Death of Ralph Abercromby at age 66; English army commander (North Holland). [1]
- May 19
- Death of Herman H Vitringa; politician (National Meetings). [1]
- June 14
- Death of Benedict Arnold in London, England; US Revolutionary War general. [1]
1802
- December 31
- Death of Francis Lewis at age 89; Welsh/US merchant, signer of US Declaration of Independence. [1]
1803
- February 17
- Death of Louis R E prince de Rohan-Guémené at age 68; archbishop of Straatsburg. [1]
- February 21
- Edward Despard is last person drawn and quartered in England. [1]
- September 13
- Death of John Barry; first American commodore. [1]
1804
- January 4
- Death of Charlotte Lennox; English novelist (The Female Quixote). [1]
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- February 2
- Death of Caesar Rodney at age 62; US judge (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]
- February 12
- Death of Immanuel Kant at age 79 in Königsberg, Prussia; German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden). [1]
- March 7
- Death of John Wedgwood; founder (Royal Horticulture Society). [1]
- March 21
- Death of Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Conde, Duke of Enghien, at Vincennes, executed by firing squad. [487.29]
- July 11
- US Vice President Aaron Burr kills Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken. [1] [677.28]
1805
- January 28
- Death of Mihály Csokonai Vitéz at age 31; Hungarian (stage)poet (Dorottya). [1]
- May 28
- Death of Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini at age 62; Italian composer/cellist (Minuet). [1]
- October 21
- The Royal Navy, led by Admiral Horatio Nelson, attacks the Franco-Spanish Fleet at Cape Trafalgar. The British capture or destroy 22 of the 33 ships, with no British ship losses. An estimated 14,000 allied forces are killed wounded, or captured, with British losses totalling 1690. Admiral Nelson is struck by a bullet and is killed. [1] [5] [472.84] [696.24]
- December 27
- Death of Belle van Zuylen at age 65; Netherlands/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes). [1]
1806
- January 23
- Death of William Pitt the Younger at age 46; Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783-1806). [1]
- February 24
- Death of John Nieuwenhuijzen at age 81; theologist (Society for General Use). [1]
- April 9
- Death of Willem V Batavus at age 58; prince of Orange-Nassau. [1]
- May 7
- Death of Robert Morris; US Superintendent of Finance. [621.58]
- October 17
- Death of Jean Jacques Dessalines; Emperor of Haiti, assassinated at entrance to Port-au-Prince. [1] [1166.246]
1807
- January 5
- Death of Michel Adanson at age 79; French biologist (Plant classes). [1]
- February 5
- Death of Pasquale Paoli at age 80; Corsican freedom fighter. [1]
- April 9
- Death of John Opie at age 45 in England; painter/illustrator, Shakespeare gallery. [1]
- April 10
- Death of Anna Amalia van Brumswijk-Wolfenbüttel; duchess of Saxon-Weimar. [1]
- April 18
- Death of Erasmus Darwin; physician/writer (Influence). [1]
- December 3
- Death of Clara Reeve; English author (old English baron). [1]
- December 4
- Death of Prince Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; activist/Masonic leader. [1]
1809
- May 8
- Death of Augustin Pajou at age 78; French sculptor (Bachante). [1]
- May 31
- Death of Franz Josef Haydn at age 77 in Vienna; Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten). [1]
- June 8
- Death of Thomas Paine at age 72; writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense). [1]
- October 11
- Death of Meriwether Lewis at age 35; captain of Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1]
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