- January 10
- Death of Marie-Joseph de Chénier at age 46; French poet (Chant du Départ). [1]
- February 9
- Death of Nevill Maskelyne; 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811). [1]
- March 14
- Death of August Henry Fitzroy at age 75; English premier (1768-70). [1]
- July 30
- Death of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, executed by Spanish firing squad during Mexican War of Independence. [446.50] (July 31 [1])
- December 26
- In Richmond, Virginia, a fire breaks out in a new theater, killing almost eighty, including Governor George Smith. [521]
1812
- April 11
- Death of Gottlieb Schick at age 35; German painter (Opfer Noachs). [1]
- April 20
- Death of George Clinton at age 73; fourth US Vice President, first Vice President to die in office. [1]
- September 19
- Death of financier Mayer Amschel von Rothschild. [502.38]
- October 13
- Death of Isaac Brock at Battle of Queenston Heights in Canada; major-general (1811-12) British Army, in command of military and civil government of Upper Canada. [990.33]
- December 20
- Death of Sacagawea Shoshone; interpreter for Lewis and Clark. [1]
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1813
- January 23
- Death of George Clymer at age 73; US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]
- February 26
- Death of Robert R Livingston at age 66; US diplomat (Declaration of Independence). [1]
- April 19
- Death of Dr. Benjamin Rush at age 67; medical doctor, delegate to Continental Congress, signed Declaration of Independence for Pennsylvania, Surgeon-General of Continental Army, president of Philadelphia Medical Society, US Mint Treasurer (1797-1813). [1] [619.22] [1098.980]
- April 25
- Death of Louis-Sébastien Mercier at age 73; French poet (Le Déserteur). [1]
- April 27
- Death of Zebulon M Pike at age 34 in battle; US explorer (Pike's Peak). [1]
- October 5
- Death of Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames at Chatham, Ontario. [1076.10]
1814
- January 29
- Death of Johann G Fichte at age 51; German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre). [1]
- April 1
- Death of Jozef de Ferrarisat age 87; French/Austrian General/cartographer. [1]
- May 12
- Death of Robert Treat Paine at age 83; US judge (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]
- May 29
- Joséphine, empress of France (1804-14), dies. [1]
- August 24
- Death of British commander Sir Edward Pakenham, at Battle of Bladensburg. [118.33]
- November 23
- Death of Elbridge Thomas Gerry, American statesman and diplomat, Governor of Massachusetts (1810-11), Vice President (1813-14), at age 70. [1] [130]
1815
- January 8
- Edward Pakenham, English General (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle. [1]
- February 24
- Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies. [1]
- November 5
- José Maria Morelos y Pavón, Mexican revolutionary priest, is executed by Spaniards. [446.50]
- December 7
- Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo), is murdered at age 46. [1]
- December 20
- Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at age 75. [1]
1816
- January 27
- Samuel Hood, first Viscount Hood, English admiral, dies. [1]
- March 19
- Death of Filippo Mazzei in Pisa, Italy; freedom fighter, militia member in Virginia 1776, co-founded Constitution Society 1784, published four-volume history of US and North America. [966.117]
- May 29
- Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, dies. [1]
1817
- January 1
- Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at age 73. [1]
- February 18
- Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies at age 72. [1]
- April 12
- Charles Messier, "comet ferret" and cataloger of famous "M objects", dies. [1]
- December 7
- William Bligh, British naval officer of Bounty fame dies in London at age 63. [1]
- December 15
- Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies. [1]
1818
- February 13
- George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in American Revolutionary War, dies. [1]
- February 15
- Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18), King of Norway (1814-18), dies at age 69. [1]
- February 28
- Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dutch publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at age 56. [1]
- March 29
- Death of Alexandre Sabes Pétion; President of southern Haiti. [1166.246]
- May 2
- Herman W Daendels, Governor-General of Guinea (1815-18), dies at age 55. [1]
- May 10
- Death of Paul Revere in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; American patriot, silversmith, engraver. [1] [450.175]
- May 26
- Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian fieldmarshal/War Minister, dies. [1]
- August 22
- Warren Hastings, first governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at age 85. [1]
- August 28
- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies. [1]
- December 5
- Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, Secretary of High Council Adel, dies at age 60. [1]
1819
- January 20
- Carlos IV, King of Spain (1788-1808), dies at age 70. [1]
- May 22
- John H van Kinsbergen, US Lieutenant-Admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at age 84. [1]
- December 9
- Ann C Coleman, fiancee of President James Buchanan, commits suicide. [1]
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