Deaths
- January 17 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (born 1718)
- February 12 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian physiologist (born 1729)
- February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician and physicist (born 1733)
- August 2 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (born 1745)
- August 25 - John Arnold, English watchmaker (born 1736)
- October 6 - William Withering, English physician, discoverer of digitalis (born 1741)
- December 6 - Joseph Black, Scottish chemist and physicist (born 1728)
- December 31 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (born 1716)
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