1791 deaths

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies, concertos, chamber music, opera, and choral music.

founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)

French writer, orator and statesman (1749-1791)

Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)

French sculptor (1716–1791)

British philosopher, preacher and mathematician (1723–1791)

German poet (1739-1791)

Spanish writer and fabulista

German botanist (1732–1791)

French adventuress

American planter and merchant (1726-1791)

Portuguese scientist and botanist

Czech mineralogist and nobleman (1742-1791)

English historian, philosopher, feminist (1731-1791)

Besarion Zakarias dze Gabashvili (), commonly known by his pen name Besiki () (1750 – 25 January 1791), was a Georgian poet, politician and diplomat, known as an author of exquisite love songs and heroic odes as well as for his political and amorous adventures.

German poet (1722-1791)

American politician, judge, and author 1737-1791

Swedish-German physician (1740–1791)

German singer and composer

German theologian (1725-1791)

British countess (1707-1791)

German princess (1735-1791)

Flemish art historian (1714-1791)

German-Danish botanist (1728-1791)

Physician, botanist and zoologist (1730-1791)

German writer

Russian playwright

German academic (1717–1791)

British physician, naturalist and writer

German noble (1722-1791)

Naturalist, writer and illustrator (1718-1791)

Welsh hymnwriter (1717-1791)

Italian anatomist and physician

English naturalist (1717-1791)

French poet, historian

Dutch entomologist of German origin

Italian composer

khan of Crimea

Haitian revolutionary

Patriarch of Constantinople

Polish-Lithuanian poet, translator and philanthropist (1718-1791)

thumb|Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) at his work table, from the Cours théorique et pratique du livre de Thot (1790). Etteilla, the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was the French occultist and tarot-researcher, who was the first to develop an interpretation concept for the tarot cards and made a significant contribution to the esoteric development of the tarot cards to a wide audience (from 1783), and therefore the first professional tarot occultist known to history who made his living by card divination. Etteilla also influenced the French divination

Polish rabbi

Italian mathematician (1709-1791)

politician

German architect (1731-1791)

French silversmith (1726–1791)

Italian composer

French printmaker (1727-1791)

Italian Franciscan saint

French soldier

Joseon dynasty painter (1713-1791)

politician

French children's author

Muslim historian

French opera singer and composer

politician

Danish artist (1755-1791)

Norwegian writer (1746-1791)

Governor of Jamaica and Madras (1739-1791)