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1792 deaths

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Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792

Joshua Reynolds

English painter (1723–1792)

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Islamic Saudi scholar, jurist and eponym of Wahhabi movement (1703–1792)

Gustav III of Sweden

King of Sweden from 1771 to 1792 (1746–1792)

Russian writer (1745-1792)

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute

British nobleman, art collector, and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1713-1792)

Richard Arkwright

textile entrepreneur; developer of the spinning frame (known as the water frame)

Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782

British neoclassical architect (1728–1792)

Vietnamese emperor

Maria Luisa of Spain

Empress Consort of the Holy Roman Empire

John Paul Jones

American naval officer (1747–1792)

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

German writer of Baltic German origin (1751-1792)

American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1725-1792)

English engineer (1724-1792)

Marie Thérèse of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe

French princess (1749-1792)

British general and playwright (1722–1792)

Jacques Cazotte

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

English Peer and statesman; inventor of the sandwich

Joseph Martin Kraus

German composer (1756-1792)

Guillaume Le Gentil

French astronomer

Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (; 12 November 1746 – 21 April 1792), known as Tiradentes (), was a leading member of the colonial Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full independence from Portuguese rule and the creation of a republic. When the conspirators plot was uncovered by authorities, Tiradentes was arrested, tried and publicly hanged.

Davit Guramishvili

Georgian poet (1705-1792)

Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

German general (1721–1792)

Johann van Beethoven

father of Ludwig van Beethoven

Charles Simon Favart

French writer (1710-1792)

Legall de Kermeur

French chess player

George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney

Royal Navy admiral; (1719–1792)

Johann Andreas Stein

German maker of keyboard instruments

Maximilian Hell

Slovak-Hungarian Jesuit, astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (1720–1792)

Adam Gottlob Moltke

Danish art collector, politician and diplomat (1710-1792)

Marie Jeanne Riccoboni

French novelist (1713–1792)

French surgeon and physiologist (1723-1792)

British explorer

Irish soldier of fortune (1698–1792)

Katsukawa Shunshō

Japanese artist (1726-1793)

René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou

French politician (1714-1792)

Antonio Rosetti

Czech classical era composer and double bass player (1746-1792)

Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave

British explorer (1744-1792)

Yazid of Morocco

Sultan of Morocco

German naturalist (1710-1792)

Armand Marc, Count of Montmorin

French diplomat

American slave trader, planter, and congressman (1724-1792)

French playwright (1717-1792)

German theologian and writer

Hamad bin Said Al Busaidi

Charles Christian Erdmann, Duke of Württemberg-Oels

Giuseppe Garampi

Catholic cardinal

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier

French highwayman

British soldier (1723-1792)

Ernst Wilhelm Wolf

German composer

Ulrike Louise of Solms-Braunfels

Landgravine and regent of Hesse-Homburg (1731-1792)

Andrzej Hieronim Zamoyski

Polish noble (1717–1792)

Venetian noble and admiral (1731-1792)

Jean-Jacques Caffieri

French artist (1725–1792)

Johann Sebastian Mueller

German-born British naturalist and illustrator (1715–c.1790)

Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld

German author (1742–1792)

Charles d'Abancourt

French statesman, minister to Louis XVI (1758-1792)

Elizaveta Vorontsova

Mistress of Russian Emperor (1739–1792)

Hamengkubuwono I

ruler of Yogyakarta, Java