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1793 deaths

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Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1792. She was beheaded in 1793, during the Reign of Terror, a period of political violence in the French Revolution.

Louis XVI of France

King of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792 (1754-1793)

Italian playwright (1707-1793)

Jean-Paul Marat

politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)

Olympe de Gouges

French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)

French revolutionary

Charlotte Corday

figure of the French Revolution (1768-1793)

Madame du Barry

French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)

American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793)

Jean Sylvain Bailly

French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)

Jacques Pierre Brissot

French revolutionary (1754–1793)

Francesco Guardi

Italian painter (1712-1793)

Genevan philosopher and naturalist (1720–1793)

Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

French duke (1747-1793)

British botanist

early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States (1721–1793)

English philosopher

Alexander Roslin

Swedish painter (1718–1793)

Scottish surgeon (1728-1793)

Karl Philipp Moritz

German author, editor and essayist

Timur Shah Durrani

Emir of Afghanistan (1746 , 1793)

Karl II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg

Duke of Württemberg

Fletcher Christian

HMS Bounty mutineer (1764-1793)

Yolande de Polastron

French aristocrat and courtier (1749–1793)

Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux

French explorer

Pierre Vergniaud

French politician (1753-1793)

British botanist and apothecary (1730–1793)

Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière

French politician (1734-1793)

Jean-Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard

French botanist, mycologist and physician (1752-1793)

Nicolaas Laurens Burman

18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)

Antoine Barnave

French politician (1761-1793)

Italian composer and violinist

Jean Joseph Marie Amiot

French sinologist and missionary (1718-1793)

Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre

French duke; grandson of Louis XIV (1725–1793)

Jacques Cathelineau

Insurrection leader during the French Revolution (1759-1793)

William Robertson

British historian, minister of religion, and principal of the University of Edinburgh (1721-1793)

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

British barrister, politician and judge (1705–1793)

Anton Friedrich Büsching

German theologian and geographer

Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine

French general (1740-1793)

Armand Louis de Gontaut

French general (1747-1793)

Peter Perez Burdett

English cartographer, surveyor, artist and draughtsman (1734-1793)

William Hill Brown

American novelist (1765-1793)

Johann August Ephraim Goeze

German entomologist, discoverer of Tardigrada (1731-1793)

Leopold Hofmann

Austrian composer

Noël Martin Joseph de Necker

Belgian physician and botanist (1730-1793)

Carl Gustaf Pilo

Danish-Swedish artist (1711-1793)

Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau

French politician (1760-1793)

Patriarch Joannicius III of Constantinople

Patriarch of Constantinople

Frederick Charles, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

German natural history collector and Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1736-1793)

Charles de Bonchamps

French politician (1760-1793)

Antonio González Velázquez

Spanish painter (1723-1793)

Nguyễn Nhạc

Vietnamese emperor

Dutch rear-admiral (1724–1793)

Louis de Noailles

Marshal of France (1713-1793)

English mathematician (1741-1793)

English artist (1753-1791)

François Rozier

French botanist (1734-1793)