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1796 deaths

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Catherine II of Russia

The eighth and greatest Emperor of Russia (r. 1762–1796)

Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)

James Macpherson

British writer, poet, translator and politician (1736-1796)

Vittorio Amadeo III of Sardinia

King of Sardinia (1773-1796)

Scottish philosopher (1710–1796)

Adolph Freiherr Knigge

German writer and leading Illuminati member (1752–1796)

Pyotr Rumyantsev

Field Marshal of Russia (1725-1796)

Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Queen consort of Denmark and Norway

Guillaume Thomas François Raynal

French writer (1713-1796)

Johann Daniel Titius

German astronomer

Landgravine Augusta Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt

Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, Duchess consort of Zweibrücken

Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde

French mathematician

Rani Velu Nachiyar

Indian queen and freedom fighter

Shahrukh Afshar

The fourth and last Afsharid king (1748–1796)

William Chambers

Scottish-Swedish architect; (1723-1796)

Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois

French actor and writer (1749-1796)

Continental Army general (1745-1796)

Scottish painter (1744-1796)

Prince Louis Charles of Prussia

Prussian prince (1773–1796)

David Rittenhouse

American astronomer (*1732 – †1796)

Samuel Huntington

American statesman; 18th Governor of Connecticut (1731-1796)

François Séverin Marceau

French general (1769-1796)

Philip Carteret

Royal Navy admiral (1733-1796)

Franz Anton Maulbertsch

Austrian artist (1724-1796)

Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland

German prince (1733-1796)

Adam Naruszewicz

François de Charette

French soldier, leader of the Royalist army during the War in the Vendée (1763-1796)

Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder

German writer (1741-1796)

English botanist (1758-1796)

Juan José Elhuyar

Spanish chemist

Gotthard Friedrich Stender

Baltic German cleric and grammarian (1714-1796)

Swedish painter (1735–1796)

Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz

Swedish architect (1716-1796)

Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani

Italian chess player (1719-1796)

American politician, signer of the US Constitution (1730–1796)

Swedish physicist (1732-1796)

Alexandre Guy Pingré

French canon regular, astronomer and naval geographer

Finland Swedish explorer (1737-1796)

Anna Barbara Reinhart

Swiss mathematician

Nathaniel Gorham

American businessman and politician 1738-1796

African slaved person

Felice Giardini

Italian composer and violinist

Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

Franciszka Corvin-Krasińska

Polish noble (1742-1796)

John Frederick Miller

English illustrator and ornithologist (1759-1796)

Jean-Nicolas Stofflet

French military leader

German poet (1720-1796)

American politician (1736-1796)

Paul Dietrich Giseke

German botanist, physician, teacher and librarian (1741-1796)

'''Fuk'anggan' (Manchu:, Möllendorff: Fuk'anggan''; ; 1748–1796), courtesy name Yaolin (), was a Qing dynasty general from the Fuca clan of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner.

Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg

Countess of Erbach-Schönberg by birth and by marriage Princess of Reuss-Ebersdorf

scientist, philosopher, and educator of the Scottish Enlightenment; (1726-1796)

Gavriil Pribylov

Russian explorer

Stephen Storace

British composer

Antoine-Joseph Pernety

French librarian

George Campbell

figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, born 1719

Kara Mahmud Bushati

Ottoman Albanian governor

Russian general

Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath

British noble (1734-1796)

Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann

German actor and director