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1798 deaths

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Giacomo Casanova

Venetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)

Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher

Stanisław August Poniatowski

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1764-1795)

George Vancouver

English naval explorer (1757–1798)

Rigas Velestinlis

Greek philosopher (1757-1798)

Johann Reinhold Forster

German naturalist (1729–1798)

Heraclius II of Georgia

Georgian monarch; King of Kakheti (1744–62), King of Kartli and Kakheti (1762–98)

English mathematician

Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen

Duchess of Teschen

Irish politician (1763-1798)

Welsh naturalist (1726-1798)

Christian Gottlob Neefe

German composer and conductor (1748–1789)

Justice on the US Supreme Court (1742-1798)

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

Margravine Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Tarrare (;  – 1798), sometimes spelt Tarar, was a French showman, soldier, and spy noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents could not provide for him and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled around France in the company of a band of prostitutes and thieves before becoming the warm-up act for a travelling charlatan. In this act, he swallowed corks, stones, live animals, and a whole basketful of apples. He then took this act to Paris, where he worked as a street performer.

American politician (1733-1798)

American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer (1743–1798)

Infanta María Amalia of Spain

Spanish Infanta

Antoine de Chézy

French engineer

Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda

Spanish diplomat 10th Count of Aranda (1719-1798)

Karl Wilhelm Ramler

François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers

French admiral (1753–1798)

Gaetano Pugnani

Italian violinist and composer

Christian Cannabich

German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister (1731-1798)

Asmus Jacob Carstens

German history painter (1754–1798)

German composer

Laurynas Gucevičius

Polish-Lithuanian architect

Joseph Hilarius Eckhel

Austrian Jesuit priest and numismatist (1737–1798)

Martinus Houttuyn

Dutch naturalist (1720-1798)

Punjabi poet (1722-1798)

Lord Edward FitzGerald

Irish nationalist (1763–1798)

Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus

Austrian entomologist

Scottish neoclassical history painter, trader in sculptures and paintings (1723–1798)

Christian Garve

German Enlightenment philosopher

Giuseppe Giordani

Italian composer (1751–1798)

Madeleine de Puisieux

João de Sousa Carvalho

Portuguese composer

French politician (1759-1798)

François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt

Austrian marshal

Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha

Polish noble and general

Erland Samuel Bring

Swedish mathematician

Gaetano Brunetti

Italian composer and violinist

Friedrich Karl von Moser

German politician (1723-1798)

Jean Guillaume Bruguière

French zoologist (1750-1798)

American landowner and developer from Morrisania, New York (1726-1798), Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini

French diplomat and writer (1716-1798)

German born Dutch classical scholar (1723-1798)

Politician, eighth Governor of Maryland, member of US Senate. 1750-1798

Charles de Wailly

French architect (1730-1798)

Peter Frederik Suhm

Danish-Norwegian historian (1728-1798)

Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria (1780-1798)

Austrian archduchess

Joseph Frederick William

Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

François Louis Bourdon

French politician (1758-1798)

Charles-Joseph Panckoucke

French writer and publisher

Francisco de Lacerda

Portuguese explorer

American politician (1744-1798)

Austrian writer

Matija Antun Relković

Croatian writer (1732–1798)

Francesco Milizia

Italian art historian and architect