1798 deaths

Austrian writer

French writer and publisher

Croatian writer (1732–1798)

politician

French painter (1706-1798)

Buddhist Lama of the Nyingma lineage (1730–1798)

Austrian and Portuguese General (1744–1798)

composer

Irish nationalist

German jurist (1746-1798)

Italian painter (18th century)

French naval officer

French general (1739-1798)

18th-century Dutch painter and art collector (1726–1798)

Austrian artist (1745-1798)

Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus

Maharaja of Travancore

Italian patriarch

American historian

French Navy officer (1762-1798)

Swedish sinecure

Austrian-Italian painter (1732-1798)

German officer

French revolutionary general of brigade (1767–1798)

Luxembourgish politician (1713-1798)

Peruvian jesuit (1748-1798)

Spanish diplomat

Spanish explorer

member of the House of Bourbon, a Prince of Naples and Sicily by birth

Italian artist (1726-1798)

Polish brigadier

Swiss writer

natural healer executed for witchcraft

Italian musician (1716-1798)

British astronomer

French mathematician (1744-1798)

brother of sultan Yazid and Abdelrahmane of Morocco

Vietnamese poet

French military personnel

Ottoman ambassador

German composer

French painter active in Lille (1731-1798)

Second son of Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick and Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia (1745-1798)

Spanish writer

French politician

Romanian poet

Italian painter

Swiss commander-in-chief

German missionary

French painter (1708–1798)

organist (1723-1798)

Marshal of France (1723–1798)

German chemist

Irish earl

British Army general

King of Kandy in Sri Lanka

leader in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (d.1798)

German Swiss painter (1727-1798)

Irish priest, born 1753

Ottoman calligrapher