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1803 deaths

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Johann Gottfried Herder

German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)

American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts and Founding Father of the United States (1722-1803)

Toussaint Louverture

Haitian national hero (1743–1803)

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

German poet, writer and linguist

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

French novelist, official and army general (1741–1803)

Vittorio Alfieri

Italian noble, dramatist and poet (1749–1803)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

French painter and miniaturist (1749–1803)

Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia

Russian grand duchess (1784-1803)

Franz Xaver Süssmayr

Austrian composer and conductor

Louis of Parma, king of Etruria

King of Etruria (1773-1803)

William Hamilton

Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist (1730-1803)

Arthur Guinness

Arthur Guinness was an Irish brewer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. The inventor of Guinness stout, he founded the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in 1759.

Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader (1780-1803)

French explorer (1754-1803)

Anders Chydenius

Swedish priest and politician (1729–1803)

Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim

German poet (1719–1803)

Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena

Italian noble (1727–1803)

Sylvain Maréchal

French writer and philosopher (1750-1803)

Cardinal de Rohan

Catholic cardinal (1734-1803)

François Marie Daudin

French zoologist (1776–1803)

Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin

French philosopher

Jean-François de La Harpe

French playwright, writer and critic (1739-1803)

British explorer (1771–1803)

George I of Saxe-Meiningen

Duke of Saxe-Meiningen from 1782 to 1803

Jean François de Saint-Lambert

French poet, philosopher and military officer

Gottfried van Swieten

Dutch noble, diplomat, librettist and music patron (1733-1803)

Giovanni Battista Casti

poet and librettist from Italy (1724-1803)

Asaf Jah II of Hyderabad

Nizam of Hyderabad

Nikolay Alexandrovich Lvov

Russian artist and architect (1753-1804)

Lemuel Francis Abbott

François Devienne

French composer, flautist, bassoonist

Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse

Genevan chemist (1750-1803)

Norwegian biologist; student of Linnaeus (1723—1803)

Prince Fredrik Adolf, Duke of Östergötland

Swedish Royal (1750–1803)

Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher (1735-1803)

Georges-Louis Le Sage

Genevan physicist, most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases (1724-1803)

Kirill Razumovsky

Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (1728-1803)

Abdulaziz bin Mohammed

ruler of the Emirate of Diriyah from 1765 to 1803

Samuel von Brukenthal

Habsburg governor

Gregorio Fontana

Italian mathematician (1735-1803)

French actress (1723-1803)

Christoph Anton Migazzi

Catholic bishop (1714-1803)

Said bin Ahmad Al Busaidi

Ippolit Bogdanovich

Russian poet (1743–1803)

Prince Karl Wilhelm I, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1775-1803)

Hieronymus van Alphen

Dutch poet and writer (1746–1803)

Matthew Thornton

American politician (1714-1803)

Karl von Eckartshausen

German writer and archivist

Edmund Pendleton

American politician (1721-1803)

Italian writer, naturalist and cartographer (1741-1803)

Louis François Antoine Arbogast

French mathematician

John Joseph Merlin

horologist, inventor

Maha Sura Singhanat

Vice King of Siam (1744-1803)

Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford

British politician (1721-1803)

Gasparo Angiolini

ballet dancer, composer, choreographer

Francesco Giuseppe Casanova

Venetian painter (1727-1803)

Scottish natural historian (1731-1803)