page_title: 1796
section_title: October–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1796 / Deaths / October–December
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Thomas Reid by Sir Henry Raeburn. 1796. Oil on canvas. National Trust for Scotland, Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire, UK. This portrait was commissioned by Dr. James Gregory, while Reid was staying in his house as a guest
context_page_description: 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1796th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 796th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1796, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: October 7 – Thomas Reid, religiously trained Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
  October 10 – Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1729)
  October 16
  Antoine-Joseph Pernety, French writer (b. 1716)
  Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726)
  October 30 – Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish general (b. 1726)
  November 8 – King Ang Eng of Cambodia (b. 1773)
  November 17 – Empress Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
  November 19 – Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath (b. 1734)
  December 2 – Jean Charles Abbatucci, French general during the War of the First Coalition (b. 1771)
  December 5 – George Mason V, American planter, businessman (b. 1753)
  December 10 – Israel Jacobs, colonial Pennsylvania Legislator and United States Representative from Pennsylvania (b. 1726)
  December 12 – William Buller, English clergyman (b. 1735)
  December 15 – Anthony Wayne, United States Army officer, statesman, and member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1745)
  December 16 – Johann Daniel Titius, German astronomer, professor at Wittenberg (b. 1729)
  December 18 – Lord John Cavendish, British nobleman, statesman (b. 1732)
  December 19 – Pyotr Rumyantsev, Russian general (b. 1725)
  December 25
  Bengt Anders Euphrasén, Swedish botanist (b. 1756)
  Velu Nachiyar, Indian queen of Sivaganga estate (1760–1790) (b. 1730)
  December 28 – Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, son of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1773)
caption: Thomas Reid
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