page_title: 1789
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1789 / Deaths
context_page_description: 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1789th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 789th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1789, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
  January 4
  Johan Jacob Bruun, Danish artist (b. 1715)
  Thomas Nelson Jr., American signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Virginia (1781) (b. 1738)
  January 8 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703)
  January 10 – James Mitchell Varnum, American brigadier general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman for Rhode Island (b. 1748)
  January 13 – Joseph Spencer, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1714)
  January 23 – Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
  January 25 – James Randolph Reid, American Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1750)
  February 2 – Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer and keyboard player (b. 1727)
  February 12 – Ethan Allen, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Vermont statesman (b. 1738)
  February 19 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)
  March 23 – Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, British politician (b. 1713)
  April 5 – William Vane, 2nd Viscount Vane of Ireland (b. 1714)
  April 7
  Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
  Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722)
  April 13 – Joseph Spencer, American colonel of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman for New Hampshire (b. 1739)
  April 26 – Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
  May 5 – Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, Italian literary critic (b. 1719)
  May 9
  Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (b. 1715)
  Anders Johan von Höpken, Swedish politician (b. 1712)
  May 15 – Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, French painter (b. 1714)
  May 25 –  Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
  June 4 – Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, son of Louis XVI of France (tuberculosis) (b. 1781)
  June 6 – Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort, German nobleman, head of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (b. 1714)
  June 15 – Marcus Fredrik Bang, Norwegian bishop (b. 1711)
  July 13 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
  July 14 – Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
  July 15 – Jacques Duphly, French composer and harpsichordist (b. 1715)
  July 16 – Domenico Caracciolo, Italian politician (b. 1715)
  July 22 – Joseph Foullon de Doué, French politician (executed) (b. 1715)
  July 30 – Giovanna Bonanno, Italian poisoner, alleged witch (b. c. 1713)
  August 22 – Johann Heinrich Tischbein, German artist (b. 1722)
  September 4 – Paul Spooner, American lieutenant governor of Vermont (1782–1787) (b. 1746)
  September 23
  John Rogers, American Continental Congressman for Maryland (b. 1723)
  Silas Deane, American Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1737)
  October 9 – James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn (b. 1712)
  October 27 – John Cook, American farmer, President of Delaware (b. 1730)
  November 10 – Richard Caswell, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina (1776–80, 1785–87) (b. 1729)
  November 17 – Samuel Holden Parsons, American major general of the Revolutionary War, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (b. 1737)
  November 26 – John Elwes (politician), British politician (b. 1714)
  December 3 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
  December 10 – William Pierce, American member of the Georgia House of Representatives, Continental Congressman for Georgia (c. 1753)
  December 12 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
  December 23 – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist, developer of signed French (b. 1712)
  date unknown – Mary Evans, Welsh religious leader (b. 1735)
caption: Frances Brooke
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