page_title: 1803
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1803 / Deaths / January–June
context_page_description: 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1803rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 803rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 3rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1803, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – James Woodforde, English clergyman, diarist (b. 1740)
  January 18 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
  January 23 – Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
  February 1 – Anders Chydenius, Finnish priest, politician (b. 1729)
  February 3 – María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda, Spanish scholar (b. 1768)
  February 9 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
  February 11 – Jean-François de La Harpe, French critic (b. 1739)
  February 18 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (b. 1719)
  February 20 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
  February 22 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, French Father of the American Revolution (b. 1726)
  February 23 – Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova, Russian serf actress, opera soprano (b. 1768)
  February 21 – Edward Despard, British revolutionary (b. 1751)
  March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (b. 1724)
  March 28 – Peter Du Cane, Sr., British businessman (b. 1713)
  April 2 – Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician, judge (b. 1721)
  April 6 – William Hamilton, British diplomat, antiquary (b. 1730)
  April 7
  Antoine de Bosc de la Calmette, Danish statesman, landscape architect (b. 1752)
  Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haitian revolutionary (b. 1743)
  April 14 – Christoph Anton Migazzi, Austrian Catholic bishop (b. 1714)
  April 24 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, French portrait painter (b. 1749)
  May 29 – Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, French writer (b. 1719)
  June 24 – Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
  June 26 – Fermín Lasuén, Spanish missionary (b. 1736)
caption: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
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