page_title: 1797
section_title: April–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1797 / Deaths / April–June
caption_attribution_description: English: François-Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) was a French political agitator and journalist.Français&#160;: Gracchus Babeuf âgé de 34 ans, gravure de François Bonneville, 1794.
context_page_description: 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1797th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 797th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1797, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: April 4 – Pierre-François Berruer, French sculptor (b. 1733)
  April 17 – Susanna Boylston, prominent early-American socialite (b. 1708)
  April 27 – Henry Louis, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken, titular prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken (b. 1768)
  April 29 – Elizabeth Ryves, Irish writer, translator (b. 1750)
  May 7 – Jedediah Strutt, English hosier and cotton spinner from Belper (b. 1726)
  May 14 – Giovanni Fagnano, Italian churchman and mathematician (b. 1715)
  May 17 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
  May 25
  Andrew Elliot, acting colonial governor of the Province of New York (b. 1728)
  John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
  May 27
  François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1760)
  Augustin Alexandre Darthé, French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1769)
  June 15 – Christen Friis Rottbøll, Danish physician, botanist and pupil of Carolus Linnaeus (b. 1727)
  June 17
  Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran (b. 1742)
  Mohammad Khan Qajar, Iranian king (b. 1742)
  June 21 – Andreas Peter Bernstorff, Danish statesman, politician (b. 1735)
  June 24 – Bahadur Shah of Nepal, younger son of King Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723–1775) of modern Nepal (b. 1757)
  June 30
  Welbore Ellis Doyle, third Military Governor of British Ceylon (b. 1758)
  Richard Parker, English sailor executed for his role as president of the so-called "Floating Republic" (b. 1767)
caption: François-Noël Babeuf
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