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==Deaths== * January 1 β [[Martin Heinrich Klaproth]] (born [[1743 in science|1743]]), German [[chemist]]. * April 12 β [[Charles Messier]] (born [[1730 in science|1730]]), French [[astronomer]]. * May 12 β [[William Goforth (doctor)|William Goforth]] (born [[1766 in science|1766]]), American [[physician]] and [[paleontologist]]. * June 2 β [[Clotilde Tambroni]], Italian [[philologist]] and linguist (born [[1758 in science|1758]]) * June 11 β [[William Gregor]] (born [[1761 in science|1761]]), Cornish [[mineralogist]]. * July 28 β [[Abraham Gottlob Werner]] (born [[1749 in science|1749]]), German [[geologist]]. * August 7 β [[Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours]] (born [[1739 in science|1739]]), French-born American [[industrialist]]. * September 18 β [[William Charles Wells]] (born [[1757 in science|1757]]), American physician. * November 7 β [[Jean-AndrΓ© Deluc]] (born [[1727 in science|1727]]), Swiss geologist. * December 15 β Abate [[Giovanni Battista Guglielmini]] (born [[1763 in science|1763]]), Bolognese [[physicist]].
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