People who died in the 1790s
49 notable people documented at Resting Places cemeteries died in the 1790s, according to Wikidata's death-date records. Listed by death year.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), polymath, diplomat, politician · buried at Christ Church Burial Ground
- James Bowdoin (1726–1790), governor, politician · buried at Granary Burying Ground
- Samuel Heinicke (1727–1790), teacher of the deaf, pedagogue, musician · buried at Südfriedhof (Leipzig)
- William Livingston (1723–1790), jurist, governor, politician · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
- Richard Price (1723–1791), philosopher, theologian, preacher · buried at Bunhill Fields
- Yakov Knyazhnin (1740–1791), linguist, librettist, playwright · buried at Smolensky Cemetery
- Denis Fonvizin (1745–1792), linguist, Staatsrat, translator · buried at Lazarevskoe Cemetery
- Alexander Roslin (1718–1793), portraitist, visual artist, painter · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
- Charlotte Corday (1768–1793), aristocrat · buried at Madeleine cemetery
- Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754–1793), journalist, translator, diplomat · buried at Catacombs of Paris
- John Hancock (1737–1793), statesperson, merchant, entrepreneur · buried at Granary Burying Ground
- Louis de Noailles (1713–1793), military leader, military officer · buried at Picpus Cemetery
- Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747–1793), admiral, politician, military personnel · buried at Madeleine cemetery
- Louis XVI of France (1754–1793), art collector, ruler, politician · buried at Madeleine cemetery
- Madame du Barry (1743–1793), modiste, art collector, opera singer · buried at Madeleine cemetery
- Manon Roland (1754–1793), memoirist, politician, writer · buried at Catacombs of Paris
- Pierre Vergniaud (1753–1793), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Madeleine cemetery
- Roger Sherman (1721–1793), statesperson, diplomat, politician · buried at Grove Street Cemetery
- Abraham Clark (1726–1794), politician, lawyer · buried at Rahway Cemetery
- Alexandre de Beauharnais (1760–1794), planter class, military officer, politician · buried at Picpus Cemetery
- André Chénier (1762–1794), poet, writer · buried at Picpus Cemetery
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794), administrator, academic, biologist · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Augustin Robespierre (1763–1794), politician, lawyer · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), revolutionary, journalist, jurist · buried at Catacombs of Paris
- Fabre d'Églantine (1750–1794), revolutionary, stage actor, dramaturge · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- François Chabot (1756–1794), politician · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- François Joseph Westermann (1751–1794), military personnel · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Georges Couthon (1755–1794), politician, lawyer, judge · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Georges Danton (1759–1794), revolutionary, jurist, politician · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721–1794), magistrate, botanist, jurist · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Jacques Hébert (1757–1794), journalist, editor, politician · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745–1794), translator, poet, writer · buried at Picpus Cemetery
- John Witherspoon (1723–1794), theologian, politician, writer · buried at Princeton Cemetery
- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794), revolutionary, politician, poet · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Lucile Desmoulins (1770–1794), diarist · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles (1759–1794), politician, lawyer, writer · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), revolutionary, journalist, politician · buried at Catacombs of Paris
- Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette (1763–1794), botanist, politician, lawyer · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Princess Élisabeth of France (1764–1794) · buried at Catacombs of Paris
- Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1746–1795), magistrate, civil servant, politician · buried at Errancis Cemetery
- Anton Tomaž Linhart (1756–1795), playwright, historian, poet · buried at Navje Memorial Park
- Josiah Bartlett (1729–1795), physicist, jurist, governor · buried at Plains Cemetery
- David Rittenhouse (1732–1796), geodesist, inventor, watchmaker · buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery
- Oliver Wolcott (1726–1797), politician, physician · buried at East Cemetery (Litchfield, Connecticut)
- Asmus Jacob Carstens (1754–1798), draftsperson, sculptor, painter · buried at Protestant Cemetery, Rome
- Laurynas Gucevičius (1753–1798), university teacher, architect · buried at Rasos Cemetery
- Wolfe Tone (1763–1798), politician, lawyer, writer · buried at Bodenstown Graveyard
- Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), political scientist, inventor, mathematician · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (1732–1799), arms trader, spy, opinion journalist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery