Necrology 1709
This is a list of famous people who died in 1709 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .
January
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th January | Louise de Prie de La Mothe-Houdancourt | French governess | ||
| 6th January | Joshua Schwartz | German theologian and general superintendent | 76 | |
| 6th January | Michael Bush | German mathematician | 73 | |
| 10. January | Peter Hotton | Dutch medic and botanist | 60 | |
| January 20th | François d'Aix de Lachaise | Jesuit | 84 | |
| January 24th | George Rooke | English admiral | ||
| January 26th | Eleonore Charlotte of Saxony-Lauenburg | Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg | 62 | |
| 31 January | Hans Philipp Roeder von Diersburg | German captain | 43 |
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1st | Carel Allard | Dutch art dealer, cartographer and engraver | ||
| February 2nd | Heinrich Adrian von Veltheim | German nobleman | 35 | |
| February 4th | Anne de Rohan-Chabot | Princess of Soubise and mistress of the French king Louis XIV. | ||
| February 8 | Giuseppe Torelli | Italian composer and violinist | 50 | |
| February 9 | Johann Christoph Boecklin | German engraver | 51 | |
| February 11th | Jean-Antoine d'Avaux | French diplomat | ||
| February 11th | Luise Hollandine from the Palatinate | Princess of the Palatinate, abbess of the Maubuisson monastery (1664–1709) as well as painter and engraver | 86 | |
| February 17th | Erik Benzelius the Elder | Swedish theologian and archbishop | 76 | |
| 19th of February | Tokugawa Tsunayoshi | Japanese shogun | 62 | |
| 21st of February | Ludwig-Ferdinand | Count of Lippe-Brake | 28 | |
| February 22 | François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti | Prince of Conti | 44 | |
| February 23 | Paul Gottfried Sperling | German medic | 57 | |
| February | Adriaen Cornelisz. Beeldemaker | Dutch Golden Age painter |
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st March | Juan de Peñaloza | Viceroy of Peru | ||
| 4th of March | Dionysius of Werl | Capuchins and controversial writers | ||
| 8th of March | William Cowper | English surgeon and anatomist | ||
| March, 15 | James Thynne | English politician | ||
| March 18th | Abraham Starck | Bohemian organ builder | ||
| 28th March | Burchard de Volder | Dutch philosopher, medic, physicist, astronomer and mathematician | 65 |
April
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1st | Henri Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé | Prince of Condé | 65 | |
| 2nd of April | Giovanni Battista Gaulli | Italian Baroque painter | 69 | |
| April 5th | Roger de Piles | French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat | 73 | |
| April 8th | Wolfgang Dietrich zu Castell-Remlingen | German count and sovereign | 68 | |
| 9th April | Godfrey Copley | English landowner and founder of the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | ||
| 12. April | Jaroslaw Ignaz von Sternberg | Bishop of Leitmeritz | 67 | |
| April 13th | Wolfgang Melchior Stisser | German Protestant theologian and teacher | 76 | |
| April 15th | Amalia Regina from Zinzendorf | Countess of Ortenburg, Countess of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf | 45 | |
| April 16 | Bartholomäus Botsack | German Protestant theologian and pastor, superintendent of the city of Braunschweig | 59 | |
| April 19th | Israel Kolmodin | Swedish Lutheran theologian and hymn poet | 65 | |
| 20th of April | Thomas Fredenhagen | Lübeck merchant, councilor and patron of the baroque era | 81 | |
| 20th of April | Martin Hanke | German school principal and historian | 76 | |
| 20th of April | Johann Ernst von Thun and Hohenstein | Prince Archbishop of Salzburg (1687–1709) | 65 | |
| April 21 | Friedrich German | German Protestant theologian | 52 | |
| April 27 | Wilhelm Julius Coyet | Swedish lawyer, diplomat and government official | 62 |
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st of May | Samuel Bachmann | Swiss clergyman | 72 | |
| May 4th | Eleonore Klara | Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken | 76 | |
| May 6th | John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace | Governor of the English colony of New York | ||
| May 6th | Alvise Mocenigo II. | Doge of Venice | 81 | |
| May 26 | Baldassare Cenci | Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Fermo and Cardinal of the Roman Church | 62 | |
| May 27th | Thomas Gautier | French Protestant theologian | 71 | |
| 28th of May | Friederike of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg | Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst | 34 |
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd of June | Giovanni Battista Grancino | Italian violin maker | ||
| June 12 | Jacob Born | Saxon lawyer and mayor of Leipzig | 70 | |
| June 13th | Joachim Carl von Prehn | royal Danish colonel and chief of the Dithmersen cavalry regiment | ||
| 14th June | Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie | first lieutenant general of the French police | ||
| 14th June | Franz-Ernst von Platen | Imperial Count of Platen-Hallermund | ||
| 14th June | Gottfried Wegner | German Lutheran theologian | 65 | |
| June 24th | Diego José de Salazar | Spanish conductor and composer | ||
| 25th June | Frederick VII Magnus | Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1677–1709) | 61 | |
| June 29th | Antoine Thomas | Jesuit priest and missionary | 65 |
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd July | Jakob Scheiffelhut | Baroque composer | ||
| July 9 | Christopher Slaughterford | The first Englishman executed only on the basis of evidence as a murderer | ||
| 17th July | Pascal Collasse | French composer | ||
| July 18th | Antonio Franchi | Italian painter and art theorist | 71 | |
| 30th July | Edward Lhuyd | Welsh botanist |
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4th of August | Elisabeth Amalie of Hessen-Darmstadt | Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, first duchess of Palatinate-Neuburg, Jülich and Berg by marriage and later also Electress of Palatinate | 74 | |
| August 23 | Domenico Manuel Caetano | Italian alchemist, gold maker and impostor | ||
| August 24th | Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg | Landgrave and Regent of Hessen-Darmstadt | 69 | |
| 29th August | Johann Friedrich Schweitzer | German medic and alchemist | 79 | |
| August 31 | John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower | British politician | 34 | |
| August 31 | Andrea Pozzo | Italian painter and art writer | 66 |
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 4th | Jean-François Regnard | French author | 54 | |
| 5th September | Johann Georg Neumann | German Lutheran theologian and church historian | 48 | |
| 7th of September | Gunno Eurelius Dahlstierna | Swedish surveyor and late Baroque poet | 48 | |
| the 9th of September | Bella bead stapler | Jewish writer, professional letter writer and music teacher | ||
| September 11 | Christian Siegmund von Aschersleben | Royal Prussian Colonel and Commander of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 2 | ||
| September 11 | Daniel von Tettau | Prussian major general, colonel of the Grendadier bodyguard and chamberlain | 39 | |
| 12th September | Adolph von Wangenheim | Brandenburg Lieutenant General | ||
| September 20th | Hector Gottfried Masius | German-Danish Lutheran theologian | 56 | |
| September 22 | Ivan Masepa | Ukrainian hetman | ||
| 25th of September | Maximilian Emanuel von Württemberg-Winnental | Prince from the House of Württemberg-Winnental, Swedish colonel | 20th | |
| 30. September | Hartmann Samuel Hoffmann von Löwenfeld | German major general | 56 | |
| September | Thomas Quellinus | Flemish sculptor |
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2nd | Claude Poullart des Places | French clergyman and founder of the Spiritan order | 30th | |
| 8th October | Johann Karl von Thüngen | Imperial Field Marshal General | 61 | |
| 9th October | Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland | Duchess of Cleveland | 68 | |
| October 14th | Lee Seo-woo | Korean philosopher, poet, politician and artist | 76 | |
| October 14th | Wilhelm | Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode | 66 | |
| October 17th | François Mauriceau | French doctor, surgeon and obstetrician | ||
| October 17th | Gregor Anton Oginski | Polish-Lithuanian hetman and Governor General of the Duchy of Samogitia | 55 |
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1st | Ludwig Friedrich zu Wied | German nobleman | 53 | |
| November 8th | Dimitri of Rostov | Metropolitan of Rostov (1702–1709) | 57 | |
| November 18 | Peter von Lengerke | German lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg | 58 | |
| November 23 | Johann Wilhelm Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland | Dutch-English courtier and diplomat | 61 |
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1 | Abraham a Sancta Clara | German theologian, preacher and writer | 65 | |
| December 7th | Meindest Hobbema | Dutch painter | 71 | |
| December 8th | Thomas Corneille | French poet | 84 | |
| 12th of December | Martin Resch | Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmünster | 60 | |
| 23rd of December | Alexandros Mavrokordatos | Politician and dragoman in the Ottoman Empire | ||
| December 26th | Johann Philipp Bendeler | German organist and organ theorist | ||
| December 26th | Justus Philipp Meyenberg | German Protestant theologian | 67 | |
| December 29th | Karl Heinrich Charisius | German lawyer | 59 |
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdul Rahman Mohmand | Afghan poet | |||
| Jean I Barraband | French sculptor | |||
| Cristofaro Caresana | Italian Baroque composer | |||
| James Cunningham | British doctor and plant collector | |||
| Pierre Danet | French cleric, Latinist, Hellenist, Romanist and lexicographer | |||
| Pierre Dipy | Maronite, orientalist and librarian | |||
| Johann Gropp | German theologian | |||
| Johann Balthasar hero | Organ builder | |||
| Ludwig von Herbeville | imperial field marshal | |||
| Friedrich Wilhelm von Horn | Mecklenburg government official and diplomat | |||
| Johannes Wendel Kirchner | German organ builder | |||
| Thomas Mace | English musician and music writer | |||
| Michiel Maddersteg | Dutch painter | |||
| Veit Ludwig Megander | evangelical spiritual writer | |||
| Metta from Swabia | Benefactress, conventual and prioress of the Uetersen monastery | |||
| Pierre Naust | French instrument maker | |||
| Phrachao Suea | King of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya | |||
| Elisabetta Querini | Dogaressa | |||
| Bartolomeo Tricomi | Italian painter |