Necrology 1715
This is a list of famous people who died in 1715 . 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 7th | Mary Somerset | English botanist and nobleman | 85 | |
| January 7th | François Fénelon | French clergyman and writer | 63 | |
| January 8th | Johann Friedrich von Seilern | Austrian court chancellor and imperial count | ||
| January 18th | Samuel Schelwig | German educator and Lutheran theologian | 71 | |
| 22nd of January | Marc'Antonio Ziani | Italian composer | ||
| January 24th | Martin Conrad Biermann from Ehrenschild | Danish budget, justice state and district administrator of the Pinneberg domain | ||
| January 26th | Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld | Erzgebirge hammer owner and founder of Carlsfeld | 70 | |
| January 27th | Uri Phoebus ha-Levi | Dutch-Jewish publisher | 89/90 | |
| January 27th | Kaspar Neumann | German Lutheran theologian, representative of political arithmetic and pioneer of population statistics | 66 |
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 February | Gottfried Vopelius | Cantor of the Leipzig City School St. Nikolai | 70 | |
| February 6th | Richard Haddock | Royal Navy officer, politician in the House of Commons | ||
| February 8 | Johann Kasimir Röls | German auxiliary bishop | 68 | |
| February 9 | David Theodor Lehmann | German literary scholar and philologist | 28 | |
| 19th of February | Antoine Galland | Orientalist | 68 | |
| 19th of February | Domenico Egidio Rossi | Italian architect and builder | 55 | |
| 21st of February | Alexander Johannes Franziskus Ignatius Waldbott von Bassenheim | German nobleman and canon | 48 | |
| 21st of February | Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore | Lord Proprietor of Maryland | 77 | |
| February 25 | Pu Songling | Chinese poet | 74 | |
| February 28 | Andreas broom | German master carpenter and architect |
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd March | Emmanuel Théodose de la Tour d'Auvergne | French cardinal | 71 | |
| 4th of March | Franz of Chemnitz | Judge at the Wismar Tribunal | 58 | |
| 8th of March | Lips Tullian | Robber captain | ||
| March 21st | Johann Baptist von Arco | Field Marshal General of the Electorate of Bavaria in the War of the Spanish Succession | ||
| March 22 | Raymundus Regondi | Abbot of Altenburg Abbey | 62 | |
| 27th of March | August | Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig | 60 | |
| March | William Dampier | British privateer, three-time circumnavigator, explorer and geographer | 63 | |
| March | Caspar Schultze | German engraver |
April
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1st | Ondraszek | Robin Hood of the Beskids, a robber and folk hero | ||
| 3rd of April | Wilhelm David Habermann | German medic | ||
| 4. April | Emanuel von Graffenried | Swiss politician, Schultheiss von Bern | ||
| April 6th | Jacobus Perizonius | Dutch classical scholar | 63 | |
| 10th of April | Lebrecht from the bush | Russian major general and governor of Riga | 48 | |
| 10th of April | Joachim Friedrich Kornmesser | Mayor of Berlin (1709–1715) | 74 | |
| April 16 | Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore | Lord Proprietor of Maryland | 36 | |
| April 16 | Friedrich | Prince of Saxony-Weissenfels, Herr auf Dahme, General Elector of Saxony | 41 | |
| 17th April | Albrecht Wolfgang | Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg | 55 | |
| 26th of April | Christoph Siegmund von Holtzendorff | Polish-Saxon Chamberlain | 43 | |
| April 27 | Valerian Brenner | Master builder of the Vorarlberg Baroque | 63 |
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8th of May | Henning Bernward Witter | German theologian | 32 | |
| May 11th | Maria Mancini | Mistress of the French King Louis XIV. | 75 | |
| 12th of May | Johann Christian Adami | German Lutheran theologian and hymn poet | 53 | |
| 17th of May | Andreas von Gundelsheimer | German doctor, botanist and explorer | ||
| May 19th | Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax | English politician and poet | 54 | |
| May 21 | Pierre Magnol | French botanist | 76 | |
| May 21 | Laurentius Weger the Younger | German philologist | 61 | |
| May | Franz Caspar Barkhausen | German lawyer, librarian and archivist | ||
| May | Thomas Savery | English engineer and inventor |
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 5th | Daniel Eberlin | German Kapellmeister and composer | ||
| June 11th | Johann Samuel Stryk | German legal scholar | 47 | |
| 15th June | Euphrosyne floodplains | German poet | 37 | |
| 18th of June | Heinrich Franz von Mansfeld | Austrian diplomat, field marshal and President of the Court War Council | 74 | |
| June 19th | Nicolas Lémery | French medic and chemist | 69 | |
| June 19th | Alexander of Lueneburg | Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck | 71 | |
| June 21st | John of Tobolsk | orthodox bishop and saint | 63 | |
| June 24th | John Partridge | English astrologer | 71 | |
| 25th June | Jean Baptiste du Casse | French admiral and buccaneer | 68 |
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd July | Hortensia Gugelberg from Moos | Swiss author and doctor | ||
| 5th July | Charles Ancillon | Franco-German lawyer and diplomat | 55 | |
| 15th of July | Maria Clara von Berg-s'Heerenberg | Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | 80 | |
| July 25th | Franz II. Joseph of Lorraine | Son of Duke Charles V of Lorraine and abbot of the monasteries of Stablo and Malmedy | 25th | |
| July 28th | Michael Henck | Swedish admiral | 47 | |
| July 28th | Jakub Kresa | Bohemian mathematician and Jesuit | 67 | |
| 30th July | Nahum Tate | English poet and writer |
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1st | Johann Ernst IV. | Duke of Saxe-Weimar and composer | 18th | |
| 3rd August | Conrad von Rosen | General, Marshal of France | 86 | |
| 8th August | Just Juel | Danish admiral and diplomat | 50 | |
| August 9 | Johann Nikolaus Quistorp | German Protestant theologian, superintendent and university professor | 64 | |
| August 16 | Johann Gregor Fuchs | German architect and builder of the baroque | ||
| August 16 | Marie Elisabeth of Hessen-Darmstadt | Duchess of Saxony-Römhild | 59 | |
| August 16 | Raymond Vieussens | French anatomist | ||
| 17th August | Hannibal Germanus von Schmertzing | Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Chamberlain, Chief Chamberlain and Governor of the Ballei Thuringia | 54 | |
| August 21 | Johanna Magdalena of Hanau | German countess | 54 |
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1 | François Girardon | French sculptor | 87 | |
| September 1 | Louis XIV | King of France (1643-1715) | 76 | |
| September 2nd | Constantin Christian Dedekind | German poet and composer | 87 | |
| September 2nd | Marcus Dornblüth | Mayor of Dresden | 73 | |
| September 3 | Albert Octave t'Serclaes de Tilly | Spanish war councilor and field marshal general, viceroy of Navarre, Aragon and Catalonia | 68 | |
| September 6th | Basil Petritz | Kreuzkantor in Dresden | ||
| September 10 | Nicolò Partenio Giannettasio | Italian Jesuit, polymath and neo-Latin poet | 67 | |
| September 14th | Dom Pérignon | French Benedictine monk and cellar master | ||
| September 24th | Wilhelm Homberg | German naturalist | 63 | |
| September 27th | Thomas Burnet | English author and theologian |
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 6th | Melchior Hoffmann | German composer | ||
| 8th October | Moyse Garrigue | Jeweler and dealer | ||
| 9th October | Albert Ernst von Wartenberg | Auxiliary Bishop in Regensburg, historian | 80 | |
| October 13th | Nicolas Malebranche | French philosopher and monk without religious vows | 77 | |
| 15th October | Humphry Ditton | English theologian and mathematician | 40 | |
| 15th October | Friedrich von Heyden | Brandenburg-Prussian general of the infantry | ||
| October 17th | serious | Duke of Saxony-Hildburghausen | 60 | |
| October 17th | Johann Christoph von Urbich | Privy Councilor, Danish Ambassador and Minister in Vienna | 62 | |
| the 20th of October | Meinrad II. | Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1689–1715) | 41 | |
| 30th of October | Juliane Louise of East Frisia | Princess of East Frisia | 57 |
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2 | Charlotte Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel | Mother of the Russian Tsar Peter II. | 21st | |
| November 6th | Emetullah | Favorite consort Mehmed IV and the mother of the two Ottoman sultans Mustafa II and Ahmet III. | ||
| November 10th | Gottfried Olearius | German philologist and Protestant theologian | 43 | |
| November 16 | Christian Albrecht von Grothusen | German soldier in Swedish service | 35 | |
| November 24th | Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf | Swedish queen | 79 | |
| November 27th | Johann Volckmar | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, chief pastor at St | 55 |
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2. December | Jean-Baptiste Belin | French painter | 62 | |
| December 4th | Charles III Joseph of Lorraine | Bishop in Olomouc (1695–1711), Bishop of Osnabrück (1698–1715); Bishop of Trier (1711–1715) | 35 | |
| December 7th | Dorothea Katharina von Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler | Countess of Nassau-Ottweiler | 81 | |
| 9th of December | Gabriel von Kühlen | Prussian major general and chief of the Prussian artillery | ||
| December 14th | Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick | Governor of the English colony of New York | ||
| December 16 | Ulrich Carl von Bassewitz | German-Swedish general in the Great Northern War | 36 | |
| December 22 | Maurus Corker | English Benedictine, Abbot of Lamspringe | ||
| December 28th | Folbert van Alten-Allen | Dutch Vedouten painter | ||
| 30th of December | Johann Jakob Chuno | German archivist |
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filippo Abbiati | Italian painter | |||
| Petros Bereketis | Greek Orthodox church musician | |||
| Norbert Bicker | Abbot of the Wedinghausen Monastery | |||
| Stephan Brodmann | German Catholic priest | |||
| Jan Abraham from Gehema | German doctor and heraldist | |||
| Johann Hornung | German-Baltic linguist | |||
| Me Wais Hotak | Founder of the Hotaki dynasty | |||
| Jan Erasmus Quellinus | Flemish painter | |||
| Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir | Icelandic embroidery designer, wife of Bishop Gísli Þorláksson | |||
| Joseph Raphson | English mathematician | |||
| Johann Rieder | first court and body ship master of the Electorate of Bavaria | |||
| Michael Ludwig Anton Rohrer | builder | |||
| Jakob Schöpf | German cabinet maker and sculptor | |||
| Antonio Sebastián de Toledo | Viceroy of New Spain | |||
| Richard Waller | English naturalist, translator and illustrator | |||
| Wang Yuanqi | Chinese painter |