Necrology 1720

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1720 . 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
January 4th	Friedrich Wilhelm Leyser	German legal scholar and municipal lawyer of Magdeburg	61
10. January	Ramon Perellos y Roccaful	Grand Master of the Order of Malta
10. January	Joseph-Emmanuel de La Trémoille	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	60
January 19th	Eleonore Magdalene of Pfalz-Neuburg	Countess Palatine of Neuburg, by marriage Empress of the Holy Roman Empire	65
January 20th	Giovanni Maria Lancisi	Italian physician and naturalist	65
January 20th	Angelus Paoli	Carmelite	77
January 26th	Adam Adamowitsch Willow	Russian general

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
February 6th	Johann Christoph Pfaff	Lutheran theologian and dean of the University of Tübingen	68
February 29th	François de Langes	Baron de Lubières, governor of Orange, Prussian colonel and governor of Neuchâtel

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Johann Hektor von Klettenberg	German alchemist
1st March	Heinrich van Lennep	Dutch engraver and engineer
6th March	Samuel Jenner	Swiss architect
March 11	Thomas yours	Swedish theologian	60
March 13th	Giovanni Battista Alliprandi	Baroque architect
the 14th of March	Burchard von Suhm	Saxon and Polish diplomat	53
19th March	Johann Ernst Gründler	German missionary	42
March 21st	Bernhard von Zech	Minister and writer at the Saxon court in Dresden	70
March 23	Hans Heinrich von Ahlefeldt	Privy councilor, knight of the Dannebrog Order and of the Elephant Order as well as lord of the Seestermühe estate	62
26th of March	Pietro Giovanni Guarneri	Italian violin maker from the Guarneri dynasty of Cremonese violin makers	65
March 29	Johann Christoph Schacher	German legal scholar	52
March 30	Nils Gyllenstierna	Swedish Field Marshal and Governor General of the Duchies of Bremen and Verden	71

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd of April	Joseph Dudley	Massachusetts Colonial Governor	72
April 6th	Pieter van Bloemen	Flemish painter
20th of April	Johann Wolfgang Hunter	German theologian and Chancellor of the University of Tübingen	73
April 21	Anthony Hamilton	French lieutenant general and writer of Scottish origin
April 23	Hinrich Klausing	German organ builder
April 25	Johann Rodde	German lawyer and Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck	27
26th of April	Heinrich-Jakob von Fleckenstein-Windeck	Baron
April 29	Erdmuth Dorothea of Saxony-Zeitz	Wife of Duke Christian II of Saxony-Merseburg	58

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2.May	Claude Delisle	French geographer and historian	75
May 16	Jacob Vallan	Dutch medic	82
May 18	Johann Carl Trumler	Austrian imperial court stone mason of the baroque and master builder of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
May 20th	Theodor Giou de Briou	Kurbrandenburg major general and first commander of the Gensdarmes
May 21	Christian Behrnauer	German Protestant theologian	70
May 27th	David Hoyer	German painter	52

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
14th June	Johann Zacharias Grundig	Kreuzkantor	50
June 19th	Robert Knox	English navigator	79
June 19th	César de Sabran	French bishop
June 21st	Johann Christoph Rothe	German musician and composer
June 27th	Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu	French libertine poet

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of July	Avtonom Mikhailovich Golovin	General of the infantry in the Russian Army and one of Peter the Great's confidants	52
July 4th	Johann Diecmann	German educator and Lutheran theologian	73
7th of July	Maria Barbara Bach	German singer (soprano), wife of Johann Sebastian Bach	35
16th of July	Johann Gottfried von Bequerer	Priest and official of the Archdiocese of Cologne
24th July	Kilian Stump	German Jesuit, priest and missionary to China	65
July 27th	Johann Samuel Welter	German composer	69
30th July	Justus Kelp	German Germanist and scholar
30th July	Bernhard Matfeldt	German lawyer and mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg	59
30th July	Philipp Reinhard Vitriarius	German legal scholar	73
July 31	Asmus Bremer	Mayor of Kiel

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd August	Anthonie Heinsius	Dutch statesman and councilor	78
5th of August	Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea	English poet	59
August 14th	Johann Philipp Storr	Protestant pastor in Heilbronn (1695 to 1720)
17th August	Anne Dacier	French translator and writer of Huguenot descent	66
20th of August	Johannes Sembach	German businessman, first mayor of the city of Karlsruhe
August 21	John Leake	Anglo-British admiral	64
August 25	Friedrich Wilhelm von Koenen	Royal Prussian Colonel, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 15, Baron von Zegenwerp
26th of August	Johann Christoph Volkamer	German merchant, manufacturer and botanist	76
August 30th	Leander Anguissola	Cartographer, educator, engineer and lieutenant colonel in Austrian service	67
August 30th	Jón Vídalín	Icelandic clergyman, Bishop of Skálholt	54
August 31	Johann Ernst Henfling	German businessman	29

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 3	Henri de Massue	French nobleman, general and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland	72
September 6th	Hugo Franz von Königsegg-Rothenfels	Bishop of Leitmeritz	60
7th of September	Eusèbe Renaudot	French Catholic cleric, journalist, orientalist and liturgical scholar	74
the 9th of September	Philippe de Courcillon	French officer, diplomat and author as well as the Grand Master of the Order of Lazarus	81
12th September	Johann Tennhardt	German visionary	59
September 15th	Heinrich Bode	German lawyer	68
September 18	Martin Charbonnier	German horticultural artist of the baroque
September 18	Ludwig Philipp von Wintzingerode	German nobleman, general and commander in chief of the troops in the service of the Archbishop of Mainz	55

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 10th	Antoine Coysevox	French sculptor	80
the 20th of October	Johann Adolf Clodt von Juergensburg	Swedish officer	62
23rd October	Lorenz Werder	Swiss Mayor	73
October 25	Nicolas de Fer	French cartographer and publisher
28th of October	Johann Kless	German Lutheran theologian and hymn composer	51
October	Augustine Fink	Abbot of the St. Blasien Monastery (1695 to 1720)

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 2	Johann Alexander Böner	German engraver in Nuremberg	73
November 3rd	Frederik Dekkers	Dutch medic	75
November 6th	Benno Haan	Danish art sticker
November 8th	Johann Andreas Hochstetter	Lutheran theologian	83
November 12th	Peter Wessel Tordenskiold	Danish officer	30th
November 13th	Johann Kaspar Herwarthel	German baroque builder	44
November 16	Mateo de la Mata Ponce de León	Spanish lawyer and Viceroy of Peru
November 17th	Jack Rackham	British pirate	37
November 18	Kaspar Waldmann	Austrian painter	63
25. November	Johann Henrich Reitz	German pietistic writer and Bible translator
November 26th	Johann Theodor Herold	German lutenist and composer

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 5th	Andreas Fuchs	German-Danish general, infantry inspector in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, governor of Rendsburg	79
20th of December	Anselm Schramb	Austrian Benedictine monk, historian, philologist and librarian	62
23rd of December	Benjamin Ursinus	Elector of Brandenburg court preacher, Protestant Reformed bishop	74
24th of December	Georg Friedrich Dinglinger	German painter and enameller at the court of Dresden	54
December 28th	Johann Christian New	German university professor for history and philology and university rector	52
December 29th	Maria Margaretha Kirch	German astronomer	50

Date unknown

Surname	Profession known as	Age
Pietro degli Antonii	Italian composer
Robert Bruce	Scottish general in the Russian Army
Edward England	pirate
Joachim Friedrich Haltmeier	German lawyer, cantor, author and composer
Martin Hannibal	German-Hungarian painter and draftsman, active in Sweden
Abraham Hartwich	German Protestant theologian, educator, regional historian and non-fiction author
Theodor Hecht	Margravial Baden-Durlach court printer
Nicola van Houbraken	Painter in Messina
Joachim Kayser	Organ builder	27
Johann Christoph Kayßer	German painter
Thomas Lefebvre	Painter and court architect from Baden
Margarete Lucia von Manteuffel-Kiełpiński	District Administrator, Greifenberg founder
Justus Ludwig Olthoff	Mayor of Stralsund, District Administrator and Government Councilor in Swedish Pomerania
Isidre Roi	Spanish composer, harpist and choir master
Christoph von Schwalch	Swedish lawyer and Chancellor of Swedish Pomerania
Day sepa	Tibetan regent