Nekrolog 1721

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1721 . 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 1st	Amy Buisson	Swiss general in foreign service	71
6th January	Theodor Dassov	Linguist and Protestant theologian	72
6th January	Melchior Leydecker	Dutch Reformed theologian	78
11th January	Johann Ernst Schaper	German physician and Mecklenburg politician	52
January 16	Magnus von Wedderkop	German legal scholar, Schleswig-Holstein statesman and politician	83
January 18th	Otto von Schlabrendorf	royal Prussian general of infantry, governor of the fortress Küstrin	70
22nd of January	Bernhard von Sanden the Younger	German Lutheran theologian	54
January 23	Christian Koppe	Berlin city governor and councilor
January 25th	Robert Challe	French traveler and writer	61
January 26th	Pierre Daniel Huet	French Roman Catholic bishop and scholar	90
January	Wolfgang Wilhelm Heberer	Imperial Count Palatinate, multiple high dignitaries of the Holy Roman Empire	61
January	Ernst Christoph Hochmann von Hochenau	German pietist

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Johann Tobias Gottfried Trost	Central German organ builder
February 4th	Heinrich Mylius	German medic	24
February 5th	James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope	British statesman and nobleman
February 7th	Nicolas-Joseph Foucault	French administrator and collector of antiques	78
February 7th	Daniel Vetter	German organist and composer
14th of February	Anton Günther von Münnich	German dikemaster	70
February 16	Johann David von Palm	German banker and court chamber councilor	63
21st of February	Christoph Heinrich Amthor	German baroque poet and economist
February 22	Johann Christoph Bach III	German town musician and organist	49
February 23	Thomas August von Grote	Prussian lieutenant general of the cavalry, chamberlain	66
February 24th	John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby	English statesman and poet	72

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
9th March	Johann Kayser	Westphalian poet, preacher and high school teacher
March 12th	Johannes Luyts	Dutch mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and physicist	65
March 13th	Caspar Gottlob von Rodewitz	German sculptor	41
March, 15	Louise of Mecklenburg	Princess of Mecklenburg; Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage	53
19th March	Clement XI.	Pope (1700–1721)	71
March 24th	Michael I. Esterházy de Galantha	Hungarian statesman	49
March 29	Charles Vane	pirate
March	Johann Pöllandt	German sculptor

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
10th of April	Joachim Gerstenbüttel	German baroque composer
11 April	Philipp Peter Guden	German Lutheran theologian, consistorial councilor and general superintendent
April 13th	Johann van Ghelen	Flemish printer who worked mainly in Vienna
April 14th	Michel Chamillart	French billiards player and Minister of State for War	69
17th April	Tobias Balthasar Hold	Mayor of Timisoara
20th of April	Louis Laguerre	French painter
April 21	Dorothea Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg	German abbess	57
April 22	Karl Friedrich	Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg	52
26th of April	Karl Arnd	German Protestant theologian	47
April 27	Eva von Buttlar	German mystery	50
April 28	Mary Read	English pirate and privateer
April, 30th	Philibert d'Herwarth	Franco-British diplomat	76

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	Georg Heinrich Sappuhn	German pastor and teacher	61
8th of May	Marc René d'Argenson	French statesman	68
10th of May	Christian Wilhelm	Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen	74
May 16	Wilhelm Erasmus Arends	Protestant pastor and hymn poet	44
May 18	David III	Negus Negest (Emperor) of Ethiopia
May 27th	Christoph von Hellwig	German doctor, inventor of the centenary calendar	57
May	Anton Siebel	Mayor of Elberfeld	51

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 4th	Johann Joseph Scheubel I.	Franconian painter
6th of June	Joseph I. Esterházy de Galantha	Hungarian nobleman and Habsburg master councilor	33
June 10th	Johann Hermann von Elswich	German Lutheran theologian	36
June 11th	Johann David Slater	German theologian, orientalist and hymn poet	48
17th of June	Michael Erich Franck	German novelist	29
17th of June	Matwei Petrovich Gagarin	Russian nobleman, first governor of Siberia
18th of June	Philip	Landgrave of Hessen-Philippsthal from the House of Hessen (1663–1721)	65
June 21st	Johann Christoph Müller	German cartographer and astronomer	48
23rd June	Ernst Christoph von Koppelow	Secret council and Mecklenburg manor owner	61
25th June	Francesco Mitta	Italian baroque architect in Lower Saxony	58
June 28th	Isaac Sailmaker	Dutch painter who worked in England

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of July	Hermann von Brevern	German-Baltic lawyer	57
8th of July	Elihu Yale	British businessman, founder of Yale University	72
July 11th	Hermann Bilderbeke	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck	72
July 12	Antonio Giannettini	Italian organist, conductor and composer
July 18th	Antoine Watteau	French painter	36
July 26th	Samuel Jacobi	German cantor and composer
July 28th	Nureddin al-Jerrahi	Islamic mystic and founder of the Jerrahi Tariqa (Jerrahi Dervish Order)	43

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd August	Grinling gibbons	Dutch sculptor	73
5th of August	Louis Counet	Liège baroque painter
8th August	Stefan Kazó	Theologian, archdeacon and titular bishop
August 9	Wolf Christoph Zorn from Plobsheim	German Baroque architect	55
August 16	Christian Friedrich Hunold	German poet	40
17th August	Johann Wolter	Lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
August 30th	Hans Conrad Heidegger	Zurich politician	72
August 31	John Keill	British mathematician and physicist	49
August	Jacques Paisible	French recorder player and composer
August	Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuß	German composer and cantor	46

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 3	Johann Anton Losy of Losinthal	Bohemian composer and lutenist
September 6th	Georg Wolfgang Wedel	German medic	75
7th of September	Bernhard Friedrich Albinus	German medic	68
September 8th	Henri Arnaud	French soldier, pastor and Waldensian leader	78
the 9th of September	Elisabeth Dorothea of Hessen-Darmstadt	Landgrave of Hessen-Homburg	45
September 11	Rudolf Jacob Camerer	German botanist and physician	56
13.september	Domenico Boscho	Italian plasterer
September 15th	Caspar Grass	Swiss Reformed pastor, theologian and Bible translator	82
17th of September	Marguerite Louise d'Orléans	by marriage to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany	76
September 18	Matthew Prior	English writer and diplomat	57

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Peter Boye Johannsen	royal Danish colonel and chief of the 4th Danish Infantry Regiment	54
October 2nd	Benoît Audran the Elder	French engraver	59
4th of October	Abraham Alewijn	Lawyer, playwright, poet and songwriter	56
8th October	Armand Bazin de Bezons	French bishop and archbishop	66
October 11th	Anton Florian	Prince of Liechtenstein	65
October 14th	Barthold enemy	German poet of opera texts and satires
October 22nd	Adam Rechenberg	Lutheran theologian	79
23rd October	Samuel Frisching	Mayor of the City and Republic of Bern	83
October 26th	Georg August	German prince	56
28th of October	Johann Conrad Vogel	Organ builder from Upper Palatinate	64

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 5th	Erdmann from Glasenapp	royal Prussian major general	61
November 7th	Jobst Scholten	Engineer officer, commander of the Danish army, governor general of Western Pomerania and Rügen
November 8th	Catharina Margaretha Linck	German button maker, calico printer and soldier who posed as a man
November 10th	Christian Detlev zu Rantzau	Imperial Count of the Imperial County of Rantzau
November 12th	Étienne Picart	French engraver	89
21st November	Christian Romstet	German engraver	81
November 24th	Gustav Gabriel Appelmann	Swedish artillery officer, lieutenant general	65
November 24th	Maximilian Friedrich Casimir von Knigge	German nobleman and court marshal of Courland	68
November 28th	Cartouche	French criminal

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th of December	Christoph Friedrich von Beneckendorff	Brandenburg Major General
11th December	Amalia Maria Therese von Pfalz-Sulzbach	Princess from the House of Wittelsbach and Carmelite	70
12th of December	Joseph Greissing	German builder	57
13th December	Alexander Selkirk	Scottish navigator and adventurer
23rd of December	Johann Daniel Bütemeister	German Lutheran theologian and general superintendent	60
December 28th	Friedrich von Proeck	German officer general of the infantry Kurbrandenburg

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Jonas Casimir von Auer	Prussian colonel, chief of infantry regiment No. 9 and lord of the Pilshöfen
	Bidil	Persian-speaking poet, master of the Indian style
	Clemente Caraccioli	Muslim and Christian copyist
	Gelasius of Cilia	German Augustinian monk
	Egoku Dōmyō	Zen monk and early Japanese convert to Ōbaku-shū
	Christian Anton Philipp Knorr von Rosenroth	German lawyer and poet
	Matthys naive	Dutch painter
	Ngawang Tsondru	Tibetan Buddhist minister, founder of Labrang Monastery, 1st Jamyang Shepa
	Carl Gustav Roos	Swedish baron and general of the Swedish infantry
	Franz Kaspar von Schmid	Aibling nurse during the Bavarian popular uprising (1705)
	Karl Heinrich zu Waldburg	Prussian civil servant
	Francisco Ximénez	Spanish Dominican monk and historian
	Zinat un-nisa	Mughal Princess