Nekrolog 1721
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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 |
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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 |