Nekrolog 1724
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This is a list of famous people who died in 1724 . 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 2nd | Anselm Schnaus | Abbot of the Waldsassen Monastery | 53 | |
| January 5th | Polycarp Marci | German lawyer, postman and writer of opera libretti | ||
| 6th January | Joachim Ernst Sigismund von Krummensee | Prussian major general | ||
| January 12th | Daniel Müller | Lawyer and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck | ||
| January 26th | Wolferdus Senguerdius | Dutch natural philosopher | 77 | |
| January 29th | Friedrich von Derfflinger | Prussian lieutenant general | 60 |
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 February | Innocent Metz | German Benedictine and painter | ||
| February 5th | Mary Cowper | English lady-in-waiting | ||
| February 8 | Otto Ludwig von Kanitz | Colonel of the Electoral Saxon cavalry and the Polish army | 62 | |
| February 9 | Wilhelm Moritz | Prussian Privy Councilor and Count of Solms-Greifenstein and Solms-Braunfels | 72 | |
| February 12th | Elkanah Settle | English playwright | 76 | |
| 19th of February | Pieter Schuyler | Governor of the English colony of New York | 66 |
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4th of March | Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach | Duchess of Württemberg | 60 | |
| 7th March | Innocent XIII. | Pope (1721-1724) | 68 | |
| 8th of March | Enrico Zuccalli | Swiss architect, builder | ||
| 9th March | Ernst Friedrich I. | Duke of Saxony-Hildburghausen | 42 | |
| March 10th | Urban Hjärne | Swedish doctor and naturalist | 82 | |
| March 12th | François-Louis de Clermont-Tonnerre | Bishop of Langres (1696-1724) | ||
| March, 15 | Maria Johanna of Savoy | Duchess of Savoy, Countess of Geneva and regent | 79 | |
| 19th March | Johanna Eleonora Petersen | theological writer and one of the leading figures of radical pietism | 79 | |
| 19th March | Johann Christian Thomae | German historian | 55 | |
| March 22 | Joseph Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen | Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Meiningen | 17th | |
| 25th March | Lemle Moses Reinganum | Electoral Palatinate court Jew | ||
| March 30 | Georg Riedesel zu Eisenbach | 18. Hessian Hereditary Marshal | 66 | |
| March 31 | Sophia of Saxony-Weissenfels | Princess of Saxony-Weißenfels and -Querfurt and Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst | 69 |
April
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4. April | Michael Förtsch | German Lutheran theologian | 69 | |
| 9th April | Joachim Friedrich von Wreech | Brandenburg general of the cavalry | 73 | |
| April 22 | Theodor Zwinger III. | Swiss Meiziner | 65 |
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th of May | Sebastiano Antonio Tanara | Italian cardinal | 74 | |
| May 6th | Justus Corthum | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman | 71 | |
| May 7th | Johann Jacob Heber | German geodesist and cartographer | 57 | |
| May 21 | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer | British politician | 62 | |
| May 21 | Antonio Salvi | Italian librettist | 60 | |
| 28th of May | Michael Butterfield | English instrument maker |
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 10th | Ernst Wladislaus von Dönhoff | Prussian lieutenant general | 51 | |
| June 22 | Johann Theile | German composer and music teacher | 77 | |
| 23rd June | Emanuel Kegel | German composer | ||
| June | John Barnwell | Commander of the South Carolina Forces and later Representative of the South Carolina Colony | ||
| June | Johann Hugo von Wilderer | German baroque composer |
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1 | Johann Baptist Homann | German cartographer, publisher and engraver | 60 | |
| July 1 | Hermann Hövel | Mayor of Arnsberg | ||
| July 11th | Delarivier Manley | English author |
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th of August | Samson Wertheimer | Chief Rabbi, Court Factor | 66 | |
| 8th August | Christoph Ludwig Agricola | German landscape painter | 58 | |
| 18th of August | Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn | Prince-Bishop of Würzburg | 51 | |
| 20th of August | Antonio Francesco Peruzzini | Italian painter | ||
| August 23 | Sébastien Rasles | Jesuit and missionary of the Abenaki | 67 | |
| August 24th | Andreas Kneller | German composer and organist | 75 | |
| August 31 | Ludwig I. | King of Spain | 17th | |
| August | Johann Wilhelm von Efferen | Electoral Palatinate general and official |
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 19th | Glikl bas Judah Leib | German-Jewish clerk | ||
| September 20th | Ayuki | Khan of the Kalmyks on the Volga | ||
| September 20th | David von Krafft | Swedish painter | ||
| September 20th | Gurdon Saltonstall | Pastor and Governor of the Colony of Connecticut | 58 | |
| 21st September | Wilhelm II. | Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg | 54 |
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2nd | François-Timoléon de Choisy | French author | 80 | |
| October 2nd | Nicolaus Wilckens | German lawyer and archivist | 48 | |
| October 18 | Jean de Hautefeuille | French religious, abbot, physicist and inventor | 77 | |
| October 18 | Johann Osiander | German philologist, diplomat and Lutheran theologian | 67 | |
| October 18 | Johann Leopold Donat von Trautson | Austrian prince, educator and chief steward of Emperor Joseph I. | 65 | |
| the 20th of October | Christoph Johann Conrad Engelbrecht | German lawyer and university professor | 34 | |
| October 25 | Johann Ludwig Hannemann | German doctor and professor in Kiel | 84 | |
| October 26th | Johann Siegmund von Heyden | Prussian general of the cavalry, governor of Lippstadt and Drost in Wetter | ||
| October 27 | Leonard Goudhaire | Walloon-Brabant stonemason | ||
| October 29th | Weipart Ludwig von Fabrice | German diplomat and statesman in the service of Kurhannover | 84 | |
| October 29th | William Wollaston | English moral philosopher | 65 | |
| 30th of October | Mary of Lorraine | Princess of Monaco | 50 | |
| October | Giovanni Battista Camessina | Swiss baroque architect |
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 10th | Bartholomäus Crasselius | German Lutheran clergyman and hymn poet | 57 | |
| November 16 | Willem Mons | German-born confidante of Catherine I of Russia | ||
| November 16 | Jack Sheppard | English robber | 22nd | |
| November 18 | Bartolomeu de Gusmão | Portuguese Jesuit priest | ||
| November 24th | Ernst Ludwig I. | Duke of Saxe-Meiningen | 52 | |
| 25. November | Christian Ernst Mussigk | Brandenburg evangelical clergyman | 53 |
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1 | Georg Boguslav from Wobeser | Prussian general, commander in Pillau | 71 | |
| December 7th | Johann Gottfried Rösner | royal Prussian official | 66 | |
| 11th December | Joachim Friedrich Schmidt | German Lutheran theologian and general superintendent in Pomerania | 54 | |
| 12th of December | Hendrik van Deventer | Dutch obstetrician and orthopedist | 73 | |
| 13th December | Johann Michael Speicher | German official school hot | 75 | |
| December 16 | Margarete von Rohr | Wife of a Prussian knight | ||
| December 22 | Johann Christoph Ettner | German physician and novelist | ||
| 23rd of December | Franz Keller | Master builder of the Deutschordensballei Franconia | ||
| 25 December | Franz Konrad von Reinach | Knight of the Teutonic Order | ||
| 25 December | William Trent | Politician, lawyer, merchant, slave trader | ||
| December 29th | Pavlo Polubotok | Ukrainian hetman | 64 | |
| 30th of December | Eberhard Gutsleff the Elder | Baltic German pastor and Bible translator | 70 |
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Abell | Scottish singer (tenor), lutenist, composer and theater director of the Baroque era | |||
| Johann Konrad Ammann | Swiss doctor and teacher for the deaf | |||
| Guglielmo Borremans | Flemish painter | |||
| Hans Heinrich von Fersen | Estonian knighthood captain and district administrator | |||
| Isaac Feyerabend | German Mayor | |||
| Johannes Flender | German philosopher and theologian | |||
| Gottfried Grawert | Saxon major general and cartographer | |||
| Johann Wilhelm Groeninger | German sculptor | |||
| Henry Kelsey | English fur trader, sailor and explorer | |||
| Edward Low | English pirate captain | |||
| Benedetto Luti | Italian painter | |||
| James Moodie | Scottish politician, member of the House of Commons | |||
| Ludwig Karl d'Ocfort on Schedling | General and Minister of War in the Directory of the Braunau Parliament | |||
| Carl Curt from the East | District Administrator of the Osten- and Blucher district | |||
| Johann Joseph Öttlinger | Nursing commissioner in Starnberg | |||
| Daniel Quare | English watchmaker | |||
| Jean Jacques Rippert | Flute maker | |||
| Pietro Giacomo Rogeri | Italian violin maker | |||
| Franz Werner Tamm | German painter of the baroque period | |||
| János Wohlmuth | Hungarian composer and organist of the Baroque era | |||
| Jeremias Wolff | German publisher |