Nekrolog 1744

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1744 . 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	Johann Jacob Eybelwieser	Baroque painter
6th January	Christoph Friedrich von Thümen	Prussian major general, commander of Glogau and governor of Kößlin and Kasimirsburg
January 8th	Eugene Schmid	Abbot of the Waldsassen Monastery	55
13th January	Hans Caspar Werdmüller	Swiss builder, officer and politician.	80
15. January	Charles-Hubert Gervais	French conductor and composer	72
15. January	Heinrich von Suhm	Danish Schoutby Night and Governor in Danish Guinea as well as in Danish West Indies	50
January 18th	Michele Marieschi	Italian painter	33
January 20th	Richard Jones	English violinist and composer
January 23	Giambattista Vico	Italian philosopher of history and law	75
January 24th	Marie Poussepin	French nun, founder of the order and blessed	90
January 26th	Johann Friedrich Henckel	German doctor, mineralogist, metallurgist and chemist	65
January 26th	Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller	Austrian Field Marshal and Commander in Chief	60
January 28th	Christian Hölmann	German poet and medic	66
January 29th	Thomas Mansel, 2nd Baron Mansel	Welsh nobleman and politician	24

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 5th	Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer	German medic	58
February 7th	Georg Heinrich Gercken	Lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
February 10th	Christian von Herold	Prussian secret finance, war and domain council in Berlin	74
February 11th	Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi	Italian organist, conductor and composer
February 11th	Hedwig Ulrike Taube from Odenkat	Swedish countess, mistress	29
13th February	Pierre Gobert	French painter	82
14th of February	John Hadley	English astronomer and mathematician	61
February 15th	Niccolò Gualtieri	Italian doctor and naturalist	55
February 15th	František Vaclav Míča	Czech composer	49
February 15th	Hermannus Oosterdijk shaft	Dutch medic	71
February 29th	John Theophilus Desaguliers	Natural philosopher	60

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3 March	Jean Barbeyrac	Franco-Swiss lawyer, legal historian and representative of natural law	69
4th of March	Gottlieb Stolle	German polyhistor	71
the 14th of March	Johann Ulrich von König	German writer	55
19th March	Ernst Christoph Arnoldi	German legal scholar	48
March, 20th	William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale	Scottish nobleman, 5th Earl of Nithsdale
March 23	Jöran Nordberg	Swedish historian and clergyman	66
March 31	Johann Ulrich Tresenreuter	German pedagogue, philologist, philosopher and Protestant theologian	33

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Pedro Malo de Villavicencio	Spanish lawyer and colonial administrator
April 5th	Maria Crescentia Höss	Saint, Mystic, and Franciscan Superior	61
10th of April	Roman Märkl	German religious and abbot	84
11 April	Antioch Dmitrievich Kantemir	Russian poet, satirist, diplomat, and an early Enlightenment representative in Russia	35
26th of April	Domenico Sarro	Italian composer of the Neapolitan Baroque	64

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	Sophie Eleonore of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck	Princess of the gottorpschen line of the House of Oldenburg	85
May 6th	Matthias von Bülow	Braunschweig colonel and head of the regiment
May 6th	Different Celsius	Swedish astronomer, mathematician and physicist	42
May 7th	Joachim Lange	German Protestant theologian	73
May 9	Johann Samuel Beyer	German cantor and composer
10th of May	Anton von Lüneburg	Lawyer and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck	70
17th of May	Johann Kaspar Haferung	German Lutheran theologian	75
17th of May	Bonaventure Schwanthaler	Sculptor and leader of the Bavarian popular uprising in 1705	65
25. May	Carl Edzard	Prince of East Frisia	27
30th May	Alexander Pope	English poet, translator and writer	56
30th May	Marsilius Franz Sturmfeder from Oppenweiler	Southwest German nobleman	70
May	Philipp Ernst von Bardeleben	Prussian Colonel, Chief of Füselier Regiment No. 43

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
January 3rd	Karl Hermann von Brevern	Baltic German statesman	39
June 7th	Meir Eisenstadt	Austrian rabbi
8th June	Johann Volkamer	German physician and botanist	82
14th June	David Fassmann	German writer, historiographer and publicist
June 19th	Johann Ignaz Egedacher	South German organ builder
25th June	Friedrich Casimir von Gemmingen	Brandenburg-Ansbach court advisor and assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar	49
June 27th	Jean Frédéric Bernard	French author, translator, printer, publisher
June 28th	Benedict Lubricant	German Benedictine and author	62
June 29th	André Campra	French composer

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 9	Kasper Niesiecki	Polish Jesuit and heraldist	61
July 14th	Jacob Immanuel Pyra	German poet	28
17th July	Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin	French theologian and scholar	52
July 25th	Claudio Domenico Albini	Italian Roman Catholic bishop	65
July 27th	Alphonse des Vignoles	French Reformed clergyman and scientist	94

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4th of August	Philippine Elisabeth Caesar	German imperial princess	61
6th of August	Gottfried Ludwig Mencke the Elder	German legal scholar	61
August 9	James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos	British nobleman, builder and patron	71
August 9	Gottfried Balthasar Scharff	Lutheran theologian, song poet and writer of edification	68
August 10	Nicolas Gédoyn	French cleric and translator	67
August 16	Johann Jakob Badger	Swiss Protestant clergyman	77

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Friedrich Anton	Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt	52
7th of September	Karl Friedrich	Imperial Prince of Fürstenberg	30th
12th September	Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Schwedt	Prince of Prussia, non-ruling Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt	29
September 18	Lewis Theobald	British editor and author
September 18	Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki	Lithuanian hetman and grand chancellor	64
25th of September	Jakob Tillmann from Hallberg	Electoral Palatinate Court Chancellor and Minister	62

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Antonio Maria de Gennaro	Italian-Austrian court medalist and director of the royal-imperial engraving academy in Vienna
5th October	Friedrich Benedict Carpzov II.	German lawyer and legal scholar	41
October 10th	Johann Heinrich Schulze	German polymath	57
October 12th	Peter Cornelius Beyweg	Auxiliary Bishop in Speyer	74
October 17th	Giuseppe Firrao (clergyman, 1670)	Italian clergyman, diplomat of the Holy See, Bishop of Aversa and cardinal secretary of state	74
October 17th	Guarneri del Gesù	Italian violin maker	46
October 18	Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough	Childhood friend and close confidante of Queen Anne and wife of John Churchill	84
the 20th of October	Johann Christoph Lauterbach	German cartographer and engineer officer	69
October 21	Wilhelmine von Graevenitz	Mistress Eberhard Ludwig of Württemberg	58
October 22nd	Leopold Anton von Firmian	Bishop in Lavant, Seckau and Laibach, Archbishop of Salzburg	65
October 22nd	Joachim Ernst von Zimmerow	Royal Prussian Colonel, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 43
October 24th	Adam Friedrich von Flemming	Saxon imperial count and royal chamberlain	57
October 25	Christian Pescheck	German math teacher and author	68
28th of October	Johann Ehrenfried Zschackwitz	German historian and heraldist	75
October 29th	Ishida Baigan	Japanese scholar, founder of Shingaku	59
30th of October	Lambert Daniel Kastens	German and Danish organ builder
October 31	Leonardo Leo	Italian Baroque composer

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 11th	Friedrich Wilhelm von Varenne	Prussian Colonel, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 31, Canon in Halberstadt
November 13th	Johannes Nicolaus Kuhn	German architect	74
November 19th	Ambrosius Franz von Virmont	German nobleman
November 26th	Christopher Mansel, 3rd Baron Mansel	Welsh nobleman and politician
November 29th	Christoph Bernhard Crusen	German pastor and superintendent at Bremen Cathedral	67

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 4th	Justus Heinrich Dientzenhofer	Builder of the baroque period	42
December 8th	Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle	Mistress of the French King Louis XV.	27
10th of December	Adam von Weyherr	Prussian major general, chief of garrison regiment No. 5, governor of the Altmark, Drost von Bochum and heir of Schmuckentin, Wulchow and Cölpin
11th December	Hieronymus de Bock	old Catholic bishop of Haarlem
12th of December	Christoph Starke	German Protestant theologian	60
13th December	Charlotte de La Mothe-Houdancourt	French governess of the royal children of France
December 16	Maria Anna of Austria	Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Lorraine	26th
December 17th	Johanna Magdalena von Gersdorf	German hymn poet	37
19. December	Georg Olivier of Wallis	Austrian field marshal	71
21st December	Johann Georg Wolfgang	Prussian engraver
December 22	Heinrich Karl von der Marwitz	Prussian general of the infantry	64
23rd of December	Elisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon-Orléans	by marriage, Duchess of Lorraine and Princess of Commercy	68
December 27th	Johann Samuel Strimesius	German rhetorician and historian	60

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Zacharias Allewelt	Danish-Norwegian seafarer
	Isaac Arnstein	German-Austrian banker and court factor in Vienna
	Claude Balon	French dancer and choreographer
	Angelo Michele Besseghi	Italian violinist and Baroque composer
	Jean Jacques de Bougie	French field marshal
	Giovanni Giuliani	Italian-Austrian plasterer and sculptor
	Egbert van Heemskerk III	Dutch painter
	Mihai Racoviță	Prince of Moldavia and Wallachia
	Filippo Randazzo	Italian painter
	Johann Christian Rindt	Hessian organ builder
	Reinhold Carl von Rosen	Count of Bollweiler and Ettweiler, French general
	Johann Nikolaus Schäfer	German organ builder
	Christian Schumann	German Protestant pastor and hymn poet
	Nikolaus Seeländer	German engraver, numismatist and medalist
	Wolf Balthasar von Selchow	Royal Prussian Lieutenant General
	Martin Vinazer	South Tyrolean sculptor
	Georg Heinrich Werndly	German mission preacher and associate professor for oriental languages