Nekrolog 1755

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1755 . 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 5th	Carl Gerhard Wilhelm Lodtmann	German lawyer, historian, philosopher and university professor	34
6th January	Angelo Maria Quirini	Benedictine and cardinal	74
6th January	Christian Friedrich von Wangelin	royal Danish lieutenant general	72
January 7th	Gallus Zeiler	Benedictine, abbot and monastery composer	49
10. January	Johann Jakob Marinoni	Austrian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer of Italian origin
10. January	Christian Peters	Lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
11th January	Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer	French composer, harpsichordist and singer
January 14th	Konrad Friedrich Ernst Bierling	German Lutheran theologian	45
January 14th	Julius Valentin van Gollenesse	Governor General of Ceylon	63
January 14th	Christoph Friedrich Plathner	Legal counsel in Goslar; Count Palatine and Royal Prussian Councilor	83
15. January	Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaia	Italian composer	83
January 16	Gottfried Boy	German portrait painter	53
January 16	Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy	French lawyer	80
January 18th	Johann Rudolph Engau	German legal scholar	46
January 19th	Gregory II. Fuchs	German Benedictine abbot	88
January 27th	Sámal Pætursson Lamhauge	Faroese politician, Løgmaður of the Faroe Islands (1706–1752)
January 28th	André Falquet	Swiss businessman	73

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Anselm Christoph von Bonin	Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general; Commander of Magdeburg (since 1747)	69
February 7th	Giovanni Gaetano Androi	Baroque plasterer
February 8	Niccolò Coscia	Italian clergyman, bishop and cardinal of the Roman Church	73
February 10th	Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu	French writer and state philosopher
February 11th	Scipione Maffei	Italian poet	79
20. February	Franz Ignatius Rothfischer	German theologian and professor of philosophy at the University of Helmstedt
February 25	Edmé-François Mallet	French theologian and encyclopedist	42
February 28	Heinrich Gottfried Zopff	Mediciners	62

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Maria Anna Josepha Althann	Wife of Johann Michael von Althann, patron and confidante of Karl VI.	65
2nd March	Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon	French politician and writer	80
5. March	George of Hessen-Kassel	Prince of Hessen-Kassel and Prussian general	64
6th March	Pier Leone Ghezzi	Italian painter, etcher and draftsman	80
8th of March	Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov	Russian explorer and geographer	43
March 10th	Johann David Koehler	German historian, numismatist and heraldist	71
March 10th	Friedrich Otto von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld	Prussian Lieutenant General and Chief of the Dragoon Regiment No. 2
March 16	Christian Albrecht von Ahlefeldt	noble lord and district administrator in Holstein
March 24th	Theodor Christlieb Reinhold	German composer	72
25th March	Ludwig von l'Hospital	Commander of Memel and Chief of Garrison Battalion No. 1
March 29	August Heinrich von Friesen	Grandson of August II of Saxony, Saxon and French general	27
March 29	Franz Ludwig Steiger	magistrate	50
March 31	Girolamo Baruffaldi	Italian clergyman, historian and poet	79
March	Jeremias Papke	German mathematician and Protestant theologian	82

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of April	Jean-Baptiste Oudry	French painter	69
7th of April	Laurentius Blumentrost the Younger	Russian medic	62
12. April	Johann Ferdinand I of Kuefstein	Austrian count, diplomat and governor of Lower Austria
April 14th	Wolfgang Magnus Gebhard	Nuremberg draftsman and engraver	71
April 15th	Andreas Ritter	German theologian, professor at the University of Greifswald and provost on Rügen	73
17th April	Christian Nicolaus von Linger	Prussian general	86
April 25	Franz Balthasar von Lindern	Franco-German doctor and botanist	73
April 28	Carl Gottlob von Goldstein	Councilor and Chief Forester	77
April	Anastasia Robinson	English opera singer

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 4th	Ignazio Visconti	Superior General of the Societas Jesu (Jesuit Order)	72
12th of May	Johann Philipp Lefèvre	German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
May 14th	Heinrich Siegmund von Vippach and Mark-Vippach	royal Prussian colonel	43
May 16	Karl Sigmund Friedrich Wilhelm Leutrum von Ertingen	German general in Sardinian service	62
May 20th	Johann Georg Gmelin	German Siberian explorer	45
May 22	Ignazio Giuseppe Bertola Roveda	Piedmontese fortress builder
May 26	Louis mandrin	French robber captain	30th
May 27th	Ulrich von Löwendal	General and Marshal of France	55
28th of May	Johann Esgers	Dutch Reformed theologian	58

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 4th	Henri François-Xavier de Belsunce-Castelmoron	French bishop of Marseilles	83
June 10th	Johann Christoph Mocker	German organ builder
June 12	Hadrian Daude	German Jesuit, theologian and historian	50
14th June	Albert Georg Schwartz	German philosopher, professor and rector of the University of Greifswald (1735)	68
June 21st	Claude Bouhier	French bishop	73
June 21st	Giovanni Porta	Italian composer and violinist
23rd June	Johann Caspar Bachofen	Swiss composer and music teacher	59
June 26th	Iyasu II.	Negus Negest (Emperor) of Ethiopia	32
June	George Ballard	English writer, historian and antiquarian
June	Thomas Geraldino	Spanish diplomat, Ambassador of Spain to the United Kingdom (1731–1739)

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd July	Stanislaus Wülberz	German Benedictine and historian	59
July 6th	Pietro Paolo Bencini	Italian baroque composer
8th of July	Johann Bernhard Hahn	German oriental philologist and Protestant theologian	70
July 9	Johann Gottlob Harrer	German composer and Thomas Cantor
July 9	Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu	Canadian-French officer	43
July 13th	Edward Braddock	Commander in chief of British forces in North America at the start of the French and Indian War
17th July	Marie Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf	Abbess of the Quedlinburg Abbey	77
20th of July	Balthasar Andreas Spitzner	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian	76
22nd of July	Georg Erhard Hamberger	German doctor	57
July 25th	Johan Browall	Swedish doctor, botanist, politician and bishop	47

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd August	Johann Christian Leopold	German engraver and publisher in Augsburg
4th of August	Johann Christoph Thielemann	German organ builder	73
5th of August	Solomon Deyling	German Protestant theologian	77
6th of August	August Ludwig	Prince of Anhalt-Koethen	58
6th of August	Johann Kaspar Wetzel	German Protestant theologian, hymnologist and hymn poet	64
August 14th	Jean-Baptiste Anet	French composer and violinist of the Baroque period	79
15th of August	Robert Leeb	Austrian Cistercian and 55th abbot of Heiligenkreuz Abbey	66
August 22nd	Elias Hill	German-Austrian stonemason and judge	74
August 24th	Christian Franz Dietrich von Fürstenberg	Canon, Reichshofsrat and Erbdrost	66
August 25	Franz Joseph von Wiser	Electoral Palatinate court official and diplomat	76
August	Annibale Antonini	Italian Romance philologist, translator, grammarian and lexicographer
August	Felice Salimbeni	Italian castrato

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 2nd	Marie Zéphyrine	Princess of France, daughter of Louis Ferdinand de Bourbon, dauphin de Viennois	5
7th of September	Werner von der Schulenburg	Danish Minister of War and Field Marshal	76
September 8th	Hendrick Theyanoguin	Chief, speaker
the 9th of September	Johann Lorenz von Mosheim	theologian	61
September 14th	Maria Celeste Crostarosa	Italian nun, mystic and founder of the order	58
21st September	Johan Cornelius Krieger	Danish architect and garden artist
September 22	Bernard Stuart	Scottish Benedictine priest, scientist and watchmaker	49
30. September	Francesco Durante	Italian composer	71

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Louis Auguste II. De Bourbon, duc du Maine	Duke of Maine and Prince of Dombes	55
4th of October	Samuel of Cocceji	German lawyer and Grand Chancellor	75
4th of October	Georg Christian von Lobkowitz	Austrian field marshal	69
October 6th	Amschel Moses Rothschild	Ancestor of the Rothschild family
October, 16th	Hans Moritz von Brühl	Real Privy Councilor, Chief Equestrian, General of the Cavalry and Governor of the Thuringian Ballei	61
October, 16th	Gerhard Majella	Italian lay brother and Roman Catholic saint	29
October 18	Erich Matthias von Nolcken	Swedish government official and diplomat	61
October 19th	Gebhard Christian Bastineller	German legal scholar	66
October 21	Christian	Landgrave of Hessen-Wanfried, later Hessen-Eschwege-Rheinfels	66
October 22nd	Christian Gottfried von Uchtländer	Prussian major general, chief of infantry regiment No. 30, commandant of Stettin, governor of Draheim
October 27	Johann Michael Breunig	German composer of the late baroque	56
28th of October	Joseph Bodin de Boismortier	French flutist and harpsichordist	65

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 6th	Franz Ulrich Ries	Protestant theologian and university professor	60
November 7th	Kaspar Wilhelmseder	Mayor of the City of Salzburg
November 19th	Ernst Christoph of Nassau	Prussian Lieutenant General and holder of the Order of the Black Eagle
25. November	Johann Georg Pisendel	German violinist and high baroque composer	67
November 27th	Anastassija Trubetskaya	Russian Hereditary Princess of Hesse-Homburg	55
November 28th	Peter Ernst von Podewils	Prussian Colonel and Commander of the Friedrichsburg Citadel
30th of November	Johann Elias Bach	German composer from the Bach family	50
November	Francisco Antonio de Almeida	Portuguese composer

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Maurice Greene	English composer and organist	59
2. December	Marianus Brockie	Scottish Catholic theologian, philosopher and Benedictine
December 5th	Daniel Willi	Swiss reformed clergyman and pietist	59
6th of December	Heinrich Günther Gottfried von Bosse	royal Prussian lieutenant general	75
December 8th	Jean-Baptiste Stuck	French cellist and composer	75
9th of December	Francisco José de Ovando	Spanish soldier, governor of Chile and the Philippines
12th of December	Johann Gottfried Riedel	Painter, restorer, gallery inspector
15th December	Pietro Luigi Carafa	Italian cardinal	78
December 16	Valentin Johann Beselin	German lawyer and mayor of Rostock	62
21st December	Caspar Ruetz	German cantor and composer	47
21st December	Manuel de Sumaya	Mexican composer
December 29th	Daniel Archinard	Preacher and pastor	57
December 29th	Johann Friedrich Gauhe	German genealogist	74
December 29th	Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve	French writer	70
30th of December	Johann Friedrich Weidler	German mathematician and legal scholar	64
December 31	Friedrich Wilhelm year	German Lutheran theologian	48
December 31	Johann Florence Rivinus	German legal scholar	74

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as
	Rosa Bavarese	German opera singer (soprano) and Bavarian electoral chamber singer
	Kathog Rigdzin Chenpo Tshewang Norbu	Nyingmapa clergyman, author of a Gungthang royal genealogy
	Andreas Kölle	Austrian sculptor
	Hieronymus Löschenkohl	German wholesale merchant and banker
	Johann Matthäus Oberschall	German sculptor
	Johann Jakob Rischer	German baroque architect
	Joost van Sasse	Painter, engraver, steel engraver, eraser
	Eleonore von Schlieben	Lady-in-waiting of the Prussian Queen Elisabeth Christine
	Johann Gottlieb Siegel	German legal scholar
	Johann Georg Siegesbeck	German doctor and botanist
	Philipp Stamma	Syrian chess player
	Zhang Tingyu	Han Chinese politician in the Qing Dynasty
December	Johann Bösewiel	German author and bailiff of the Uetersen bailiwick