Nekrolog 1757

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1757 . 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
6th January	Bernhard Friedrich von Ahlimb	Prussian officer, commander of the Magdeburg Fortress
January 9th	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle	French author	99
11th January	Louis-Bertrand Castel	French Cartesian, opponent of the Newtonian system	68
13th January	Franz Ulrich von Kleist	Prussian lieutenant general	68
January 17th	Johann Sebastian Koch	German singer	67
January 20th	Antonio Francesco Gori	Italian archaeologist and priest	65
21th January	Johann Georg Etgens	Moravian baroque painter
22nd of January	Philipp Wilhelm von Hutten to the Stolzenberg	German canon	55
January 23	Joseph III	Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (Patriarchate of Diyarbakir)
January 24th	Francesco Robba	Italian baroque sculptor	58
January 25th	Octavio Piccolomini	Duke of Amalfi, imperial general, imperial prince and ruler of the Náchod rule in Eastern Bohemia	58
January 26th	René Louis d'Argenson	French politician, diplomat and man of letters	62

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Beat Holzhalb	Swiss Pietist	64
February 8	Bernd Siegmund from Blankensee	royal Prussian major general, governor and Drost von Ravensberg and heir to Schlagenthin	63
February 10th	Johann von Pechlin	Schleswig-Holstein statesman
February 11th	Mauro D'Alay	Italian violinist and late baroque composer
21st of February	Georg Franz Ebenhech	German sculptor, plasterer, ivory carver
February 25	Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani	Italian composer and priest
February 25	Johann Konrad Sigismund Topp	German legal scholar and professor at the University of Helmstedt	64

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Edward Moore	English playwright and writer	44
4th of March	Franz Singer	Austrian builder	55
6th March	Adolf Friedrich von Langermann	Prussian major general, chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 8, heir to Dombrowken, Rasenau and Rosochen	63
6th March	Franz Konrad von Stadion and Thannhausen	Prince-Bishop of Bamberg	77
March 10th	Johann Joseph von Trautson	Archbishop of Vienna and Cardinal	49
March 12th	Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena	Architect, set designer	61
the 14th of March	John Byng	British admiral and politician
19th March	Giovanni Oliva	Italian archaeologist and bibliographer	67
March, 20th	Johann Paul Kunzen	German composer and organist	60
March, 20th	Siegmund Ehrenfried von Oppel	Chancellor, Chamber President, Privy Council President	69
28th March	Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock	Prussian field marshal	85
28th March	Robert François Damiens	French assassin	42
March 30	Peter Heinrich Erdmann from Bandemer	Prussian major and commander of a grenadier battalion
March 30	David Jürgen von Graevenitz	Prussian lieutenant general and governor of Küstrin	76
March 30	Johann Stamitz	Bohemian violinist, conductor and composer
March	Matthäus Seutter	German cartographer and engraver as well as founder of the printing house and the Seutter publishing house	78

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4. April	Maurus Xaverius Autumn	Benedictine and abbot of the Plankstetten monastery	55
April 8th	Johann Jakob Schmauß	German lawyer, historian and university professor	67
11 April	Carlo Ginori	Italian politician and entrepreneur	55
12. April	Dietrich Ehrhard von Knobloch	Prussian major general, chief of infantry regiment No. 10, heir of Glittehnen, Wanguthen and Neufrost
April 15th	Rosalba Carriera	Italian painter	81
April 15th	Franz Joseph Spiegler	South German baroque painter	66
April 16	Daniel Gran	Austrian baroque painter	62
April 19th	Ludwig Imbert du Rosey	Prussian district administrator
April 25	Bernhard Asmus from Zastrow	Prussian major general
April 28	Bartholomäus I of Tinti	Austrian court official	95
April 29	Frédéric-Jérôme de la Rochefoucauld de Roye	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	55
April, 30th	Johann Anton II of Freyberg	Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt	82

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2.May	Hartwig Karl von Wartenberg	royal Prussian major general	46
May 6th	Georg Friedrich of Amstel	Prussian major general, commandant of the fortress Stettin	67
May 6th	Friedrich Wilhelm III.	Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck	33
May 6th	Balthasar Friedrich von der Goltz	Prussian colonel and commander of Regiment No. 33 and a grenadier battalion	48
May 6th	Georg Friedrich von Manstein	Prussian officer, most recently Colonel Frederick the Great
May 6th	Kurt Christoph von Schwerin	Prussian Field Marshal General	72
May 11th	Meno Nicolaus Carstens	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor at Lübeck Cathedral	55
May 11th	Georg Friedrich Deinlein	German legal scholar	60
May 11th	Heinrich Karl Ludwig Herault de Hautcharmoy	Huguenot and Prussian general
May 14th	Bartolomeo Cordans	Italian Baroque composer	59
May 16	Emanuel von Schöning	Prussian major general, chief of an infantry regiment No. 46, governor in Köslin	66
17th of May	Michael Alberti	German physician, physicist and philosopher	74
May 27th	Christian Friedrich von Blanckensee	Prussian Major General, Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 2	40
30th May	Meinhard Plesken	German Lutheran theologian, consistorial councilor and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Lüneburg-Celle	60
May	Peter Silberberg	Mayor of Elberfeld	69

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 4th	Johann Ernst von Alemann	Prussian cavalry general
June 5th	Bernhardine Christiane Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach	Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt	33
June 10th	Benedikt von Ahlefeldt	Landlord of the Holstein estates of Jersbek and Stegen	78
June 10th	Christoph Treutmann	German organ builder
June 11th	Martin Aumüller	Bohemian sculptor and wood carver
June 11th	Matthäus Terwesten	Dutch baroque painter	87
June 12	Christoph Gabriel Fabricius	German Lutheran theologian	73
June 13th	Johann Samuel Carl	German medic
14th June	Eberhard von Gemmingen	Lieutenant Colonel, landlord in Rappenau	44
June 16	Johann Friedrich Behrendt	German educator and librarian
18th of June	Johann Friedrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld	Royal Prussian Colonel, Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 41	61
18th of June	Christian Siegfried von Krosigk	Royal Prussian Major General, Commander of Dragoon Regiment No. 5	57
18th of June	Richard Daniel von Münchow	Prussian military and nobleman
June 24th	Joseph Merry	Court jester of August the Strong	63
June 24th	Johannes Schübler	Mayor of Heilbronn	71
June 26th	Maximilian Ulysses Browne	Austrian field marshal of Irish descent	51
June 27th	Christoph Hermann von Manstein	Prussian major general	45
June 28th	Daniel Gottlieb von Bülow	Prussian colonel and commander
June 28th	Jacques Dedelley	Swiss Jesuit, theologian and philosopher	63
June 28th	Sophie Dorothea of Hanover	Queen of Prussia and wife of the soldier king, Friedrich Wilhelm I (Prussia)	70
June	Georg Ernst von Nettelhorst	Prussian Colonel, Chief of Garrison Regiment No. 8

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Andreas Albrecht von Brömbsen	Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck	54
2nd July	Johanna Elisabeth of Baden-Durlach	Duchess of Württemberg	76
July 4th	Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten	German Protestant theologian	51
5th July	Jean-Joseph Vadé	French composer and writer	38
7th of July	Philipp Caspar Lamprecht	German legal scholar and councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
7th of July	Friedrich August von Wulffen	Prussian colonel
8th of July	Daniel Parke Custis	american planter	45
July 11th	Michael Friedrich Quade	German Protestant theologian and schoolboy	74
July 12	Johann Christoph Sysang	German engraver	54
15th of July	Johann Caspar Bagnato	German builder of the baroque age
July 23	Domenico Scarlatti	Italian Baroque composer	71
July 28th	Wolfgang Andreas Heindl	Austrian fresco painter

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd August	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich	Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach	45
5th of August	Antoine Pesne	French painter, court painter in Prussia	74
6th of August	Adam Manyoki	Hungarian painter
August 14th	Melchior von Diezelsky	Prussian major
August 14th	Johann Adam Melsheimer	Forester and horse hunter from the Palatinate in the Soonwald	74
17th August	Joachim Wilhelm von Klinggräff	Prussian diplomat
17th August	Fridolin Kopp	Swiss Benedictine monk, prince abbot of the Muri monastery	65
18th of August	Daniel Gottlieb Thebesius	German physician and local politician	50
August 21	Johann Samuel King	German mathematician	45
August 27	Jonathan Friedrich von Finck	Prussian Major General and Commander of the Peitz Fortress
August 27	Christian Eberhard Niemeyer	German bailiff in Lauenstein	81
August 28th	David Hartley	English philosopher and psychologist	52
August 30th	Henning Bernd von der Goltz	Prussian major and knight of the order Pour le Mérite	38
August 31	Jonathan Belcher	British governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New Jersey	75
August	Johann Heinrich Mueslin	Swiss Pietist	75

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Heinrich Rust	Lübeck businessman, councilor and mayor
September 3	Anna Catharina von Passow	Danish actress and author	26th
September 3	Giulio Pontedera	Italian botanist	69
September 4th	Franz Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Hacke	Baron, privy councilor of the Electoral Palatinate and envoy in Vienna
September 6th	James Dawkins	British archaeologist and Member of the House of Commons
September 8th	Franz Carl Friedrich von Hohenfeld	Catholic priest, dean of the cathedral and governor of the prince-bishop in Worms	60
September 8th	Hans Karl von Winterfeldt	Prussian general and intimate friend Friedrich II.	50
September 10	Johann Gottfried Hornejus	Protestant theologian and general superintendent in Western and Western Pomerania (1733–1757)	68
September 11	Andreas Johann Persode de Dommangeville	Prussian major general, chief of infantry regiment No. 33, governor of Ragnit
13.september	Paul Ernst Jablonski	German Reformed theologian and orientalist	63
13.september	Franz Pacák	bohemian sculptor (baroque and rococo)	43
September 18	Balthasar Lutter	Violinist and Royal British and Electoral Hanover Court Kapellmeister	59
September 19th	Christian Friedrich Hempel	Lawyer, biographer and editor
September 19th	Johann Wilhelm Marckart	German lawyer and university professor
21st September	Amarsanaa	Jungar prince
September 23rd	Florentinus Reinking	Priest and abbot of the Marienfeld monastery
September 24th	Aaron Burr, Sr.	American clergyman, President of the College of New Jersey	41
25th of September	Johann Christoph Sauer	first German book printer in North America
September 26th	Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen	Director of the knight canton of Kraichgau, owned Fürfeld and half of Guttenberg Castle, Neckarmühlbach, Hüffenhardt and Kälbertshausen	81
September 28th	Andrea Zani	Italian composer and violinist of the late baroque	60
September 29th	Heinrich Gottlieb Schellhaffer	German philosopher, poet and professor of moral philosophy	50

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 2nd	Luigi Centurioni	Superior General of the Societas Jesu (Jesuit Order)	71
October 2nd	Johann Adam Groß the Elder	German builder	59
October 2nd	Simon Pelloutier	German historian and antiquarian	62
October 3	Georg Abbot	Swiss Protestant clergyman	41
5th October	Karl Erhard von Kalnein	Prussian Lieutenant General of the Infantry and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 4.	70
8th October	Christiane Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Kulmbach	Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen	23
October 11th	Zacharias Hildebrandt	Organ builder
October 13th	Johann Volprecht Riedesel zu Eisenbach	Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 41
October 17th	René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur	French scientist and entomologist	74
October 24th	Augustin Simnacher	German organ builder	69
October 25	Augustin Calmet	Theologian, Benedictine abbot	85
October 25	Anton Sturm	Baroque and Rococo sculptors in the Allgäu	67
28th of October	Giovanna Astrua	Italian opera singer
30th of October	Osman III	Sultan of the Ottoman Empire	58
30th of October	Edward Vernon	Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy	72

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 3rd	George Monro	British officer
November 5th	Johann Christoph von Prignitz	Prussian military, commander of infantry regiment No. 5	57
November 6th	François de Broglie	French general, Count of Revel	37
November 7th	Philipp von Stosch	German diplomat, antiquarian, numismatist and gemologist	66
November 8th	Pierre Prowo	German composer and organist	60
November 11th	Deep Singh	Indian martyr of the Sikh religion	75
November 12th	Colley Cibber	British theater director, impresario, playwright and poet	86
November 16	Johann Christian Bolten	German doctor	29
November 16	Karl Aemilius von Katte	Prussian Major General, Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 4
November 16	Giovanni Giacomo Millo	Cardinal of the Roman Church	62
November 17th	Maria Josepha of Austria	Archduchess of Austria, wife of the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland	57
20th November	Johann Christoph Schaupp	German gemstone cutter and medalist	72
21st November	Johann Konrad Brandenstein	German organ builder	62
22nd of November	Johann Ludwig von Ingersleben	Prussian officer, most recently major general	54
22nd of November	Friedrich Ludwig von Kleist	Prussian major general
November 23	Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer	Organ builder
November 23	Valentin Bodo from the East	Prussian colonel and chief of the first field artillery battalion	57
25. November	Ildephons Barth	Bavarian abbot of Weißenohe Abbey	59
November 27th	Franz Xaver Andreas von Praidlohn	electoral Bavarian real secret state chancellor

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Johann Leonhard Prey	German architect and stonemason
2. December	Kaspar Ernst von Schultze	Prussian lieutenant general of the infantry, commander of Breslau and director of the royal knight academy in Liegnitz	66
December 5th	Johann Ernst Hebenstreit	German medic	54
December 5th	Heinrich Detlef von Kalben	Leader of a Prussian free battalion
11th December	Fortunato Chelleri	German-Italian conductor and composer
12th of December	Kaspar Friedrich von Rohr	Royal Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 47	55
December 22	Ludwig Friedrich Göler of Ravensburg	Imperial knight and bailiff	50
23rd of December	Franz Anton Grieshaber	German bell founder, creator of the chimes in Salem	32
30th of December	Andreas Faulhaber	Chaplain and martyr of the former County of Glatz	44

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Alphonse Marie Louis de Saint-Sévérin d'Aragon	French diplomat and minister
	Robert Balfour, 5th Lord Balfour of Burleigh	Scottish lord, Jacobite and murderer
	Hans Georg Benda	Bohemian linen weaver and musician as well as the progenitor of the musician family Benda
	Pleikard Dietrich von Gemmingen	Palatine-Simmerian chief bailiff
	Joel ben Uri Heilprin	Galician thaumaturge
	João da Hornay	Ruler of the Topasse, Captain General of Solor and Timor
	Kelsang Gyatsho	seventh Dalai Lama
	Jacob Johann Koehler	Estonian printer
	Johannes Kohlhaas the Elder	German organ builder
	François Martin	French cellist and composer of the early classical period
	Bernhard Meyer	Mayor of Elberfeld
	Joan Frederik Nilant	Dutch teacher and lawyer
	Charles you Ry	German builder and architect
	Peter Schmalwieser	Secret Protestant
	Nathanael Sendel	German doctor, naturalist
	Christian Wilhelm Volland	German Lutheran theologian
	Burkard Zamels	German baroque sculptor