Nekrolog 1764

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1764 . 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 14th	Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti	Italian cardinal	79
15. January	Jan Albert Sichterman	Sailor, director and art collector	71
January 18th	Leonhard Joseph von Lamberts zu Cortenbach	Mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
January 18th	Samuel Troilius	Swedish Evangelical Lutheran theologian and clergyman, most recently Archbishop of Uppsala	57
January 24th	Charles Ramsay, 7th Earl of Dalhousie	Scottish nobleman
January 27th	Petru Pavel Aron	Bishop of Făgăraș
January	Johann Kaspar Cappel	Mayor of Elberfeld	53
January	John Gardner	British lawyer, politician and officer	66

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 6th	Ernst Bogislaus von Flemming	Prussian Major General and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 58
February 10th	Antonio Giuseppe Bossi	Italian plasterer
14th of February	Pierre Restaut	French grammarian
February 15th	Karl Weber	Swiss military engineer and archaeologist	51
February 22	Christian Benedikt Michaelis	German orientalist and Protestant theologian	84
February 23	David Splitgerber	Prussian entrepreneur and banker	80
February	Constantin Racoviță	Ruler of the Principality of Moldova and the Principality of Wallachia

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3 March	Anton Lazzaro Moro	Italian clergyman and early geologist	76
7th March	Johann Gotthard Hayberger	Austrian baroque master builder	68
March 12th	Marie Antoinette from Ahlefeldt	Monastery prioress	52
March 12th	Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend	British Whig Party politician	63
March, 15	William Ellery	British trader, lawyer and politician	62
March 16	Friedrich August Rutowski	Electoral field marshal	61
17. March	George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield	British astronomer and President of the Royal Society
27th of March	George Bogislav from Bonin	Prussian lawyer, President of the Court of Köslin	62
March 29	Johann Friedrich von Katte	Prussian Lieutenant General and Chief of the Old Prussian Cuirassier Regiment K 3
March 30	Pietro Locatelli	Italian violinist and composer	68

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 5th	Johann Andreas Boden	German historian and Lutheran theologian	61
9th April	Marco Benefial	Italian painter	79
9th April	Louis Charles de Saint-Albin	Bishop of Laon and Archbishop of Cambrai	66
10th of April	Christian Gottlob Gerber	German Lutheran theologian	77
April 13th	Nicolò Fiorenza	Italian violinist and composer of the early classical period
April 15th	Peder Horrebow	Danish astronomer	84
April 15th	Madame de Pompadour	Mistress of Louis XV.	42
17th April	Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich	German composer, organist and Kapellmeister
17th April	Johann Mattheson	German composer and scholar	82
April 28	Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer	German plasterer and Rococo sculptor

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Christoph August Heumann	Evangelical Lutheran theologian and polyhistor	82
1st of May	Johann Gottfried Pilarik	German superintendent and hymn poet	59
1st of May	Johann Ernst von Schmettau	Royal Prussian major general, chief of the cuirassier regiment No. 4 and heir to Rohrlach in Silesia
May 3rd	Francesco Algarotti	Italian philosopher and art critic	51
May 9	Johann Heinrich Preuss	Royal British and electoral Hanoverian court and chamber musician as well as concert master
10th of May	Christian Friedrich Henrici	Lyricist Johann Sebastian Bachs	64
May 14th	Johann Maximilian IV. Emanuel von Preysing	Bavarian politician
May 14th	Laurenz Zellweger	Swiss doctor, educator and historian	71
May 15	Josef Bonaventura Pitter	Bohemian monk and historian	55
May 16	Anton Landes	Bavarian Rococo plasterer	52
May 18	Adolf Nikolaus von Buccow	Austrian general of the cavalry and governor of Transylvania	52
25. May	Karl Gottfried von Knobloch	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 29, Commander of the Schweidnitz Fortress. Heir to Thieresdorf, Schubkeimen and Wanghusen	66
May 26	Peter Joseph Kofler	Mayor of Vienna	63
31. May	Johann Kamprad	Master craftsman, councilor and chronicler

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Johann Heinrich von Spreckelsen	German lawyer and Hamburg Senate Secretary	72
3rd of June	Hans Adolph Brorson	Danish bishop and one of the greatest psalm writers in Scandinavia	69
6th of June	Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel	Baroque composer
June 7th	Sophie Karoline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach	Princess of East Frisia	57
8th June	Nicolas Ferry	Court dwarf	22nd
June 11th	Christoph Stoltzenberg	German composer	74
June 11th	Johann Siegmund Strebel	German administrative officer and librarian	63
23rd June	Adam Joachim von Podewils	Prussian officer	67
25th June	Wilhelm Ernst Starke	German Reformed theologian and philologist	72
June 29th	Ralph Allen	British entrepreneur
June 30th	Theodor Boltz	German lawyer	83

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 6th	Daniel Georg von Lindstedt	Royal Prussian Major General	59
10th of July	Theodor Schneider	Priest, Jesuit, first Catholic German missionary in North America	61
10th of July	August Wilhelm von Wolff-Metternich	Canon and Minister	59
July 11th	Johann Friedrich Heintzmann	German builder (Wernigerode) and miner in the reform of the Ruhr mining industry	47
July 13th	Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger	German clergyman	48
15th of July	Ernst Ludwig Orlich	Chief Pastor to St. Michaelis in Hamburg	58
16th of July	Ivan VI	Russian emperor	23
16th of July	Heinrich Giller	Swiss businessman and member of the Moravian Brethren	62
July 19	François de Fitz-James	Duke of Fitz-James, court chaplain to Louis XV. and Bishop of Soissons (1739–1764)	55
July 19	Hagop II. Nalyan	Armenian clergyman
20th of July	Peter van Bleeck	Dutch portrait painter and engraver
July 25th	Ernst Heinrich von Langenau	Prussian colonel
30th July	Philipp Hafner	Austrian writer and literary critic	28

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 2nd	Balthasar Riepp	German baroque painter	60
August 7th	Franz Christoph Nagel	German builder of the baroque	65
8th August	Johann Philipp Harrach	Austrian Field Marshal and President of the Court War Council	85
August 22nd	Marc-Pierre d'Argenson	French nobleman and politician	68
August 28th	Johann Vogt	German theologian and historian	69

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Sebastiano Conca	Italian Baroque painter	84
September 2nd	Nathaniel Bliss	English astronomer	63
September 2nd	Pierre Le Guay de Prémontval	Roman Catholic priest and English naturalist	48
September 10	Giovanni Antonio Giay	Italian Baroque composer	74
12th September	Jean-Philippe Rameau	French composer and music theorist
13.september	Giovanni Domenico Barbieri	Swiss builder of the baroque period	60
September 14th	Wilhelm Kaspar Wegely	Prussian merchant and entrepreneur	49
16th September	Franz Josias	Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1729–1764)	66
17th of September	Gottfried Leonhard Baudis the Younger	German historian, lawyer, university lecturer and librarian	52
17th of September	Johann Christoph Struchtmeyer	German Protestant theologian	66
September 18	Jonathan Eybeschütz	Talmudist, Halachist and Kabbalist
September 18	Georg Friedrich Spitzner	Electoral Saxon civil servant	76
25th of September	Daniel Stadler	German Jesuit, confessor and advisor to the Bavarian Elector Max III. Joseph	59
September 26th	Benito Jerónimo Feijoo	Spanish religious and scholar, precursor of the Enlightenment	87
September 28th	Joachim Christian von Bandemer	Prussian major general, chief of the body carbine regiment	61
30. September	Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk	Russian envoy
September	Johann Daniel Heinbach	German fireworker, draftsman and cartographer

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 2nd	William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire	British politician, Prime Minister (1756–1757)	44
October 10th	Christoph Wilhelm von Nimschewski	Prussian colonel	46
October 13th	Johann Leonhard von Wutgenau	last imperial city commandant of Breslau and later Prussian colonel and head of the regiment	74
October 14th	Meinrad Troger	Prince Abbot of the St. Blasien Monastery (1749 to 1764)	68
the 20th of October	Johann Peter von Raesfeld	Prussian Privy Council and District President	85
the 20th of October	Hermann von Wartensleben	Prussian colonel and most recently chief of the cuirassier regiment No. 9, knight of the Order of St. John, resident commander in Lagow, canon and coadjutor of the collegiate church in Magdeburg, as well as canon and senior of the collegiate church in Brandenburg, hereditary lord on Mese	64
October 22nd	Jean-Marie Leclair	French composer and violinist	67
23rd October	Pierre-Charles Roy	French librettist
October 26th	William Hogarth	English socially critical painter and graphic artist	66

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 4th	Charles Churchill	English poet and satirist	32
November 4th	Rudolphus Leusden	Dutch medic and mayor of Utrecht
November 8th	Jerome by Ludolf	German physician and chemist	55
November 9th	Petrus Wesseling	German philologist and legal scholar	72
November 10th	Johann Ludwig Levin Gebhardi	German regional historian and genealogist	65
November 10th	Johann Heinrich Redecker	German official and (court) chamber clerk and chronicler of the city of Hanover	82
14th November	Isidore von Hoditz	Prussian Colonel and Chief of Hussar Regiment No. 6	51
15th of November	Ignaz Anton Gunetzrhainer	German builder	66
November 27th	Gottfried Geyser	German Protestant theologian	65

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Christian Goldbach	Prussian mathematician	74
11th December	Johann Heinrich Gernler	Swiss historian	37
12th of December	Johann Philipp Breyne	German botanist and zoologist	84
12th of December	Johann von Grant	Scottish officer, most recently Prussian Major General, Chief of Fusilier Regiment No. 44, Commander of the Neisse fortress
12th of December	Christian Klausing	Organ builder
13th December	Carl Ludolph von Danckelmann	Prussian Minister of State	65
15th December	Friedrich Christian von Hauss	Prussian Major General and Chief of Infantry Regiment S 55
19. December	Johann Zacharias Richter	German merchant and councilor	68
20th of December	Erik Pontoppidan the Younger	Danish theologian and author	66
December 22	Ladislaus Amade from Várkonyi	poet	61
December 26th	Ismael Mengs	German painter
December 29th	Johann Theodor Axer	Baroque sculptor

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Detlof Hans von Bassewitz	Participant in the fronde against Duke Carl Leopold, co-signatory of the Land Constitutional Compensation of Succession and German-Swedish officer
	Domenico Dall'Oglio	Italian violinist and composer of the early classical period
	Benjamin Gray	English watchmaker
	Johann Friedrich glove	German Lutheran pastor and missionary
	Jakob Küner	German entrepreneur
	Johann Martersteck	Lorraine sculptor, wood carver and altar builder
	Johannes Muller	German civil engineer
	Joseph Ignaz Saler	German gold and silversmith
	Andrea Pacini	Italian old castrato, opera singer, composer and clergyman
	Lorenz Plazid Schumacher	Conspirators, executed
	Gabriel Steinböck	Austrian imperial court stone mason of the baroque
	Jean-André Thouin	French gardener
	Johann Heinrich Tischbein	German painter
	Heinrich Gottlob von Warkotsch	Silesian nobleman in Austrian service
	Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri	Italian composer and violinist of the late baroque