Nekrolog 1768
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This is a list of famous people who died in 1768 . 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 1st | Jean Restout | French neoclassicist painter | 75 | |
| January 1st | William Rowley | British admiral | ||
| January 2nd | Johann Simonis | German Protestant theologian and orientalist | 69 | |
| 10. January | Johann Christian Paurnfeind | Mayor of the City of Salzburg | ||
| January 12th | Johann IX. Philipp von Walderdorff | German Archbishop and Elector | 66 | |
| January 14th | Giuseppe Simone Assemani | Lebanese orientalist | ||
| January 18th | Karl Adam Heinrich von Feilitzsch | first head of the Invalid Corps and commandant of the Invalidenhaus in Berlin | 66 | |
| January 19th | Karl Christoph von Zeuner | Prussian major general and governor of Kossen and Züllichau | ||
| January 28th | Konrad Leberecht Marshal von Bieberstein | royal Prussian lieutenant general of the cavalry | ||
| January 28th | Anton from Swab | Swedish mining captain, mountain ridge and mineralogist | 65 | |
| January 29th | John Martyn | British botanist | 68 | |
| 31 January | Friedrich Christian von Beverförde zu Werries | Minister of State in Prussia | ||
| January | Charles Maucourt | French painter and etcher |
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2nd | Johann Gottlieb Hauptmann | German linguist and Protestant theologian | 64 | |
| 3 February | August Friedrich Eichel | Prussian Cabinet Council | 69 | |
| February 5th | Karl Arberg | imperial officer | ||
| February 8 | George Dance the Elder | British architect | ||
| 13th February | Adolf Gideon Bartholdi | German educator | 79 | |
| February 25 | André Lefèvre | French lawyer, author and encyclopaedist | ||
| 27th of February | Johann Caspar Ulrich | Swiss reformed pastor | ||
| February 29th | Ignazio Michele Crivelli | Cardinal of the Catholic Church | 69 | |
| February 29th | Johann Jakob Lorez | Swiss reformed theologian, clergyman and educator | 70 |
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st March | Hermann Samuel Reimarus | High school professor in Hamburg for oriental languages; Defender of deism, pioneer of scientific biblical criticism | 73 | |
| 3 March | Felix Hess | Swiss reformed theologian | 25th | |
| 3 March | Nicola Antonio Porpora | Italian composer and singing teacher | 81 | |
| 5. March | Madho Singh I. | Maharaja of Jaipur | 39 | |
| 6th March | Johann Conrad Beissel | German religious founder | 77 | |
| 8th of March | Friedrich Botho zu Stolberg-Roßla | Elector General Lieutenant and Count von Stolberg-Roßla | 53 | |
| March 11 | Giovanni Battista Vaccarini | Italian architect | 66 | |
| March 18th | Laurence Stars | British writer | 54 | |
| 19th March | Etienne Forestier | French bronze caster | ||
| March 22 | Salomon Gottlob Frentzel | Sorbian-German clergyman, local chronicle of the city of Hoyerswerda | 67 | |
| 27th of March | Anton Egbert von Rodt | Austrian general | 57 | |
| March 30 | Theodore d'Henouville | French doctor and chemist | 52 |
April
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4. April | Philipp von Imhoff | Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttelscher Lieutenant General | 65 | |
| April 5th | Egidio Forcellini | Italian philologist and lexicographer | 79 | |
| April 6th | Heinrich Diedrich Balemann | Lawyer and mayor of Lübeck | 64 | |
| 9th April | Sarah Fielding | English writer, translator and literary critic | 57 | |
| April 14th | François de Cuvilliés the Elder | German builder and ornament maker | 72 | |
| April 16 | Ernst Johann Friedrich Mantzel (the elder) | German theologian and legal scholar | 68 | |
| April 16 | Anton Zoller | Austrian baroque painter | 73 | |
| April 19th | Giovanni Antonio Canal | Italian landscape painter | 70 | |
| April 19th | Ernst Ludwig Rathlef | German Lutheran theologian | ||
| April 21 | Dubislav Nikolaus von Pirch | Elector of Saxony Lieutenant General | 74 | |
| April 24th | Moritz Karl to Lynar | German diplomat | 66 | |
| April 24th | Johann Valentin Tischbein | German painter in Laubach, Maastricht, The Hague, Hildburghausen | 52 | |
| April 24th | Hermann Arnold von Wachtendonk | Electoral Palatinate Privy Councilor and Minister | ||
| April 29 | Georg Brandt | Swedish chemist | 73 |
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4th | Charles Étienne Louis Camus | French mathematician and physicist | 68 | |
| May 6th | Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, prince de Lamballe | Prince of the Bourbon House | 20th | |
| May 6th | Conrad Nahmmacher | German Protestant theologian and educator | 33 | |
| May 9 | Philipp Friedrich Gmelin | German doctor, botanist and chemist | 46 | |
| May 9 | Hermann Adolph von Haxthausen | Senior Marshal and Governor of the Paderborn Monastery | 65 | |
| May 16 | Miguel Cabrera | New Spanish painter | 72 | |
| May 16 | Georg Ludwig de la Chevallerie | British and electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg Major General | 56 | |
| May 18 | Johann Adam Berner | German organ builder | ||
| May 24th | Johann Jacob Spreng | Swiss linguist | 68 | |
| 25. May | Siegfried Caeso of Aeminga | German legal scholar | 57 | |
| May 26 | Félix de Berroeta | Governor of Chile | ||
| 30th May | Eggert Ólafsson | Icelandic poet and naturalist | 41 | |
| 30th May | Heinrich Christian von Senckenberg | German lawyer and political scientist | 63 |
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8th June | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | German archaeologist and art writer | 50 | |
| June 10th | Jacobus Voorda | Dutch legal scholar | 70 | |
| 14th June | Johann Christoph Pfeiffer | German Lutheran theologian and clergyman | 63 | |
| 18th of June | Jakob Friedrich von Briest | Royal Prussian Major General and Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 12 | 72 | |
| June 24th | Johann Julius Hecker | German educator | 60 | |
| June 24th | Maria Leszczyńska | by marriage to Louis XV. Queen of France | 65 | |
| June 28th | George Hadley | English physicist and meteorologist | 83 | |
| June 28th | Johann Gottfried Tympe | German oriental philologist and Protestant theologian | 68 |
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd July | Johann Ulrich Eberle | Austrian instrument maker | 70 | |
| July 4th | Johann Gottfried Borlach | German geologist and mine founder | 81 | |
| July 4th | Willem van Haren | Dutch poet | 58 | |
| 5th July | Johann Daniel Kluge | German Lutheran theologian and hymnologist | 67 | |
| July 11th | Maria Ursula Columba de Groote | Wife of Maria Franz Jakob Gabriel de Groote, Mayor of the Free Imperial City of Cologne | 33 | |
| July 11th | José de Nebra | Spanish pre-classical composer | 66 | |
| July 12 | Johann Gottfried Gross | German publicist and royal civil servant | 64 | |
| July 14th | James Short | British mathematician, optician and telescope builder | 58 | |
| July 14th | Johann Caspar Ulinger | Swiss etcher, engraver and draftsman | ||
| 20th of July | Francesco Arcangeli | Johann Joachim Winckelmann's murderer | 31 | |
| July 23 | Andreas Dathe | Hanseatic consul and historian | 64 | |
| 24th July | Wilhelm Heinrich | Prince from the Nassau-Saarbrücken line | 50 | |
| July 27th | Cay can | German architect |
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2nd | Johann Michael Herbart | German educator | 64 | |
| August 10 | John Huxham | English medic | ||
| August 11th | Peter Collinson | English botanist | 74 | |
| 20th of August | Joseph Ignaz Philipp of Hessen-Darmstadt | Prince-Bishop of Augsburg | 69 | |
| 20th of August | Claude-Nicolas Le Cat | French surgeon and physiologist | 67 | |
| 20th of August | Joseph Spence | English historian, horticultural architect and man of letters | 69 | |
| August 24th | Marcello Crescenzi | Italian clergyman, cardinal to the Curia and Archbishop of Ferrara | 73 | |
| August 24th | Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga | Governor of Panama and Chile | ||
| August 25 | Johann Conrad Seekatz | German painter | 48 | |
| August 31 | Maximilian Emmanuel Fremaut | Hydraulic engineer, director of the Vienna building department and councilor of commerce | 42 |
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 11 | Joseph-Nicolas Delisle | astronomer | 80 | |
| September 15th | Friedrich August von Hardenberg | German politician, statesman and minister | 67 | |
| September 15th | Carl August von Rex | Saxon Cabinet Minister, Conference Minister, Privy Council and Chancellor | 67 | |
| 16th September | Albrecht Siegmund von Seeguth-Stanisławski | Minister of Electoral Saxony | 80 | |
| September 20th | Joachim Rentzel | German lawyer and Hamburg councilor | 74 | |
| September 22 | Inocențiu Micu-Klein | Bishop of Făgăraș | ||
| 25th of September | Simon Troger | Tyrolean ivory carver | 74 | |
| September 28th | Christian Seybold | German artist | ||
| September | Johann Jakob on the Heyden | Mayor of Elberfeld | 62 |
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1 | Robert Simson | Scottish mathematician and surveyor | 80 | |
| October 2nd | Wilhelm Heinrich Beckher | German Lutheran theologian | 74 | |
| 4th of October | Johann Baptista Lauggas | German sculptor of the Rococo | ||
| 8th October | Pierre Simon Fournier | French typographer | 56 | |
| October 11th | Ewald Georg von Kleist | Royal Prussian major general and commander of Fort Prussia near Neisse | 70 | |
| October 12th | James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton | Scottish nobleman and naturalist | ||
| October, 16th | Johann Baptist Bohadsch | Austrian physician and natural scientist | 44 | |
| October 17th | Louis VIII | Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1739–1768) | 77 | |
| October 19th | Agostino Masucci | Italian history painter, portrait painter and draftsman | ||
| October 19th | Johann Justus Sello | Royal Planteur in the Tiergarten, Berlin | 78 | |
| October 24th | Antoine Gautier de Montdorge | French dramaturge, librettist, poet and encyclopedist | 67 | |
| October 26th | Anton Heinrich Friedrich von Stadion | Grand Chamberlain in the Electorate of Mainz | 77 | |
| 28th of October | Michel Blavet | French flautist and composer | 68 | |
| October 31 | Francesco Maria Veracini | Italian violinist and composer | 78 |
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1st | Pieter van Maldere | Belgian composer and violinist of the pre-classical period | 39 | |
| November 4th | Johannes Lulofs | Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist | 57 | |
| November 8th | Julius Leopold of Caprivi | German archivist, historian and poet of hymns | 73 | |
| November 10th | Johann Jacob Leu | Swiss encyclopaedist, mayor of Zurich and banker | 79 | |
| November 16 | Johann von Lehwaldt | Prussian Field Marshal General | 83 | |
| November 17th | Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | British politician | 75 | |
| November 19th | Friedrich Johann Emich from Üxküll-Gyllenband | German President of the Church Council of the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach, first Privy Council, President of the Court and Government Council | 83 | |
| 22nd of November | Levin Möller | Swedish theologian and mathematician, Provost of Linköping Cathedral | 59 | |
| 25. November | Franz Georg Hermann | German painter | 75 | |
| November 26th | Edward Stone | Researcher | 66 | |
| November 28th | Franz Lippold | German portrait painter |
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 8th | Jean-Denis Attiret | French Jesuit missionary and painter | 66 | |
| 10th of December | Ludwig Philipp Roeck | Merchant and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck | ||
| 13th December | Étienne Noël Damilaville | French printer and encyclopaedist | 45 | |
| 13th December | Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt | German lawyer and historian | 69 | |
| December 14th | Ulla Tessin | Swedish lady-in-waiting, countess | 57 | |
| December 16 | Georg von Werthern | Nobleman | 68 | |
| 24th of December | Bernhard Mazillis | German merchant and benefactor | 52 | |
| December 29th | Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern | German actor, playwright and topographer | 57 | |
| December | Johann Peter de Landas | Mayor of Elberfeld | 65 |
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giancarlo Antonelli | Italian Roman Catholic clergyman and auxiliary bishop in the suburbicarian diocese of Velletri | |||
| Fyodor Semyonovich Argunov | Russian architect | |||
| Felix Benda | Bohemian organist and composer | |||
| Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin | French baroque flute virtuoso | |||
| Kaspar of Carnap | Mayor of Elberfeld | |||
| Anton Paul Ludwig Carstens | German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and writer | |||
| Michael Balthasar von Christalnigg | Religious, prince provost of Berchtesgaden (1752–1768) | |||
| Anton Ulrich von Dyhrn and Schönau | German court marshal, chamberlain and landowner | |||
| Giovanni Domenico Ferretti | Florentine rococo painter | |||
| Ivan Gonta | Cossack and leader of the Hajdamaks in the Koliyivshchyna uprising in 1768 | |||
| Johann Gottlieb Kirchner | German sculptor | |||
| Markus Christoph Koch from Gailenbach | Imperial councilor, city caretaker of Augsburg | |||
| Christian Kretzschmar | German builder of the Baroque and Rococo | |||
| August Wolfgang von Kinckel | Legal counsel for the knight canton of Odenwald in Heilbronn | |||
| Dominique Guillaume Lebel | Valet Louis XV. | |||
| Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Elder | French engraver | |||
| Tallima Paap | Estonian peasant preacher | |||
| Franz Wilhelm von Podewils | Pomeranian government councilor | |||
| Christian von Rodt | Austrian general | |||
| Christoph Ludwig Stieglitz | German Lutheran theologian | |||
| Tammatevo Pudisatkhattinarat | Viceroy of the Kingdom of Champasak |