Nekrolog 1774

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1774 . 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 1st	Johann Georg Plersch	Polish sculptor
January 7th	Antoine Clairiard de Choiseul de Beaupré	Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church	66
January 7th	Józef Andrzej Załuski	noble Polish Catholic bishop, author, politician and librarian	71
January 9th	Jacques-François Blondel	French architect and architectural historian	69
January 18th	Louis de Conflans, marquis d'Armentières	Marshal of France	62
January 18th	Arnoldus Detten	Catholic priest, abbot of the Marienfeld monastery	66
21th January	Florian Leopold Gassmann	Austrian composer	44
21th January	Mustafa III.	Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1757–1774)	56
22nd of January	Wilhelm Karl Krupp	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
22nd of January	Gottlieb Wernsdorf I.	German educator, rhetorician and author	56
January 26th	Johann Gottlieb Töllner	Protestant theologian	49
January 28th	Antonio Galli da Bibiena	Italian decorative painter and architect
January 30th	Jean-Pierre Guignon	Italian composer and violinist	71
January 30th	František Ignác Tůma	Czech composer	69

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Johann Heinrich Zopf	German historian, theologian and educator	82
February 4th	Charles Marie de La Condamine	French mathematician and astronomer	73
February 12th	Francisco Rodríguez Cardoso	Military engineer
February 24th	Heinrich Becker	German Lutheran theologian	75
February 25	Johann Georg of Saxony	Electoral general and governor of Dresden	69
February 26th	Christian Heinrich von Dewitz	German district administrator of the Daber district	75
February 26th	Johann Rudolf Thurneysen	Swiss legal scholar and historian	57
27th of February	Alexander August Christian von Humbracht	Imperial Austrian officer and holder of the Maria Theresa Order
February	Johann Tobias Sunday	German painter	57

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5. March	Georg Joachim Mark	German Lutheran theologian and librarian	48
7th March	Carlo Alberto Guidobono Cavalchini	Cardinal of the Roman Church, Curia Bishop	90
March, 15	Johann Ernst Faber	German university professor	29
March 23	Ludwig Conrad Smalcalder	German lawyer, professor and rector at the University of Tübingen	77
25th March	Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken	by marriage, Countess Palatine and Duchess of Palatinate-Zweibrücken	69
28th March	Johann Friedrich Zeumer	German Court and Justice Council
March 30	Caroline of Pfalz-Zweibrücken	Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt	53

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4. April	Oliver Goldsmith	Irish writer and doctor	45
April 5th	Rudolf Augustin Vogel	German doctor	49
11 April	Johan Peter Falck	Swedish naturalist and botanist	42
11 April	Elias Gottlob Haussmann	German painter of the late baroque
11 April	Wolbrand Vogt	German theologian and cathedral preacher from Bremen	76
April 18	Michael Ranft	Vampirism researcher, Protestant pastor	73
April 18	Louis de Régemortes	French engineer, bridge and hydraulic engineer
April 19th	Léger Marie Deschamps	French utopian and metaphysical philosopher	58
April 23	Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich	German painter and engraver	61
April 24th	Martin Kröncke	German mint master and Prussian general mint director
April 28	Georg Heinrich Ayrer	German lawyer	72
April 28	Gottfried Lengnich	German historian, lawyer and state theorist	84
April 28	Takebe Ayatari	Japanese poet and painter
April 29	Samuel Buchholtz	German Lutheran theologian and historian	56

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué	Prussian general	76
May 3rd	Johann Nikolaus Tischer	German organist and composer
May 4th	Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	Russian general	59
May 6th	Johann Franz August Zimmermann	Journeyman carpenter
10th of May	Louis XV	King of France and Navarre (1715–1774)	64
17th of May	Francisco Javier de Morales	Governor of Chile
May 19th	Jakob Christoph Schletterer	Tyrolean sculptor	74
May 24th	Jacob Brandeis	German rabbi
May 26	Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg	Austrian military leader	89

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 5th	Ludolph Lafontaine	German painter	69
June 9th	Caspar Ferdinand Droste to Fruits	Canon and Court Chamber President in Münster	60
June 11th	Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim	Elector and Archbishop of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Worms	66
15th June	Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky	German author of edification and song poet of Halle Pietism	83
June 22	John Day	English inventor
25th June	Johann Casper Beck	German organ builder
June 27th	Johann Christoph Buch	German lawyer	59

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 4th	Albrecht Heinrich Carl Conradi	German construction manager and cartographer
July 4th	Christoph Friedrich Harpprecht	German legal scholar	73
7th of July	Elisabeth Albertine of Anhalt-Bernburg	Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen	81
July 9	Anna Morandi Manzolini	Italian anatomist and wax artist	60
July 11th	William Johnson	Irish-British trader, politician and general in the British colonies in North America
July 13th	Otto von Munchausen	German botanist	58
July 18th	Thomas Fitch	American colonial governor
21 July	Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond	Irish peer and British politician
24th July	Étienne-René Potier de Gesvres	Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church	77
24th July	Caroline Lennox, 1st Baroness Holland	British nobles	51
24th July	Johann George Schmidt	German builder of the late baroque and council carpenter of the city of Dresden
July 25th	Georg Philipp Rugendas	German painter and engraver	72
July 27th	Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin	German botanist and naturalist	30th

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 14th	Johann Jacob Reiske	German Arabist, Graecist and Byzantinist	57
August 19th	Justus Vincent Ritter	German lawyer, senior secretary and councilor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg	58
August 19th	Johann Ernst Schubert	German Protestant theologian	57
20th of August	Bernhard Ludwig von Platen	Prussian officer and Volga German poet
August 22nd	Johann Conrad Jacobi	Banker and merchant in Königsberg, close friend of Immanuel Kant	56
August 22nd	Georg Heinrich Riebow	German Lutheran theologian, consistorial councilor and general superintendent	71
August 24th	Georg Moritz Lowitz	Astronomer, physicist, mathematician and cartographer	52
August 25	Niccolò Jommelli	Italian pre-classical composer	59
26th of August	Philipp Jakob Straub	Austrian sculptor
August 28th	Dietrich Peter Scriba	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, educator, lawyer, author and poet	37

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 2nd	Friedrich Magnus von Horn	royal Prussian major general
September 4th	Karl Wilhelm von Kreckwitz	Prussian colonel	52
September 10	Léopold-Charles de Choiseul-Stainville	Roman Catholic bishop	49
September 18	Johann Friedrich Meckel	German medic	50
September 19th	Karl Gottlob Hofmann	German Lutheran theologian and historian	70
September 22	Clement XIV.	Pope	68
September 22	Karl Ludwig	Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck	84
September 27th	Philipp Friedrich Hane	German Protestant theologian and church historian	78

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Erhard Andreas Frommann	German Protestant clergyman and educator	51
5th October	Carl Ludwig von Wolffersdorff	Royal Polish and electoral Saxon chief hunter, director and chief inspector of all rafts and owner of the Gröditz manor near Torgau	74
8th October	Ahmad Shah	Mughal Mughal of India
8th October	Johann Sebastian Albrecht	German doctor and naturalist
8th October	Johann Georg Schrepfer	Ghost seers, impostors
15th October	Levin-Friedrich von Bismarck	Prussian Minister of Justice and President of the Chamber Court	71
October, 16th	Robert Fergusson	Scottish poet	24
October 17th	Hermann Hannibal von Blümegen	Bishop of Königgrätz	58
October 18	Joachim Samuel Weickmann	German Lutheran theologian
October 24th	Christoph Andreas Büttner	German educator
October 29th	August von Hallerstein	German-Austrian Jesuit and missionary	71
October 31	Joachim Friedrich von Leckow	Prussian Major General and Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 2

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 2	George Christoph von Hessler	Electorate colonel of the infantry, regimental commander, knight of the order Pour le Mérite and manor owner
November 11th	Johann Baptist Modler	German Rococo sculptor	77
November 11th	Otto Casimir von Versen	Prussian major general, commander of Dragoon Regiment No. 9	69
November 12th	Johann Christoph Harenberg	German theologian and historian	78
November 18	Giovanni Francesco Stoppani	Cardinal of the Roman Church and bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Palestrina	79
20th November	Georg Ludwig Alefeld	German medic and physicist	42
21st November	Johann Siegmund Popowitsch	Austrian linguist and natural scientist	69
22nd of November	Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive	British general and statesman	49
November 23	Gottfried Bernhard Göz	Rococo painter and engraver
25. November	Henry Baker	English polymath, founder of the Baker Lecture	76
November 27th	Johann Daniel Victor von Scheele	Elector General of Hanover
November 28th	Pierre de L'Estache	French sculptor
November 29th	Gabriel-Mathieu de Clieu	French naval officer, royal lieutenant and governor of Guadeloupe

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Johann Friedrich Agricola	German musician, composer and music writer	54
2. December	Anton von Herberstein	Bishop of Trieste	48
3rd of December	Johann Abraham Schlieper	Mayor of Elberfeld
December 4th	Abraham Leihammer	German Rococo faience painter
December 7th	Johann Daniel Leers	German botanist and pharmacist	47
13th December	Susanne von Klettenberg	Canon lady and religious writer	50
13th December	Maria Karolina von Königsegg-Rothenfels	Abbess of the Buchau women's monastery	67
December 16	François Quesnay	French doctor and economist	80
December 17th	Friedrich Wilhelm von Wylich and Lottum	Prussian major general and commandant of Berlin	58
23rd of December	Francesco Maria Preti	Italian architect	73
30th of December	Antoniotto Botta Adorno	Austrian officer, diplomat and minister
December 31	Johann Christoph Handke	Moravian baroque painter	80

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Ferdinando Bassi	Italian botanist
	Chökyi Chungne	Tibetan grammarian
	Louis Dupré	French dancer, choreographer and educator
	Benjamin Glanville	British architect
	Johann Dietrich Heumann	German court architect in Hanover
	John Hitchcock	British harpsichord maker
	Ernst Werner von Laffert	Hanoverian officer and regiment owner
	Margaretha Susanna Kayser	German soprano and opera director
	Pierre-Jean Mariette	French engraver, collector & art critic
	Adam Anton von Meyern	German administrative lawyer
	Franz Pehr Oldenburg	Swedish plant collector
	Johann Ernst von Schmettow	Prussian officer, most recently major general
	Václav Vodička	bohemian composer