Nekrolog 1776

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1776 . 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 4th	Bernhard Alexander von Düringshofen	Prussian major general	61
January 5th	Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller	German theologian, zoologist	50
January 14th	Edward Cornwallis	British army officer, colonial governor and politician	62
21th January	Jacques de Romas	French physicist	62
January 23	Franz Sebald Unterberger	South Tyrolean painter	69
January 24th	Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen	German Pietist, court preacher to the English king
January 26th	Johann Caspar Högl	German-Austrian master stonemason and sculptor, Mayor of Eggenburg, Lower Austria
January 28th	Julián de Arriaga	Spanish nobleman, officer and minister	75

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Francis Hayman	English painter and illustrator
February 12th	Georg Johann Ludwig Vogel	German orientalist and Protestant theologian	33
February 17th	Johann Melchior Wichartz	Trades and mayors in Brilon
February 17th	Peter Wülffing	German pastor Zionit	74
20. February	Philipp Ernst Kern	General superintendent in Hildburghausen	59
February 26th	Johann Christoph Paucker	evangelical clergyman	40

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Charles III	Imperial Count of Ortenburg	61
4th of March	Johann Georg Ziesenis the Younger	German portrait painter
5. March	Yeongjo	21. King of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea	81
March 10th	Élie Catherine Fréron	French writer and publicist	58
March 18th	Carl Elias Adolph von Hachenberg	Prussian colonel	58
March 23	Robert James	English doctor	72
March 24th	Johann Georg Achenbach	Mayor of Siegen	70
March 24th	John Harrison	English watchmaker, inventor of the Grasshopper escapement and temperature compensation	83
26th of March	Samuel Ward	North American politician, 31st and 33rd Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations	50
March 29	Johann Gotthelf Lindner	German university professor and writer	46
March 31	John Bird	English astronomer

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Christoph Gottlieb Büttner	German medic	67
2nd of April	Luc Courchetet d'Esnans	French lawyer and agent of the Hanseatic cities with the French government	80
12. April	Joseph Franz	Austrian Jesuit and scientist	72
12. April	Isaac Jacob of Petri	German engineer, cartographer, architect	70
April 18	Johann Joseph von Khevenhüller-Metsch	Diplomat, court official and 1st Prince Khevenhüller-Metsch	69
April 19th	Jacob Emden	Jewish scholar	78
20th of April	Friedrich Bernhard Werner	German draftsman and engraver	86
April 22	Filippo Finazzi	Italian castrato, composer and conductor	70
April 22	Johann Adolf Scheibe	German baroque composer and music critic	67
April 25	Gottfried Christian Rothe	Lutheran theologian and Superintendent General of Pomerania
26th of April	Wilhelmine of Hessen-Darmstadt	Princess of Hessen-Darmstadt, by marriage Grand Duchess of Russia	20th
April	Lemuel Abbott	English cleric and poet

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	Joseph Piosasque de Non	Bavarian officer, diplomat and ambassador	94
5th of May	Johann Andreas Kayser of Kaysern	Bishop of Königgrätz, Vicar General of Prague	59
May 7th	Maria Anna of Bavaria	Margravine of Baden	41
8th of May	Gabriel Walser	Swiss pastor, historian and geographer	80
May 11th	Christoph Gottlieb Hedemann	German architect
May 11th	Fredrik Carl Sinclair	Swedish nobleman, military man and politician	52
May 14th	Samuel Lenz	German historian, lawyer and university lecturer	90
May 14th	Ludwig Wilhelm von Schorlemmer	Prussian lieutenant general
May 22	Julie de Lespinasse	French salonière, muse of encyclopedists	43
25. May	Johann Georg von Langen	German forest and chief hunter master	77
May 29th	Theodor Johann Quistorp	German lawyer and playwright	54
30th May	Ike no Taiga	Japanese painter	53

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Erdmann Rudolf Fischer	German Lutheran theologian	88
2th of June	John Thomas	American general in the American War of Independence
3rd of June	Bonaventure Bucher	Swiss Benedictine monk, prince abbot of the Muri monastery	57
June 4th	Johann Gottfried Rosenberg	German-Danish architect in the Rococo period
June 10th	Hsinbyushin	burmese king	39
June 10th	Paul de Ribeyre	French bishop
June 11th	Johann Ludwig Oeder	German pedagogue and councilor	53
June 11th	Leopold Widhalm	Nuremberg lute and violin maker	53
June 12	Bartolomeo Felici	Italian composer and organist
June 13th	William Battie	English psychiatrist	72
June 13th	Friedrich von Spörcken	electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg field marshal and commanding general	77
20th June	Benjamin Huntsman	English inventor, metal caster and manufacturer of cast steel	72
June 22	William Byron	British politician	26th
25th June	Johannes Horthemels	Dutch philosopher and reformed theologian

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 9	Jürgen Grube	Government and higher court advocate; Author of Otia Jersbecensia
10th of July	Ernst Samuel Jakob Borchward	German hymn poet	59
July 13th	Andreas Anton of Capris	Bavarian major general	60
15th of July	Franco Pauw	Dutch local politician	62
16th of July	Franziska Christine von Pfalz-Sulzbach	Abbess of the Essen monastery	80
21 July	Giuseppe Asclepi	Italian astronomer and physicist	70
24th July	Johann Michael von Loën	German writer, scholar and statesman	81
24th July	David Georg Strube	German lawyer and journalist	81
July 26th	Benedicta Margareta von Löwendal	Danish-German nobleman and entrepreneur
29th of July	Charles Hutin	French painter and sculptor, director of the Dresden Art Academy	61
July 31	Gilles Demarteau	French engraver, eraser and art publisher	54
July 31	Franz Michael Florence from Lilies	Thurn and Taxis Court Marshal and Werler Erbsälzer	80
July 31	Friedrich Wilhelm von Woedtke	Prussian officer, General of the Continental Army in the American War of Independence
July	Marie Durand	French Huguenot who was trapped in the “Tour de Constance” of Aigues-Mortes for 38 years

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 2nd	Louis François I de Bourbon, prince de Conti	French nobleman	58
August 2nd	Matthew Maty	Dutch physician, biographer and librarian	58
August 2nd	Jordan Simon	German Catholic theologian	56
3rd August	Peter Jakob Horemans	Flemish painter
15th of August	Franz Xaver Kleinhans	Rococo builder in the Augsburg bishopric	76
17th August	Johann Adam of Ickstatt	German university professor, director of the University of Ingolstadt	74
August 25	Josef Anton Euseb von Beroldingen	German nobleman, imperial councilor (1743–1749)	72
August 25	David Hume	Scottish philosopher, economist and historian	65
26th of August	Christian Ernst Hanßelmann	Archivist and Roman Provincial Archaeologist	77
August 28th	Christian Samuel Ulber	German Protestant theologian	62

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Ludwig Hölty	German poet around the Hainbund	27
September 1	Augustin Roux	French doctor and translator
September 4th	Anton de Haen	Austrian doctor	71
5th September	Johann Wilhelm Siebel	Mayor of Elberfeld
September 6th	Jan Bouman	Dutch builder	70
September 8th	Johann Chrysanth Bollenrath	German Baroque painter	79
12th September	Peter Heinrich von Stojentin	Prussian general, governor of Liebenwalde and Zehdenick
September 14th	Pierre Daubenton	French lawyer, author and encyclopaedist	73
September 15th	Joachim Erdmann Schmidt	German legal scholar and historian	66
September 19th	Johann Albrecht von Bülow	Prussian general	67
September 19th	Christian Pedersen Horrebow	Danish astronomer	58
September 20th	Lucietta Affabili	Italian opera singer (soprano)
September 20th	Cadwallader Colden	British doctor, botanist, scientist and politician, governor of the English colony of New York	88
September 20th	Innocenz Deixlberger	Benedictine and theologian	75
September 22	Nathan Hale	American officer and teacher and one of the United States' historical heroes	21st
September 28th	Pieter Cramer	Dutch businessman and entomologist	55
September 28th	Johann Heinrich von Holtzmann	royal Prussian colonel and commander of the Silesian artillery garrison battalion
September 29th	Johann Philipp von Beust	German General, Privy Council of War and Chief Bailiff	70

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	George Desmarées	Swedish painter	78
8th October	Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow	English nobleman and politician
October 10th	Heinrich Wilhelm von Wutginau	Landgrave General of the Infantry of Hesse-Kassel and Governor of Rheinfels Castle
15th October	John Ellis	Irish botanist and zoologist
October 17th	Ernst Julius von Koschenbahr	Prussian major general
October 17th	Pierre François Le Courayer	French Augustinian canon and theologian, professor at Oxford in exile in England	94
October 21	Bernhard Feldmann	German doctor, naturalist and writer	71
23rd October	Andreas Carl Haacke	German military engineer and cartographer
23rd October	Josef Franz Knoll	Administrator of the chamber domain Temescher Banat
October 26th	Richard Bland	American politician	66
28th of October	Sophie of Saxe-Hildburghausen	Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld	16
October 31	Maximilian of Hamilton	Archbishop of Olomouc	62

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 5th	Johann Jakob Baur	German Protestant theologian, orientalist and philologist	47
November 6th	Johann Deodatus Friedrich von Bayar	Prussian major general
November 7th	Jacob Sigismund Waitz von Eschen	Hessian and Prussian ministers	78
November 8th	Karl Gotthelf von Hund and Altengrotkau	German Freemason	54
15th of November	Karl Christoph von Plötz	Prussian major general, chief of infantry regiment No. 22, governor of Bublitz
15th of November	Fernando de Silva y Álvarez de Toledo	Spanish diplomat, statesman and prime minister	62
November 16	James Ferguson	Scottish astronomer and mechanic	66
November 16	Heinrich Julius of Lindau	German baron and lieutenant	22nd
22nd of November	Johann Caspar Simon	German composer	75
November 23	Théophile de Bordeu	French doctor	54
November 24th	Ernst Philipp von Grothaus	royal British lieutenant general, Brunswick cavalry general	72
November 29th	Giovanna Maria Farussi	Actress and mother of Giacomo Casanova	68

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of December	Bernhard von Wickede	Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
December 7th	Thomas le Cointe	German theologian of Huguenot descent
12th of December	Anton Maria Stupan von Ehrenstein	Austrian privy councilor
13th December	Karl Franz Henisch	German actor and librettist	31
December 14th	Johann Jakob Breitinger	Swiss philologist and author	75
December 17th	Imanuel Heinrich Kauderbach	German Lutheran theologian	81
December 17th	Johann Gottfried Stecher	German carpenter and sculptor	58
21st December	Carl August Wilhelm von Closen	Member of the Göttingen Grove Association
December 26th	Johann Rall	Colonel
30th of December	Bernhard Lorenz Groot	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
December 31	Johann Weiss	Allgäu fresco painter	38
December	Thomas Lynch	American politician

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Jacob van der Aa	Dutch painter
	Benedikt von Ahlefeldt	Commander of Heligoland and District Administrator in Uetersen
	Giuseppe Antonio Albuccio	Baroque Italian plasterer
	Giorgio Antoniotti	Italian composer and cellist
	Vittorio Bigari	Italian painter
	Franz Heinrich von Dalberg	Burgrave of Friedberg, governor of Worms, bailiff of Oppenheim
	August Wilhelm von Dehn	Baron von Dehn of Ludwigsburg and holder of the Dannebrog Order
	Ephraim Ebel	Pastor
	Andreas Christoph Graf	German author
	Inta Pom	King of the Kingdom of Luang Phrabang
	Johann Adam Kesel	Representative of the patriciate of Kesel, merchant and mayor of the imperial city of Kempten
	Marijona Kosakovskienė	Lithuanian politician
	Georg Paul Nussbiegel	German engraver and publisher
	Jean-Michel Papillon	French wood cutter, artist and encyclopaedist
	Nathaniel St. André	Swiss anatomist and obstetrician
	Nikolai Sergeyevich Titov	Russian composer