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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 |
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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 |