Nekrolog 1779

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1779 . 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	Ludwig Gottlieb Buchner	German librarian	67
January 2nd	Jakob Philipp von Schwerin	Swedish Imperial Council, President of the Wismar Tribunal	59
January 3rd	Claude Bourgelat	French author of specialist books on hippology	66
6th January	Alexander Georg von Humboldt	Prussian officer and entrepreneur	58
6th January	Rudolf von Seelhorst	Prussian major general	78
January 19th	Johann Friedrich von Balbi	Commander of the Prussian engineering corps
January 20th	Johannes Burman	Dutch doctor and botanist	72
January 20th	David Garrick	British actor	61
21th January	Christoph Traugott Delius	German mining scientist
22nd of January	Jeremiah Dixon	English geometer	45
January 26th	Thomas Hudson	British portrait painter
January 28th	Joseph Franz Xaver von Hoppenbichl	German Catholic clergyman and economist	57

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Johann Ludwig L'Estocq	German lawyer	66
February 2nd	Georg Philipp Kress	German composer and violinist	59
3 February	Louis de Jaucourt	French author	74
February 7th	William Boyce	English pre-classical composer
February 7th	Christian Bogislaw von Linden	royal Prussian major general	71
February 10th	Carl Leberecht Crusius	German engraver and illustrator	38
February 12th	Henrik Filip Johnsen	Swedish composer
February 12th	Jacob van der Schley	Dutch draftsman and engraver	63
14th of February	James Cook	British navigator and explorer	50
February 16	Friedrich Georg zu Wied-Runkel	Count zu Wied and Austrian field marshal	66
February 18	Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim	Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Bamberg	71
20. February	Leopold von Zastrow	Prussian, then Hesse-Kassel lieutenant general	76
February 24th	Paul Daniel Longolius	Philologist, historian, teacher and rector	74
27th of February	Johann Georg Sulzer	Swiss philosopher	58
February 28	Adriaan van Royen	Dutch doctor and botanist	75

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd March	Karim Khan	Shah of Persia and founder of the dynasty of the Zand princes
2nd March	Ignaz von Spaur	Bishop of Brixen	49
3 March	Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert	French journalist and pamphleteer	52
4th of March	Heinrich Leopold Wagner	German writer of the "Sturm und Drang"	32
March 11	Louis César Constantin de Rohan-Guéméné	French clergyman, cardinal of the Catholic Church, Bishop of Strasbourg	81
March 13th	Roman Benedikt Nollet	Organ builder	69
17. March	Franz Leopold Graff	Austrian composer	59
March 18th	Johann Gottlieb Faber	Protestant theologian from Württemberg	62
27th of March	Christian Dietrich von Wakenitz	District Administrator in Swedish Pomerania	70
28th March	Woldemar Salomo house village	German Protestant theologian	47
March 29	David Nitschmann	Missionary, syndic and archivist of the Moravian Brethren	75

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4. April	Johann Joseph Gassner	Exorcist and faith healer	51
April 6th	Ernst Christoph Dressler	German composer, tenor, violinist and music theorist	44
April 6th	Tommaso Traetta	Italian composer	52
7th of April	Hilaire-Marin Rouelle	French chemist	61
9th April	Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa	Governor of Cuba and Viceroy of New Spain	62
10th of April	Grigory Nikolaevich Teplov	Russian composer	61
11 April	Joseph de Jussieu	French botanist	74
12. April	Georg David Hunter	Syndic
April 15th	Johann Gottfried Ignaz von Wolfskeel	Würzburg canon and president of the Würzburg court chamber and the court war council	85
April 18	François Granier	French composer
April 23	Friedrich Samuel Zickler	German Lutheran theologian	57
April 24th	Eleazar Wheelock	American minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA), educator	68
26th of April	Heinrich Höck	German Protestant theologian	78
April	Gottfried Heinrich Gloger	German organ builder

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Johann Georg Gesner	German educator and librarian	49
2.May	Karl Levin von Trümbach	Hessian nobleman and officer, general in Hessen-Kassel, Brabant, Bavaria and Great Britain	60
May 4th	Georg Greggenhofer	German builder of the late baroque
10th of May	Michael Ludwig von Diezelsky	third chief of the Berlin Invalid Corps and the Invalidenhaus	70
May 11th	John Hart	Farmer and founding fathers of the USA
May 13th	Heinrich XXIV.	Count Reuss von Lobenstein zu Ebersdorf	55
May 16	Johann Paul Reinhard	German university professor and historian	56
17th of May	Rafael Levi	German mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, author and educator, student of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
May 21	Johann Theodor von Franken-Siersdorf	last Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony	58
May 26	Johann Erichson	German theologian and schoolboy	78
May 27th	Hinrich Christian Elmenhorst	German merchant and shipping company owner	53
28th of May	Georg David Kypke	Orientalist	54
30th May	Johann Friedrich Hahn	German lyric poet	25th

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 7th	William Warburton	English critic and bishop	80
June 9th	Karl Reinhard von Ellrichshausen	Austrian General Feldzeugmeister	59
June 11th	Johann Ladner	Austrian late baroque sculptor
June 19th	Mohammad Ali Khan	Shah of Persia from the dynasty of the Zand princes
June 21st	Hermann Werner von der Asseburg	Elector of Cologne Minister	77
23rd June	Michael Sehul	Ethiopian politician, governor of Tigray
June 26th	Prosper Donderer	Abbot of the Kreuzlingen Monastery	64
June 29th	Anton Raphael Mengs	German painter	51
June 29th	David Samuel Daniel Wyttenbach	Swiss reformed theologian	73

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Joachim Friedrich Henckel	German surgeon	67
7th of July	Friderike Elisabeth von Grabow	German poet and educator
July 12	Jakob Jonas Björnståhl	Swedish university professor	48
July 14th	Florian Baucke	Silesian Jesuit missionary and writer	59
July 14th	Anton Römer	Austrian organ builder	55
July 14th	George Ross	British-American lawyer and statesman, one of the founding fathers of the United States	49
15th of July	Benedict von Bremer	German lawyer	61
July 18th	Luisa Bergalli	Italian poet and librettist	76
21 July	Michael Adelbulner	German mathematician, physicist and astronomer	77
July 26th	Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph Biefer	German pietist	73
29th of July	Nikolaus Bertram von Below	Prussian Chamber President
29th of July	Peter Wilhelm Hensler	German lawyer and writer	37
30th July	Ludwig von Oppen	Prussian colonel and commander of the cuirassier regiment "Prince of Prussia", heir to Fredersdorf	74
July 31	Wolf George von Eberstein	Prussian major	55

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 2nd	George Rice	British politician
3rd August	Hendrik Kobell	Dutch painter	27
6th of August	Friedrich Wilhelm von Apenburg	Prussian major
August 22nd	Abol Fath Khan	Shah of Persia from the dynasty of the Zand princes
August 22nd	Charles Clerke	British navigator and explorer	38
August 24th	Christian Friedrich Herold	German enamel painter
August 24th	Cosmas of Aitolia	Orthodox saint
August 30th	Esther Denner	German painter

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 2nd	Onno Zwier van Haren	Dutch statesman and poet	66
September 3	William Henry Drayton	American lawyer, judge, and politician
5th September	Edward Biddle	American politician
5th September	Johann Ludwig von Goltstein	Minister of Finance, Governor	61
5th September	August Lebrecht Stettin	German bookseller	53
September 6th	Wilhelm Karl Stolle	Lutheran clergyman and historian	75
7th of September	John Armstrong	Scottish doctor and writer
7th of September	August Adolph von Kamecke	Royal Prussian major and commander of the Alt-Kameke grenadier battalion
September 8th	Bjarni Pálsson	Icelandic doctor and educator	60
September 11	Johann Gottfried Knöffler	German sculptor	64
13.september	Bernhard Anton Katterbauer	Bohemian baroque sculptor
September 14th	Anton Pichler	German-Italian gem cutter	82
September 23rd	Theresia Irmgard Sibilla von Oeyen	abbess	82
September 26th	Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne	French scholar	85
30. September	Diego José Abad	Mexican Jesuit, poet and translator	52
September	Joachim Friedrich von der Hardt	Royal Prussian colonel and commander of Grenadier Regiment No. 4

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	James Parsons	American politician
5th October	André Le Breton	French bookseller, printer, publisher	71
October 6th	Heinrich Madlseder	German Benedictine and abbot
9th October	Johann Georg Dirr	Rococo plasterer and sculptor	56
9th October	Hans Christoph von Königsmarck	Prussian Major General and Commander of Regiment No. 23	78
October 11th	Kazimierz Pułaski	Polish nobleman, politician and soldier; Leader of the Confederation of Bar and General in the American War of Independence	34
October 12th	Joseph Garnier	French composer and conductor
October 18	Leonard Offerhaus	German historian in the Netherlands	79
23rd October	Franz Fridolin Weber	German bailiff, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father-in-law
October 24th	Friedrich Wilhelm von Derschau	Prussian statesman
October 24th	Hans von Tettenborn	Royal Prussian Lieutenant General
October 27	Jean-Edme Romilly	Swiss theologian and encyclopaedist
October	John Giles Eccardt	German-British painter

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 9th	Heinrich Gottfried von Mattuschka	German botanist and philosopher	45
November 10th	Joseph Hewes	Signed the United States Declaration of Independence for North Carolina	49
November 12th	Helfrich Peter Sturz	German writer	43
November 13th	Johann Adam	German violist and composer
November 13th	Thomas Chippendale	British furniture designer and manufacturer
November 16	Pehr Kalm	Swedish naturalist and agricultural economist	63
November 19th	Franz Xaver Anton von Scheben	Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Worms and Titular Bishop of Assuras (1765–1779)	68
November 23	Georg Ludwig Herrnschmidt	German Protestant theologian	67
November 23	Johannes Seiz	German builder	62
25. November	François Lamathe Dom Bédos de Celles de Salelles	French Benedictine, organ builder, appraiser and writer	70
November 27th	Josse Boutmy	Belgian composer, harpsichordist and organist	82
November 27th	Gioacchino Martorana	Italian painter	43
November 27th	Wacław Rzewuski	Polish voivode and grand hetman	74
November 28th	Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling	Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general of the hussars	60

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Johann Lucas Kracker	Austro-Czech late Baroque painter	62
December 5th	Heřman Antonín Jelínek	Czech composer and violin virtuoso	70
6th of December	Jean Siméon Chardin	French painter	80
11th December	Alessandro Albani	Italian cardinal	87
12th of December	Charles Le Roy	French doctor and encyclopaedist	53
December 14th	Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg	French medic, botanist, author, encyclopedist and translator	70
December 14th	Johann Baptist Sellinger	German sculptor and wood carver	65
December 16	Go-momozono	Emperor of Japan	21st
December 17th	Adolf Alfson	Norwegian artillery officer in Austrian service	75
December 18th	Ferenc Faludi	Hungarian poet and scholar	75
20th of December	Johann Philipp Burckhard Asbrand	German reformed theologian	57
21st December	Christian Friedrich von Helmolt	Electoral Saxon governor in the Thuringian district and heir, feudal lord and court lord on Kannawurf
December 22	István Küzmics	Hungarian evangelical priest, teacher and translator
23rd of December	Franciscus Volckland	German organ builder of the Thuringian baroque	83
December 28th	Gennaro Manna	Italian pre-classical composer	64
December 31	Johann Friedrich Cotta	German theologian, chancellor and professor primarius of theology in Tübingen
December 31	Johann Joseph Schmidlin	German lexicographer	54

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as
	Joseph Angerer	Rococo sculptor from Salzburg
	Domenico Annibali	Italian old castrato
	Louis-Roch-Antoine-Charles Arnauld	Encyclopedist
	Black Fish	Shawnee Chief
January 13th or February 13th	George Heinrich von Blanckenburg	Prussian district administrator
	Johann Georg Gerstlacher	German Jesuit, missionary in Mexico and the Philippines
	Thomas Huber	German painter
	Ludolf August von Katte	Prussian major and head of the regiment
	Khamtrül Tendzin Chökyi Nyima	4. Khamtrül Rinpoche
	Nikolaus Georg Bernhard von Löwenstern	German lawyer, associate professor at the Princely University of Bützow
	Thomas Lynch junior	Lawyer, one of the signatories of the US Declaration of Independence
	Nicolò Palma	Italian architect between baroque and classicism
	Murk van Phelsum	Dutch doctor
	John Rutherford	Scottish medic and father of Daniel Rutherford, and grandfather of Walter Scott
	Gottfried Anton Schenck	German pastor
	Hieronymus Spiegel	German organ builder
	Theodor Hermann von Spiegel	Landdrost of the Duchy of Westphalia
	Johann Gottfried Strauss	German Protestant court preacher
	Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie	Mistress of the French King Louis XV.
	Thomas Tofield	English botanist and water engineer
	Sawwa Ivanovich Tschewakinsky	Russian architect