Necrology 1780

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1780 . 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 Ludwig Krebs	German composer and organist	66
10. January	Francesco Antonio Vallotti	Italian composer	82
13th January	Luise of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	Princess of Prussia and wife of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia	57
15. January	Carl Josef Maria Brentano-Cimaroli	Entrepreneur from the extensive Brentano family
15. January	Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli	Swiss agronomist	63
21th January	Johann Gottlieb Frenzel	German lawyer	64
22nd of January	André Levret	French gynecologist	77
January 24th	Jean-Baptiste-Michel Bucquet	French doctor and chemist	33
January 24th	Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn	Diplomat in the Saxon service, art theorist and collector, also amateur engraver	67
January 24th	Hiraga Gennai	Japanese scholar, inventor and writer
January 28th	Emanuel Friedrich von Bredow	Prussian military and nobleman	47
31 January	Jonathan Carver	American-British explorer	69

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Wolfgang Adam Knoll	German sculptor
February 4th	Giovanni Battista Passeri	Italian archaeologist, poet and papal official	85
February 5th	Heinrich Christian Körtje	German master builder	61
February 9	Gabriel de Saint-Aubin	French painter, draftsman and engraver	55
February 10th	Johann	Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld zu Gelnhausen	81
February 12th	Friedrich Wilhelm Lölhöffel von Löwensprung	Prussian lieutenant general	62
14th of February	William Blackstone	English lawyer	56
14th of February	Johann Aloys I. zu Oettingen-Spielberg	Prince of the Principality of Oettingen-Spielberg	73
February 15th	Jan de Beijer	Dutch draftsman	76
February 18	Kristijonas Donelaitis	German-Baltic writer	66
February 18	Johann Gustav von Güldenstubbe	Land Marshal von Ösel (Livonia)	48
21st of February	Franz Xaver Bernhard	German Baroque painter	53
February 22	Francesco III. d'Este	Duke of Modena and Reggio	81
February 22	Giovanni Maria Morlaiter	Venetian sculptor
February 22	Maria Anna of Naples and Sicily	Princess of Naples-Sicily	4th
February 24th	Andreas Felix from Oefele	German historian and librarian	73
February 24th	Johann Adam Pollich	German doctor and naturalist	39
February 25	Mariano Fernández de Echeverría y Veytia	Mexican historian

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3 March	Joseph Highmore	English portrait and history painter	87
4th of March	Joachim Ulrich Giese	Swedish-Pomeranian councilor, mint director and founder of the Stralsund faience factory	60
6th March	Franz Anton Josef von Hausen-Gleichenstorff	Religious, prince provost of Berchtesgaden (1768–1780)
the 14th of March	Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre	Spanish archaeologist
25th March	James Forbes	American politician
26th of March	Charles I.	Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel	66
March 29	Otto Ludwig von Stutterheim	Prussian Lieutenant General and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 20

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 5th	Johann Gerhard Christian Rücker	German legal scholar
April 6th	Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth	Princess of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Duchess of Württemberg	47
9th April	Giuseppe Maria Castelli	Italian cardinal	74
11 April	Moritz Wilhelm von der Asseburg	Prussian major general, lieutenant governor of Magdeburg	81
11 April	Richard Fydell	British wine merchant and politician
April 14th	Johann Philipp Ludwig Ignaz von Frankenstein	Würzburg Canon and President of the Würzburg Upper Council	79
20th of April	Johannes Plücker	Mayor of Elberfeld	68
April 21	Carl Deichman	Danish-Norwegian factory owner and book collector
April 21	Johann Samuel Wiesner	German Protestant theologian and orientalist	57
April 21	Ferdinand Zellbell	Swedish organist and composer	60
April 22	Hieronymus Hartwig Moller	German lawyer and judge	68
April 23	Maria Antonia of Bavaria	Electress of Saxony, artist	55
April 23	Romoaldo Guidi	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	58
April 23	Karl Ludwig von Normann	Prussian major general	75
April 29	Claude-Joseph Dorat	French author	45
April, 30th	Juan de Miralles	Spanish merchant and envoy at the Continental Congress

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 4th	Christian Ernst Friederici	German organ and piano builder	71
May 13th	Christoph Ludwig von der Mülbe	royal Prussian major general
May 14th	Pierre-Montan Berton	French composer, conductor and tenor	53
May 18	Charles Hardy	Governor of the English colony of New York
May 21	Franz Balthasar Schönberg von Brenkenhoff	Prussian state landlord	57
May 22	Franz Ludwig von Holnstein	Bavarian general and ducal governor	56
May 26	Hans von Ahlefeldt	Privy councilor and bailiff in the Danish civil service and Landdrost in Pinneberg	70
May 26	Guillaume-François Le Trosne	French lawyer and economist	51
May 27th	Johann Heinrich Waser	Swiss pastor, statistician, economist and educator	38
May 27th	Conrad Siegmund Drag	German Protestant theologian	52
May	Raimund Bruns	German Dominican and theological author	74

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2th of June	Jozef Baka	Polish poet, preacher and Jesuit	73
3rd of June	Thomas Hutchinson	Last civil governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay	68
8th June	Marc-Michel Rey	publisher	60
18th of June	Johann Philipp Seuffert	Main Franconian organ builder	87
20th June	Johann Gottlob Böhme	German historian	63
20th June	Christoph Meissner	German teacher and chronicler	76
June 21st	Karl Andreas Christiani	German philosopher	72
June 21st	Jan Stephan Ligenza Kurdwanowski	Polish doctor, military and encyclopedist	99
June 26th	Ferdinand Ambrosius Fidler	Austrian-German, initially Roman-Catholic, then Evangelical-Lutheran clergyman and university professor	42
June 30th	Karl Paul Ernst of Bentheim-Steinfurt	Count of Steinfurt	50

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Stephen Crane	American politician
2nd July	David Samuel of Madai	Hungarian physician and numismatist working in Germany	71
3rd of July	Johann Michael Beer from Bildstein	Austrian architect	84
July 4th	Charles Alexander of Lorraine	Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Field Marshal General and Governor of the Netherlands	67
July 4th	Samuel Musgrave	English classical philologist and doctor	47
8th of July	Gerhard Schøning	Norwegian historian	58
July 11th	Mango Hans	Estonian preacher, man of letters and theological translator
July 11th	Luis Eugenio Meléndez	Spanish painter of still life
July 14th	Charles Batteux	French esthete	67
July 14th	Gotthard Friedrich Carstens	Lübeck merchant and councilor
July 18th	Bernhardinus de Moor	Dutch Reformed theologian	71
21 July	Friedrich August von Schenckendorf	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 9

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd August	Etienne Bonnot de Condillac	French philosopher of the Enlightenment	65
4th of August	Titus Hosmer	American lawyer, judge, and politician
4th of August	Didericus van der Kemp	Dutch Reformed theologian	48
6th of August	Joseph Wanton Jr.	British loyalist, trader and politician	50
8th August	Pierre-Martial Cibot	French Jesuit, missionary and scholar in China	52
8th August	Tadeusz Reytan	Polish member of the Sejm	37
August 9	Christoph Gottlob Grundig	German theologian, mineralogist and publicist	72
12. August	Ludwig von Stein	German colonel, baron and benefactor of the city of Zweibrücken	87
August 16	Johann Henrik von Schacht	Royal Danish major general, most recently chief of the 2nd Berghuser National Infantry Regiment
17th August	Ferdinand Stosch	German reformed theologian	62
August 19th	Johann von Kalb	German-American general	59
August 23	Marie de Vichy Chamrond	French salonière	82
August 25	Johann Baptist Baader	German church painter
26th of August	Johann Christoph Pohl	German medic	74
August 27	Johann Wilhelm Fuhrmann	German Protestant theologian and university professor	29
August 28th	Nathanael Burger	German Franciscan, Apostolic Vicar and Bishop in China	47
29th August	Jacques-Germain Soufflot	French architect	67
August 30th	Romuald Hadbavný	Slovak Camaldolese monk	65
August 31	Gottfried Daniel Hoffmann	German lawyer	61

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Johann Georg von Grechtler	Austrian General Sergeant, Privy Councilor and owner of several manors	75
September 4th	John Fielding	British judge
September 6th	Françoise Basseporte	French painter and engraver	79
7th of September	Franz Lamotte	Flemish violinist and composer
September 8th	Peter Matthias Haselberg	State Legal Counsel of Swedish Pomerania	67
September 8th	Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont	French novelist and author	69
September 8th	Enoch Poor	American shipbuilder and dealer	44
September 15th	Jacob Rodrigues Pereira	Portuguese deaf teacher	65
16th September	Henry IX. Reuss to Köstritz	Count Reuss zu Köstritz, Prussian minister	69
17th of September	Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Erthal	Würzburg Canon and Privy Councilor	63
September 18	Heymann Heine	Jewish merchant
September 23rd	Ernst Friedrich III.	Duke of Saxony-Hildburghausen	53
September 24th	Georg August von Wangenheim	Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg General of the Infantry; later commander of the Hamelin Fortress	73
September 26th	Adam Nietzki	German medic	66
September 27th	Jean Pierre Sauvage	French portrait painter	81

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Johann Andreas Josef von der Borch	Polish Grand Chancellor
October 3	Jan Jílek	Representative of the Bohemian Protestant movement and co-founder of the Bohemian refugee settlement Böhmisch Rixdorf near Berlin
4th of October	Ludwig von Zinzendorf	Austrian statesman	59
October 6th	Ignaz Sichelbarth	German missionary	72
October 7th	Patrick Ferguson	British weapons designer and officer
October 13th	Johann Friedrich Daniel Olff	German Protestant theologian	54
October 14th	Johann Georg Fischer	German organ builder	83
October 17th	Bernardo Bellotto	Italian painter	58
October 17th	William Cookworthy	English pharmacist, chemist and inventor	75
October 19th	Johann Heinrich Roth	German builder	51
October 26th	Gerhard Caspar Bigeleben	Official of the ecclesiastical court in Werl
October 29th	Edmund Voit	German priest, Jesuit and university professor, religious provincial	73
October	Sophronios of Kilis	orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem and Constantinople

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 2	Lobsang Pelden Yeshe	Tibetan Buddhist; received the third title of Penchen Lama and is considered the 6th Penchen Lama of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
November 2	Alexander Ludwig von Wattenwyl	Swiss historian and politician	66
November 5th	Christian Friedrich Voigt	German organ builder and organist
November 10th	Mikael Bedros III. Kasbarian	Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenian Catholic Church
November 12th	Johann Gottfried Weller	German Protestant clergyman	68
14th November	Jacobus Houbraken	Dutch engraver	81
November 16	Christian Heinrich Breuning	German legal scholar	60
November 16	Nicolas Gilbert	French author	29
November 19th	Jocelyn Deane	Irish politician
25. November	Joachim Matthias Lütkens	Mayor of Lübeck	67
November 26th	James Denham-Steuart	British economist	68
November 29th	Peter Gallade	Jesuit, theologian, university professor in Heidelberg and Bamberg	72
November 29th	Hieronymus David Gaub	German physician and chemist	75
November 29th	Maria Theresa	Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia	63

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
December 1	Johan yours	Swedish linguist	73
6th of December	Joseph Wannenmacher	German painter	58
11th December	Leopold Johann von Platen	Royal Prussian Major General
12th of December	Jakob Fellner	German-Moravian baroque master builder in Hungary	58
December 14th	Ignatius Sancho	English composer and writer
15th December	Johann Gotthard Schlichthorst	German theologian	57
December 16	Juan Tomás de Boxadors y Sureda de San Martín	Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church	77
21st December	Christiana Regina Hetzer	first landlady of the Gohliser Schlösschen in Leipzig	56
December 22	James Harris	English scholar and politician	71
December 26th	John Fothergill	English medic, botanist, Quaker and philanthropist	68
December 31	Samuel David Ludwig Henne	Saxon pastor and pomologist	68

Date unknown

Surname	Profession known as	Age
Benedetta Emilia Agricola	Italian opera singer with a soprano voice
Anna Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Dessau	Child of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau
Heinrich Wilhelm Behm	German doctor and court pharmacist Frederick II.
Johann Wolfgang Bieglein-Kreussler	Fencing master in Jena
Pietro Borsieri	Italian doctor
Carl Friedrich Ernst von Cocceji	Polish major general and envoy
Jakob Emele	South German baroque master builder
Silvestre Velez de Escalante	Spanish Franciscan, missionary and explorer
Domenico Ferrari	Italian violinist and composer of the early classical period
Franz Xaver of Montfort	German nobleman, last ruling representative of the House of Montfort
Rudolf Emanuel Frisching	Councilor
Johann Friedrich Glocker	German painter	62
Daniel Friedrich Hindersin	Mayor of Koenigsberg
Georg Andreas Högl	Austrian baroque stonemason
Rudolf August von Ingersleben	Prussian Colonel, Commander of Grenadier Battalion No. 2
Ludwig gap	German sculptor
Mosque Margolies	Commentator on the Palestinian Talmud
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda	Bohemian violinist and pre-classical composer
Ngwane III.	King of Swaziland (–1780)
Grandma	Polynesian world traveler
Johann Heinrich Valentin Paul	German noble Rhön robber, legendary figure
Nicolas Joseph Thiéry de Ménonville	French botanist
Konrad Alexander Vrints von Treuenfeld	imperial postmaster and resident in Bremen
Joseph Wagner	German rococo engraver