Nekrolog 1781

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1781 . 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 5th	Christoph Ernst von Hoverbeck	Prussian Major General, Chief of Cuirassier Regiment No. 6	55
6th January	Otto Wilhelm Christian von Schack	Prussian officer and chief of a free battalion
6th January	Johann Gottlob Werner	German Protestant theologian	61
January 7th	Julien Busson	French medic	63
January 9th	Hans Weiprecht of Gemmingen	Landlord in Franconian Crumbach, Hanoverian privy councilor and knight council of the knightly canton of Odenwald	57
13th January	Raymund Anton von Strasoldo	Bishop of the Diocese of Eichstätt and Prince-Bishop of the Hochstift Eichstätt	62
15. January	Tomás Katari	Leader of an Indian uprising in Peru in 1780
15. January	Maria Anna Viktoria of Spain	Princess of Spain and Queen of Portugal	62
January 19th	Franz Anton Dürr	Baden entrepreneur, founder of the Herrenwies glassworks and the Hundsbacher accord
21th January	William Lewis	English chemist
January 25th	Ernst Heinrich Mylius	German legal scholar and Württemberg politician	64
January 27th	Anna Clara Manera	German woman, donor of the organ of St. Ignaz in Mainz
January 28th	Johann Moritz von Strachwitz	Catholic theologian, vicar apostolic and auxiliary bishop in Breslau	59
January 30th	Jakob Leonhard Vogel	Lübeck council surgeon	86

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Jan Mikołaj Chodkiewicz	General in the Royal Polish Army (from 1774)	42
February 4th	Josef Mysliveček	Czech composer	43
February 8	Johann Friedrich Unger	German politician, arithmetic and market researcher	66
February 12th	John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun	peer	76
13th February	Sebastian Pagador	Freedom fighters in the indigenous uprising (1781) in Upper Peru
February 15th	Anna Franziska Benda	Bohemian-German singer
February 15th	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	German poet of the Enlightenment	52
February 17th	Diedrich Heinrich Taube from Odenkat	Swedish count, admiral	69
February 22	Johann Jakob Höfler	German lawyer	67
February 23	George Taylor	Irish-British-American metalworker, signatory of the United States' Declaration of Independence
February 24th	Edward Capell	English Shakespeare scholar	67
February 28	Richard Stockton	British-American lawyer, one of the founding fathers of the United States	50

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye	French historian, philogist and antiquarian	83
2nd March	Friedrich Heinrich Eugen of Anhalt-Dessau	Chiefs of the Corps of the Prussian Hussar Regiment 1	75
2nd March	Michael Schüppach	Swiss surgeon, doctor, pharmacist and spa doctor
3 March	Nicolas Dupont	French organ builder of the Rococo	66
7th March	Theodor Christoph Lilienthal	German Lutheran theologian	63
March 12th	Otto Christoph von Podewils	Prussian diplomat and budget minister	61
the 14th of March	Maximilian von Mauschwitz	Prussian Major General, Chief of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 5
March, 15	Friedrich Wilhelm von Roeder	Prussian major general, chief of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 1, governor of Zechlin, Wittstock and Londow as well as feudal and court lord of Rothsieben in Silesia	62
March 16	Jean Esprit Isnard	French Dominican and organ builder	74
17. March	Johannes Ewald	Danish poet	37
March 18th	Anne Robert Jacques Turgot	French statesman and pre-classical economist	53
March, 20th	Vincent Rumpff	German Mayor	79
March 21st	Carl von Ulm zu Erbach	German lawyer	55
27th of March	Eberhard Heinrich Daniel Stosch	German reformed theologian	65
28th March	Gottfried Jacob Jänisch	German doctor and freemason	73
March 29	Johann Theodor Keyßner	German composer, violinist and Kapellmeister
March 31	Carl Schleiermacher	German doctor	71
March	Friedrich von Wurmb	German botanist	38

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of April	Johann Anton Güldenstädt	German-Baltic naturalist and explorer	35
3rd of April	Enno Johann Heinrich Tjaden	East Frisian lawyer and science historian	58
7th of April	Johann Michael Söckler	German engraver	36
April 8th	Heinrich Christian von Offenberg	Politician and regent in Courland
11 April	Claude Courtépée	French historian and geographer	60
11 April	Joseph Gregor Winck	German painter and plasterer	70
April 14th	Johann Heinrich Gravenhorst	German chemist and entrepreneur	61
April 21	Primislaff Ulrich von Kleist	royal Prussian major general
April 21	Adam Philipp Losy from Losinthal	Austrian statesman, court building director and musician
April 22	Georg Philipp Mylius	Mayor of Heilbronn (1758–1781)	84
26th of April	Axel Albrecht von Maltzahn	Prussian district administrator, hereditary marshal	88
April 28	James Abercrombie	British general in the French and Indian War
April 28	Cornelius Harnett	American merchant, farmer, justice of the peace and politician	58

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 6th	Karl Friedrich von Wolffersdorff	Saxon, later Prussian officer, finally lieutenant general	64
8th of May	Friederike	youngest daughter of the Württemberg Duke Friedrich August from the Württemberg-Neuenstadt line	81
May 11th	Ignazio da Laconi	Italian capuchin and mystic	79
12th of May	Karl von Podjursky	Royal Prussian Major General, Chief of Hussar Regiment No. 4	61
May 13th	William Phillips	Artillery officer in the British Army who served as major general in the American Revolutionary War
May 15	Volkhard Mindemann	Bremen lawyer, councilor and mayor	76
May 16	Karl Ferdinand Hommel	German lawyer and professor at the University of Leipzig	59
May 16	Giacomo Puccini	Italian composer and organist	69
May 18	Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua	Leader of an Indian uprising in Peru in 1781
May 18	Tomasa Tito Condemayta	Peruvian queen and insurgent
May 18	José Gabriel Condorcanqui	Leader of the Indian uprising in Peru in 1780/81	43
May 20th	Christian Gottlob Frege	German merchant and councilor	65
25. May	Abraham Petrovich Hannibal	Prince of Eritrea and Russian Major General
May 26	Andreas Weber	German philosopher and Lutheran theologian	63
May 27th	Giambatista Beccaria	Italian physicist	64

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 5th	Noël Hallé	French painter and writer	69
June 5th	Giovanni Ottavio Manciforte Sperelli	Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church	78
14th June	Johann Martin Krafft	Medalist and coin die cutter	43
25th June	Samuel Gotthold Lange	German poet and pietist	70

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd July	Anton Abraham von Steinkeller	Prussian major general, commander of Berlin, governor of Schlanstäde and Oschersleben
7th of July	Johann Georg Beer	German architect and builder	80
July 11th	Carl Christoph Frauenlob	German piece, Roth and Glockengiesser	72
July 11th	Adolf Karl Kunzen	German composer and organist	60
July 13th	Leopold Georg von Kameke	royal Prussian major and commander of a grenadier battalion	56
15th of July	Matthieu Soiron	Dutch builder	59
16th of July	Christoph Erhard Faulhaber	German mathematician, physicist and theologian	72
17th July	Johann Friedrich Weyhing	German architect	64
July 18th	Johann Friedrich Esper	German natural scientist and theologian	48
July 18th	Georg Heinrich Conrad Hüttemann	Lutheran missionary in India	53
July 23	John Joachim Zubly	Swiss pastor, farmer and politician during the American Revolution	56
July 27th	Johann Heinrich Master	Swiss Protestant theologian and clergyman	81
29th of July	Johann Kies	German astronomer	67
30th July	Carl August von Veltheim	German Lieutenant General and Inspector General of the Hanoverian Cavalry	62
July 31	Friedrich Karl August	Knight	75

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 2nd	August Wilhelm	Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Prussian infantry general	65
8th August	Johann Peter Schwartz	German Protestant theologian	60
August 16	Charles-François de Broglie	French diplomat	61
18th of August	Franz Josef I.	Prince of Liechtenstein	54
18th of August	Giuseppe Torelli	Italian mathematician	59
26th of August	Johann Gottfried Gellius	German translator	49
August 28th	Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten	German Lutheran theologian	72
29th August	Dorothea Widmer	Spouse murderess

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 8th	Karl Maximilian of Saxony	Saxon prince, officer and head of the regiment	28
September 10	Katharina von Zimmermann	Well-known Goethe
September 11	Johann August Ernesti	German theologian and philologist	74
12th September	Gotthard Hilzinger	South German baroque painter	63
12th September	Peter Scheemakers	Flemish sculptor	90
September 14th	Heinrich Gottlieb Francke	German lawyer	76
September 15th	Heinrich Otto Duysing	German Protestant theologian and university professor	62
September 19th	Tobias Furneaux	British explorer	46
September 20th	Johann Elias Glaser	German businessman
September 26th	Carl Friedrich Stavenhagen	German historian and city secretary in Anklam	57
30. September	Albrecht Immanuel Driesenthal	German Protestant theologian	57
30. September	Jean Baptiste Leprince	French painter	47

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Hermann Ebel	German painter
October 1	Ferdinand Eugen von Franken-Siersdorf	Priest and Canon in Cologne	67
4th of October	August Leberecht Wilke	German philologist and Protestant theologian	44
9th October	Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie	Scottish peer, violinist and composer	49
October, 16th	Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke	British admiral	76
October 17th	Ceslaus Gotthard von Schaffgotsch	Vicar General in the Archdiocese of Wroclaw	54
October 17th	Nathaniel Scudder	American doctor, politician and militia commander	48
October 22nd	Johann August Nahl the Elder	German sculptor and plasterer	71
October 27	Herman-François Delange	Belgian composer and violinist of the pre-classical period	66
October	Anton Zimmermann	Austrian pre-classical composer

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 2	José Francisco de Isla	Spanish writer and translator	78
November 3rd	Jakob Emanuel Handmann	Swiss painter	63
November 4th	Faustina Bordoni	Italian singer	84
November 4th	Johann Nikolaus Götz	German clergyman, writer and translator	60
November 5th	John Parke Custis	American planter and stepson of George Washington	26th
November 9th	Georg Christoph von Blanckensee	Prussian district administrator	70
November 10th	Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve	French economist and encyclopaedist	78
November 13th	Rochus Friedrich zu Lynar	Diplomat in the service of the Danish crown	72
15th of November	Julián Apaza	Leader of an indigenous uprising in Upper Peru in 1781/82
15th of November	Johann Andreas Hünigen	German builder	69
November 17th	Johann Peter Miller	German classical philologist and pedagogue	76
November 17th	Bernard-Joseph Saurin	French lawyer, poet and playwright
20th November	Johann Friedrich von Domhardt	Prussian administrative officer	69
21st November	Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas	French statesman	80
November 24th	Philipp Jakob Heisler	German legal scholar	62
25. November	Hans Henrik von Liewen the Younger	Swedish count, Reichsrat, politician and lieutenant general
November 26th	Christian Ludwig von Hardenberg	German field marshal	81
November 27th	Johann von Buddenbrock	German lieutenant general	74
30th of November	Théodore Tronchin	Swiss-French doctor	72
November	Bunsan	King of the Lao Empire of Vientiane

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Zenón de Somodevilla y Bengoechea	Spanish statesman	79
9th of December	Johann Martin Müller	German educator	59
11th December	Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer	British politician
12th of December	Christophe de Beaumont	French archbishop	78
December 14th	Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz	Prussian general of the Frederician epoch	58
December 16	Georg Simon Löhlein	German violinist, pianist, composer and music teacher	56
21st December	Gregorio Mayans y Siscar	Spanish lawyer, historian, philologist, Romance philologist and Hispanist	82
21st December	Johan Henrik Scheffel	Swedish painter	91
23rd of December	Karl David Schuchardt	Protestant theologian	64
23rd of December	Kaspar Rudolph von Unruh	Prussian major and chief of grenadier battalion No. 2	71
December 28th	Daniel Bruckner	Swiss historian	74
December 28th	Otto Friedrich Horns	German Lutheran theologian, deacon and writer	35
December 29th	Carl Ludwig von Ingersleben	Prussian major general	72
30th of December	John Turberville Needham	Roman Catholic priest and English naturalist	68

Date unknown

Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
Ablai	Kazakh Khan of the Middle Horde
Johann Heinrich Ludwig Bergius	German administrative scientist
Gaspard de Besse	French robber
Myrick Davies	Georgia Governor
Johann August Leberecht Keferstein	German paper miller, entrepreneur and inventor
Johannes Girtanner from Luxburg	Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and Princely Palatinate-Zweibrücken Privy Council
Guillaume Le Blond	French mathematician, encyclopedist and military theorist
Juan de Ledesma	Spanish violinist and pre-classical composer
Ma Mingxin	Chinese Islamist, Jahriyya-Menhuan
Jama ka Ndaba	Zulu rulers of South Africa
Man Page	American politician
Giovan Battista Perasso	Italian folk hero
Johann Friedrich Probst	German engraver
Johann Christoph Schmidt	Princely Mansfeld court and mountain ridge and finally office director in Eisleben
Samuel Conrad Schwach	Printer and publisher
Anna Maria Schwegelin	Maid and last "witch" who was sentenced to death in what is now Germany, the sentence was not carried out
Gottfried Sonnholz	Austrian organ builder
Su forty three	Muslim clergyman
Johann Christian Wäser	German actor and independent theater director	38	ADB: Wäser, Johann Christian
Léon d'Ymbault	last Moldovan mayor of Chernivtsi before the annexation of Bukovina in 1775