Nekrolog 1782
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This is a list of famous people who died in 1782 . 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 | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1st | Johann Christian Bach | German composer and son of Johann Sebastian Bach | 46 | |
| January 1st | Juan Crespí | Spanish missionary | 60 | |
| January 3rd | Friedrich Wilhelm von Thile | Prussian Major General and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 28 | ||
| January 4th | Ange-Jacques Gabriel | French architect | 83 | |
| 11th January | Joseph Johann Kauffmann | Austrian painter | 74 | |
| 13th January | Ernst Heinrich von Czettritz | Prussian lieutenant general | 68 | |
| January 18th | John Pringle | British medic | 74 | |
| January 20th | Christian Ernst Simonetti | Lutheran theologian | 81 | |
| 21th January | Johann Ludwig Nöthiger | Swiss engraver | ||
| January 25th | Carl Samuel Neumann Edler von Buchholt | Member of the provincial administration of the Temescher Banat, hereditary-Austrian nobility | ||
| January 27th | Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau | Princess of Anhalt-Dessau, by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt | 65 | |
| January 27th | Johann Martin Mieding | German carpenter | 56 | |
| January 28th | Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville | French geographer | 84 | |
| January 29th | Johanna Charlotte Unzer | German philosopher | 56 | 
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 9 | Giuseppe Luigi Assemani | Italian orientalist, professor of oriental languages and liturgy | ||
| February 10th | Friedrich Christoph Oetinger | German theologian and pietist | 79 | |
| February 11th | Phaungkaza Maung Maung | burmese king | 18th | |
| 14th of February | Manuel d'Amat i de Junyent | Spanish viceroy in Peru | ||
| 14th of February | Christian Renatus Braun | German lawyer | 67 | |
| February 16 | Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann | German-Danish politician | 57 | |
| February 17th | Joseph I. | Prince von Schwarzenberg, German-Bohemian nobleman | 59 | |
| 20. February | Andreas Trauttner | German surveyor and map maker | 79 | |
| February 24th | François Jean-Philippe de Boccard | French general | 85 | |
| February 26th | José Cadalso | Spanish writer | 40 | |
| February 26th | Giovanni Battista Noferi | Italian violinist and composer | ||
| February 28 | Abraham Louis Michell | Prussian envoy to London and deputy governor of Neuchâtel | ||
| February 28 | Johann Nikolaus Ritter | German organ builder | 79 | 
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st March | Michael Fras | German religious, mathematician and watchmaker | 53 | |
| 1st March | John A. Treutlen | American politician | 48 | |
| 2nd March | Sophie of France | Princess of France and Navarre | 47 | |
| 4th of March | Ernst Martin Chladni | German lawyer | 66 | |
| 4th of March | Gaetano Matteo Pisoni | Swiss architect | 68 | |
| 5. March | Johann Martin Kraemer | German builder and architect | 68 | |
| 7th March | Hennow Ludwig von Barfus | Mayor of Stargard in Pomerania and municipal district administrator | ||
| March 11 | Georg August Langguth | German medic | 70 | |
| March 16 | Johann Friedrich Schönemann | German theater director | 77 | |
| 17. March | Daniel Bernoulli | Swiss mathematician | 82 | |
| March 18th | Ernst Jakob Danovius | Lutheran theologian | 41 | |
| March 22 | Joachim Martin Falbe | Portrait painter, eraser, draftsman | 72 | |
| March 29 | Karl Friedrich Johann Jakob von Linckersdorff | Prussian major general in the army | ||
| March 30 | Johann Gehmacher | Salzburg-Austrian stonemason master of the baroque, judge in Kaisersteinbruch | ||
| March 30 | Jakob Rüdiger von Zastrow | Prussian major general | ||
| March | Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti | Italian-German architect and court architect of Elector Karl Theodor | ||
| March | Johan Vibe | Norwegian poet | 33 | 
April
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd of April | Carl Heinrich von Wedel | Prussian Lieutenant General and Minister of War | 69 | |
| April 5th | Carl Andreas Bel | German author and historian | 64 | |
| April 6th | Johann Tobias Krebs | German philologist and educator | 63 | |
| April 6th | Taksin | King of Siam | 47 | |
| April 8th | Johann Michael Kirschbaum | German master weaver and author | 56 | |
| 10th of April | Johann Sylvius von Rothkirch | Prussian major general | 67 | |
| 12. April | Pietro Metastasio | Italian librettist, lyricist and author | 84 | |
| April 16 | Giuseppe Vasi | Roman engraver and graphic artist | 71 | |
| April 19th | Ludwig von Buddenbrock | Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 16 | 62 | |
| April 19th | Marinos Charvouris | Greek engineer | ||
| April 21 | Jacob Friedrich Werner | German rhetorician and historian | 49 | |
| April 22 | Josef Seger | Bohemian composer, representative of the Old Bohemian School | 66 | |
| April 23 | Christoph Friedrich Duttenhofer | German pastor and silk producer | ||
| April 24th | Hans Jakob Pestalozzi | Swiss entrepreneur | 74 | |
| April 24th | Peter Joseph du Plat | Elector of Hanover cartographer and chief dichgrave | 54 | |
| April 25 | Maria Theresia Isabella von Blumenthal | Philanthropist and chief stewardess to Wilhelmine of Prussia | 69 | |
| 26th of April | Jakob Fröschle | German painter | 40 | |
| April 27 | David Bruhn | German Protestant theologian and hymn poet | 54 | |
| April 27 | John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun | British military | 76 | |
| April 27 | William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot | British nobleman and politician | 71 | |
| April 29 | Johann Ernst von Plötz | royal Prussian colonel, head of a grenadier battalion, later head of the cadet corps and governor of Balga | 
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st of May | Simon August | Count of Lippe | 54 | |
| 2.May | Alexander Gottlieb von Seydlitz | Royal Prussian Major General and Chief of Hussar Regiment No. 8 | ||
| May 4th | Christian Rudolf von Weiher | Prussian Major General and Chief of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 2 | 73 | |
| 5th of May | Bernardino Giraud | Cardinal of the Roman Church | 60 | |
| 5th of May | Jean-Charles Perrinet d'Orval | French pyrotechnician and encyclopedist | ||
| May 6th | Johann Caspar Füssli | Swiss painter and writer | 76 | |
| May 6th | Christine Kirch | Calendar maker and astronomer in Berlin | 85 | |
| May 6th | Roger von Ruttershausen | Austrian district administrator, book censor, assessor of the kk religious consess | 55 | |
| May 6th | Johann Michael Strickner | Austrian master stonemason and baroque sculptor, judge in Kaisersteinbruch | ||
| May 6th | Wilhelm Bernhard Trommsdorff | German physician, chemist and botanist | 43 | |
| May 7th | Carl Hermann Hemmerde | German publisher | 73 | |
| May 7th | Henriette Marie of Brandenburg-Schwedt | Granddaughter of the Great Elector and the daughter of Philipp Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669–1711) | 80 | |
| 8th of May | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello | Head of Government of Portugal | 82 | |
| May 9 | Friedrich Carl von Gram | Danish high court marshal, bailiff and secret conference councilor | 80 | |
| 10th of May | Christian Friedrich von Bandemer | Royal Prussian Major General | 64 | |
| May 13th | Johann August von Hellfeld | German legal scholar | 65 | |
| May 13th | Daniel Solander | Swedish botanist | 49 | |
| May 14th | Magnus Sommar | Swedish theologian | 71 | |
| May 15 | Philipp Friedrich von Rieger | Württemberg general | 59 | |
| May 15 | Richard Wilson | Welsh landscape painter and co-founder of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768 | 67 | |
| May 15 | Eustachio Zanotti | Italian geometer and astronomer | 73 | |
| 17th of May | Karl Leberecht von dem Bussche | Royal Prussian Colonel and Commander of Grenadier Battalion No. 6 | 75 | |
| May 19th | Isaac locks | Mayor of Elberfeld | 74 | |
| May 20th | Ernst Friedrich von Podewils | Pomeranian District Administrator | ||
| May 20th | Christoph Gottlieb Schröter | German composer | 82 | |
| May 21 | Michael Adam Bergmann | German historian, mayor and mayor of Munich | 48 | |
| May 21 | Robert Monckton | General and Governor of the English colony of New York | 55 | |
| May 22 | Friederike Caroline Luise of Hessen-Darmstadt | Princess of Hessen-Darmstadt, by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | 29 | |
| May 22 | Daniel Triller | German medic and writer | 87 | |
| May 22 | Friedrich Gottlieb Zoller | German legal scholar | 64 | |
| May 24th | Carl Heinrich von Peistel | German hymnographer and pietist | 78 | |
| 25. May | Johann Caspar Goethe | Frankfurt lawyer and father of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | 71 | |
| 28th of May | Jacob Wilhelm Haniel | German businessman | 48 | |
| 28th of May | Ernst Friedrich Wernsdorf | German Protestant theologian and church historian | 63 | |
| May | Conrad Lüder from Pentz | Mecklenburg nobleman and genealogist | 53 | 
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2th of June | Ludwig Eberhard von Gemmingen | Hanover government councilor and minister of state as well as Grand Bailiff in Celle and Hanover | 62 | |
| 3rd of June | Ketewan Andronikashvili | Georgian nobles and the first wife of King Giorgi XII. from Kartlien-Kakheti | ||
| 8th June | Johann Wilhelm waiter from Zinnendorf | Founder of the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany | 50 | |
| June 10th | Franz Ludwig von Thürheim | Austrian field marshal | 71 | |
| June 11th | William Crawford | American officer and geometer in the service of George Washington | ||
| June 11th | Juan de Torrezar Díaz y Pimienta | Viceroy of New Granada | ||
| June 13th | Anna Göldi | Swiss justice victim | 47 | |
| 18th of June | Marcantonio Marcolini | Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church | 60 | |
| 18th of June | John Wood the Younger | British builder | ||
| June 21st | Georg Wilhelm of Hessen-Darmstadt | Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt | 59 | |
| June 26th | Antonio Visentini | Italian architect and painter | 93 | 
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1 | Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham | British Prime Minister | 52 | |
| 3rd of July | Esteban de Terreros y Pando | Spanish philologist, lexicographer and Jesuit | 74 | |
| July 11th | Adam Dietrich | German botanist | 70 | |
| July 13th | Joseph Pickford | English builder and architect | ||
| 15th of July | Isaac Iselin | Swiss history philosopher active in journalism during the Enlightenment | 54 | |
| 16th of July | Luise Ulrike of Prussia | Swedish queen | 61 | |
| July 19 | Joseph Fuchs | German Benedictine priest and court archaeologist in Mainz | ||
| 20th of July | Karl Joseph von Firmian | Austrian statesman | 65 | |
| 21 July | Placidus from Camerloher | German pre-classical composer | 63 | |
| 21 July | Karl | Duke of Saxe-Meiningen | 27 | |
| 22nd of July | Gennaro Basile | Italian painter and draftsman | 
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2nd | Andreas Schickhardt | ducal-Württemberg chamber clerk | 71 | |
| 6th of August | Nicolas Chédeville | French Baroque composer | 77 | |
| August 7th | Andreas Sigismund Marggraf | German chemist | 73 | |
| August 9 | Ludwig Heinrich Mollwo | Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck | ||
| August 10 | Johann Gottlob Thierbach | German educator | 46 | |
| August 14th | Christian Gottfried Struensee | German educator and author | 65 | |
| 15th of August | Joseph von Bolza | Saxon financier and banker, Bohemian textile entrepreneur | 63 | |
| 15th of August | Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray | French gambist and composer | 83 | |
| August 19th | Francesco De Mura | Italian painter | 86 | |
| August 19th | Stephen Trigg | American pioneer and soldier of the state of Virginia | ||
| 20th of August | Alfred of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover | Member of the British royal family from the House of Hanover | 1 | |
| August 22nd | Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau | French botanist and engineer | 82 | |
| August 25 | Marianne Auenbrugger | Austrian pianist and composer | 23 | |
| August 27 | Henriette Maria Luise von Hayn | German poet of sacred songs | 58 | 
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th September | Bartolina Sisa | Wife of Tupac Katari | ||
| September 6th | Giovanni Battista Cacherano di Bricherasio | Piedmontese general | 75 | |
| September 6th | Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson | American wife of Jefferson | 33 | |
| 7th of September | Reimar von Kleist | Prussian major general | 72 | |
| the 9th of September | Martin Anton von Puttkamer | Prussian major general and heir to the estate | 84 | |
| September 14th | Nicholas Cooke | American politician | 65 | |
| 16th September | Farinelli | Italian castrato | 77 | |
| September 23rd | Mathias Etenhueber | German poet | 60 | |
| September 24th | Jules Crozet | French navigator and explorer | 53 | |
| September 28th | Friedrich Theodor Withof | German classical philologist and rector of the academic high school in Lingen | 50 | 
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th October | Heinrich Sander | German teacher and writer | 27 | |
| October 11th | Ludwig von Wangen-Geroldseck | Prince-Bishop of Basel | 55 | |
| 15th October | Johann Georg Oegg | Prince-bishop's locksmith and blacksmith | 79 | |
| 23rd October | Joseph Riepel | German music theorist | 73 | |
| October 26th | Jacob Engelbert Teschemacher | German organ builder | 71 | |
| October | Charles Lee | British soldier and Continental Army general in the American Revolutionary War | 50 | 
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1st | Jean-Charles Colombot | French architect | 63 | |
| November 9th | Anna Dorothea Therbusch | German Rococo painter | 61 | |
| November 10th | Marianne Pirker | German opera singer | 65 | |
| November 13th | Jacques Montet | French chemist, pharmacist, encyclopaedist | 60 | |
| November 19th | Benjamin Gottlieb Lorenz Boden | German historian and literary scholar | 45 | |
| November 19th | Maria Christina of Saxony | Electoral Saxon-Polish princess, later lady of the star cross and princess abbess of the free worldly imperial monastery in Remiremont | 47 | |
| 21st November | Jacques de Vaucanson | French engineer, inventor and aviation pioneer | 73 | |
| November 24th | Stefano Evodio Assemani | Lebanese orientalist | 75 | |
| 30th of November | André-Joseph Blavier | Belgian composer and conductor | 68 | 
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2. December | Christian Friedrich Polz | German logician and Protestant theologian | 68 | |
| 2. December | Friedrich Ehrenreich von Ramin | Prussian lieutenant general | 73 | |
| 3rd of December | Nikolaus Lorenz von Puttkamer | Prussian lieutenant general | 79 | |
| December 7th | Haidar Ali | South Indian general and opponent of the British East India Company | ||
| 9th of December | Ludovico Calini | Italian clergyman, bishop and cardinal of the Roman Church | 86 | |
| 9th of December | Heinrich Wilhelm Muzel | German officer and councilor | 59 | |
| 10th of December | Johann Baptist Lethner | builder | ||
| 13th December | Carl Friedrich Aichinger | German linguist | 65 | |
| 13th December | Christian Friedrich Boetius | German engraver | 76 | |
| 13th December | Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterichs | Architect, engineer, and construction officer | 80 | |
| 15th December | Guillaume François Berthier | French Jesuit and publicist | 78 | |
| 19. December | Andreas Mayer | German mathematician | 66 | |
| December 22 | Georg Wilhelm Detharding | German legal scholar and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck | 81 | |
| December 26th | Wilhelm Anton von der Asseburg | Prince-Bishop of Paderborn (1763–1782) | 75 | |
| December 26th | Scipione Borghese | Cardinal of the Catholic Church | 48 | |
| December 27th | Henry Home Kames | Scottish lawyer and philosopher | ||
| December 28th | Maria Carolina of Savoy | Princess of Sardinia and by marriage Princess of Saxony | 18th | |
| December 28th | Georg Friedrich Stabel | German chemist and doctor | 95 | |
| December 31 | Christian Gärtner | German telescope maker and astronomer | 77 | |
| December 31 | Sebastian Georg Helbling von Hirzenfeld | Austrian naturalist | 
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Ludwig Abresch | Dutch philologist of German origin | |||
| Gerhard Friedrich Albrecht | Lawyer, genealogist and publicist | |||
| Karl Andrassy de Szent Király | military | |||
| Anna Maria dal violin | Italian violinist and violin teacher | |||
| Pedro Avondano | Portuguese composer and violinist | |||
| Simon Moritz Bethmann | German merchant and banker | |||
| August Aleksander Czartoryski | Polish military | |||
| Damian Hugo von Helmstatt | Imperial Knight | |||
| Wilhelm von Danckelmann | Prussian Minister of State | |||
| Johann Gottfried Donati | German composer and organist | |||
| John Fothergill | English engineer and entrepreneur | |||
| Ferdinando Fuga | Italian architect | |||
| Johann Adolf Friedrich von Gentzkow | German writer | |||
| Heinrich Ludwig von Gotter | Prussian Lieutenant Colonel, Chief of Garrison Battalion No. 4 | |||
| Christian Großbayer | German builder of the late baroque | |||
| Benedict of Herman | Swabian long-distance trade merchant | |||
| Peter Hess | German gem cutter | |||
| Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni | Italian painter | |||
| Jacques Marquet | French architect | |||
| Matonabbee | Indian, chief of the Chipewyan tribe | |||
| Jean Novi de Caveirac | French ultra-conservative cleric and writer | |||
| Hyde Parker | British admiral | |||
| Phraya Phichai | Siamese nobleman and henchman | |||
| Jean-Martin de Prades | French theologian, contributor to the Encyclopédie | |||
| Sadiq Khan | Shah of Persia from the dynasty of the Zand princes | |||
| Franz Xaver Bad | German musician and composer | |||
| Christian Heinrich Siegel | German mathematician | |||
| Johann Rudolf Sinner | Swiss magistrate | |||
| Adrian van Steckhoven | Dutch gardener | |||
| Franz Joseph Steinböck | Austrian stonemason master of the Baroque, 1768 and 1776 head of the Viennese building works | |||
| Pierre Chrysostème d'Usson de Bonnac | French diplomat | 
