Nekrolog 1785

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1785 . 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 3rd	Baldassare Galuppi	Italian composer	78
January 4th	Hans Georg Woldeck von Arneburg	Prussian major general	72
January 4th	Johann Gottfried Körner	German Protestant theologian	58
January 9th	Jean-Baptiste Brequin de Demenge	Austrian officer and scientist	72
10. January	Henry William Stiegel	German-American glassblower	55
January 14th	Fanny from Ickstatt	German writer	17th
January 18th	Johann Philipp Breidenstein	German camera scientist
21th January	Christian August von Eyben	German lawyer and cathedral dean	84
21th January	Johann Caspar Lecke	German lawyer and entrepreneur, Lord Mayor of Iserlohn (since 1737)	90
22nd of January	Karl August von Gemmingen	Chamberlain and Major General of Württemberg	68
22nd of January	Adolph Friedrich Vogel	German doctor, gynecologist and surgeon	36
January 25th	Franz Häffele	German baroque master builder
January 25th	Paul von Werner	Prussian Lieutenant General, bearer of the Pour le Merite	77
January 28th	Johann Gottfried Clemen	German plantation owner	56
January 30th	Anton Rolandsson Martin	Swedish polar explorer and botanist	55
January	Karl Kuno Ludwig von Klitzing	Prussian major general	56
January	Wilhelm Ludolph von Ripperda	Canon of Halberstadt

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 8	Josias Lorck	German pastor and Bible collector	62
February 9	Wilhelm Bernhard Jester	German lawyer	49
February 9	Jacques Rochette de La Morlière	French libertine, writer, playwright, journalist and pamphlet writer	65
February 11th	Ali Murad Khan	Shah of Persia from the dynasty of the Zand princes
13th February	Franz Lorenz Richter	Austrian organ builder	62
February 15th	Georg Friedrich Dinglinger II.	German fortress builder	83
February 17th	Christian August Förtsch	German doctor, librettist and freemason
February 17th	Christian Wilhelm Küstner	Electoral lawyer and mayor of the city of Leipzig	64
February 18	Gottlieb Anastasius Freylinghausen	German Protestant theologian; Director of the Hallesches Orphanage	65
19th of February	Johann Ludwig Conradi	German lawyer	54
19th of February	Johann Christoph Richter	German composer, pantaleon player and organist	84
20. February	Philipp of Gemmingen	Director of the knight canton Kraichgau and knight captain of the knight canton Odenwald	82
February 23	Lazzaro Opizio Pallavicini	Italian cardinal and cardinal secretary of state	65
February 24th	Johann Friedrich Ernst Benda	German chamber musician and composer
February 24th	Carlo Buonaparte	Father of Joseph Bonaparte and Napoleon Bonaparte	38
February 25	Gottlieb Friedrich Bach	German musician and painter	70
February 26th	Barbara Erni	Vagante and thief; last person executed in Liechtenstein	42
27th of February	Jacob Gijsbert Woertman	Dutch medic	62
February	Grigore Maior	Bishop of Făgăraș

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd March	Friedrich Justus Riedel	German author and university professor	42
3 March	Balthasar Ferdinand Moll	Austrian sculptor	68
5. March	Joseph Reed	American politician	43
9th March	Joseph Hörr	German sculptor and wood carver	52
March 12th	Carl Tobias Jetzke	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian	71
the 14th of March	Christian Heinrich Wilhelm von Arnstedt	Prussian Colonel, Court Marshal of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm II.	71
the 14th of March	Friedrich Christoph von Saldern	Prussian general and war theorist	66
March, 15	Friederike Charlotte Bause	German pianist and glass harmonica player
March, 15	Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer	Dutch classical philologist	69
March 16	Friedrich Ludwig Finck von Finckenstein	Prussian Lieutenant General, Knight of the Order of St. John	75
19th March	Hugh Reinagle	English cellist and composer
March, 20th	Claude-François-Xavier Millot	French cleric and historian	59
25th March	Levin Friedrich von Hacke	Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general and governor of Stettin	71
28th March	Philipp Daniel Lippert	German archaeologist and draftsman	82

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd of April	Gabriel Bonnot de Mably	French politician and philosopher	76
April 6th	Johann Augustin Dietelmair	German Protestant theologian and university professor	68
April 16	Dominic Morano	Merchant, lawyer and sub-contractor
17th April	Adam Emanuel de Gabrieli	Jesuit professor and hospital pastor	69
April 24th	Friedrich	Duke of Mecklenburg	67
26th of April	Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff	German poet	40
April 27	Leopold of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	Prussian major general	32
April 27	Johann Seivert	Transylvanian scholar, lexicographer, historian and dialect researcher	50

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Johann Christoph Gottleber	German teacher and school writer	51
5th of May	Franz Xaver Schnizer	German composer and organist	44
8th of May	Étienne-François de Choiseul	French statesman	65
8th of May	Nikolaus Hooff	German painter and sculptor	62
8th of May	Pietro Longhi	Venetian Rococo painter	82
May 9	Bazilije Božičković	Croatian clergyman, Bishop of Križevci	66
10th of May	Johann Daniel Schulze	German organ builder	64
May 14th	Georg Ludwig von Kielmansegg	Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg general of the infantry	79
May 15	Joseph Dossenberger	Swabian master builder, representative of Rococo and early Classicism	64
May 15	Karel Blažej Kopřiva	Czech organist and composer	29
17th of May	Jakob Christoph Beck	Swiss theologian and historian	74
May 18	Christian Friedrich Sattler	German archivist and historian	79
May 20th	Nikolaus Alexander von Pomeiske	Prussian lieutenant general, knight of the order Pour le Mérite	67
May 22	Ernst Ludwig Christoph von Spiegel	German manor owner and Canon of Halberstadt	74
May 26	Johann Georg Leydel	Rococo builder	63
28th of May	Carl Eduard Taube von Odenkat	Swedish religious bishop	38

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2th of June	Jean Paul de Gua de Malves	French mathematician
2th of June	Gottfried August Homilius	German composer, cantor and organist	71
8th June	Franz Rosenstingl	Austrian architect and painter
June 10th	Johann Friedrich Sehestedt	Danish Lieutenant General
June 12	Clemens August von Landsberg zu Erwitte	Public officials and entrepreneurs
14th June	Johann Rochus Egedacher	Austrian organ builder	70
15th June	Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier	French physicist and one of the first aviation pioneers	31
June 19th	Johann von Fries	Kommerzienrat, Hofrat, director of the imperial silk factories, industrialist and banker	66
25th June	Jacob von Staehlin	German educator and scientist	76
June 26th	Johann Peter Brinckmann	German medic	39
June 26th	Johann Gerhard König	German botanist and doctor	56
June 27th	Joachim Lucas Stein	German lawyer and legal scholar	73
June 30th	James Oglethorpe	British general, philanthropist	88

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5th July	Johann Carl Dähnert	German librarian, legal scholar, linguist and historian	65
5th July	Joseph Tiefenthaler	Jesuit missionary and geographer	74
July 6th	Friedrich August	Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, Duke of Oldenburg	73
July 12	Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais	French lawyer	84
July 13th	Stephen Hopkins	Co-signer of the US Declaration of Independence, one of the US founding fathers	78
17th July	Margaret Cavendish Bentinck	British art collector	70
July 18th	Stanislaw Czerniewicz	Vicar General of the Societas Jesu (Jesuit Order)	56
20th of July	Johann books	German Protestant theologian	63
July 23	Johann Friedrich Krafft	Goethe's rapporteur
July 23	Johann Christian Friedrich Zell	German goldsmith and court jeweler
24th July	Johann Friedrich Hellmuth	German theater actor and founder of an actor society

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5th of August	Henning von Qualen	Royal Danish secretary and conference and district administrator, high president of Altona and provost of the monastery of Uetersen	82
August 7th	Luis de Borbon y Farnesio	Spanish Infant	58
August 10	Ephraim Paine	American doctor, judge, and politician	54
12. August	Friedrich Wilhelm von Lüderitz	Prussian colonel and master hunter	68
17th August	Jonathan Trumbull Sr.	American politician and Connecticut Governor	74
August 19th	Giuseppe Appiani	Italian fresco painter	78
20th of August	Jean-Baptiste Pigalle	French sculptor	71
August 25	Friedrich Esaias Pufendorf	German lawyer	77
26th of August	George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville	British officer and politician	69
August 27	Oswald Loschert	German Premonstratensian Abbot	82
August 31	Joseph Anton Lachel	Late Baroque sculptor	53

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 3	Hans Christoph von Rothkirch	royal Prussian lieutenant general, commander of the town and fortress Neisse and governor of Gattersleben	68
September 6th	Erhard Ursinus	royal Prussian secret war, domain and regional finance council
September 8th	Henry Hoare the Younger	British banker, art collector, creator of Stourhead Country Park	80
13.september	Hans Christoph von Rosenbusch	Royal Prussian major general, inspector of the West Prussian cavalry regiments	68
September 15th	Leopoldo de Gregorio	Sicilian civil servant and politician in the service of Spain
17th of September	Antoine Léonard Thomas	French rhetorician and Enlightenment poet	52
September 19th	Maria Antonia of Spain	Infanta of Spain, Queen of Sardinia-Piedmont by marriage	55
25th of September	Arvid Gustaf Taube from Odenkat	Swedish court marshal	56
25th of September	Johann Andreas Dieze	German Romance scholar and librarian
September 26th	Ventura Rodríguez	Spanish architect	68
September 29th	Jakob Gujer	Swiss farmer and agricultural reformer	67
September 29th	Franz Ignaz Michael Neumann	German builder of the Rococo	52
30. September	Friedrich Samuel Bock	German Protestant theologian, historian, librarian and writer	69
30. September	Johann Jacob Moser	German constitutional law teacher	84
30. September	Franz Stephan von Rautenstrauch	Austrian Benedictine abbot and Catholic theologian	51
September	Anton Gabriel von Herrenschwand	Swiss doctor

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 2nd	Friedrich Elias Meyer the Elder	German sculptor and porcelain modeler
8th October	Friedrich Christian Baumeister	German philosopher	76
October 10th	Johann Wolfgang Hammann	Owner of the ironworks and hammer mill in Katzhütte as well as the Fürstlich-Schwarzburgischer ironworks inspector	72
October 11th	Paolo Tommaso Alberghi	Italian composer and violinist of the pre-classical period	68
October 17th	Otto Heinrich of Bonn	Kurhannöverscher land builder	82
October 17th	Samuel Hardy	American politician
October 29th	Johann Jakob Mackensen	German court architect in Hanover	64
October 31	Friedrich II.	Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel	65
October 31	Carl Ludwig von Lassberg	Saxon forest official	76
October	Friedrich Alexander von Rothkirch	Prussian major general
October	Johann Ludwig Anton Rust	German lawyer, archivist and librarian

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 4th	Pierre-Jean Grosley	French man of letters, lawyer and encyclopaedist	66
November 6th	Georg of Mecklenburg	Member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; Austrian officer, most recently major general	37
November 8th	Ludwig Wilhelm von Bülow	Danish bailiff	86
November 12th	Johann Joseph Hackl	German wood sculptor
15th of November	César Gabriel de Choiseul-Praslin	French military, diplomat and statesman	73
November 16	Honorius Roth von Schreckenstein	Prince Abbot in the Prince Abbey of Kempten (1760–1785)	59
November 16	Johann Georg Stein	German organ builder
November 16	Johan Gottschalk Wallerius	Swedish chemist and mineralogist	76
November 18	Louis Philippe I. de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans	Duke of Orléans (1752–1785)	60
20th November	Johann Georg Wilhelm von Keller	Prussian lieutenant general, governor of Stettin	75
November 24th	Friederike von Württemberg	Princess of Württemberg and later the wife of Peter I. von Holstein-Gottorp	20th
25. November	Carl Friedrich Fechhelm	German painter and set designer
25. November	Richard Glover	English poet
November 26th	Joseph Stapf	German sculptor and building surveyor	74
November 27th	Konstantin von Billerbeck	Royal Prussian Lieutenant General	72
November 28th	William Whipple	British-American signatory of the United States 'Declaration of Independence, one of the United States' founding fathers	55

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Georg Ernst von Kleist	Prussian district administrator in the Duchy of Pomerania	69
2. December	Friedrich Leopold Weyland	German doctor and friend of Goethe's youth	35
December 5th	Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner	German painter
December 5th	Georg Bernhard Petrus von Mellin	Prussian Major General, Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 8	81
6th of December	Kitty Clive	English actress, singer and playwright	74
December 7th	Wolder Schele	German lawyer, Hamburg council secretary and protonotary	83
December 8th	Johann Philipp Du Roi	German doctor and botanist	44
December 8th	Antonio Maria Mazzoni	Italian composer and singer	68
9th of December	Christoph Friedrich Sartorius	German philologist and rhetorician as well as university professor	84
10th of December	Georg Ernst von Holtzendorff	Prussian major general and inspector general of the artillery and artillery schools	71
12th of December	Charlotte of Hessen-Darmstadt	by marriage to the Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz	30th
19. December	Gian Pietro Riva	Swiss school principal and translator	89
20th of December	Karl Friedrich	Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen	61
21st December	Giovanni Battista Borsieri	Italian doctor and university professor	60
25 December	Gottwald shoemaker	German medic	83
December 26th	Ignatz Anton von Weiser	Austrian playwright and dialect poet; Mayor of Salzburg	84
December 29th	Johann Christoph Bohl	German medic	82
December 29th	Johann Heinrich role	German composer and music teacher	69
December 29th	Johan Herman Wessel	Norwegian poet and writer	43
30th of December	Johann Arnold Isselhorst	Lawyer and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Johann Baptist Bergmüller	painter
	Franz Beuth	German Jesuit and fossil collector
	Benjamin Calau	visual artist
	Johann Gregor von Camerloher	German cellist at court in Munich
	Martin Carlin	French cabinet maker of German origin
	Pietro Chiari	Italian poet
	Gaspare Fumagalli	Italian painter
	Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard	French advocat, ornithologist and encyclopaedist
	Karl Otto Ludwig Theodat from and to Gymnich	President of the Court Council and First Minister of State at the Electoral Court of Bonn
	Halil Hamid Pasha	Ottoman Grand Vizier
	Moses Harris	English entomologist and engraver
	Albertus Antonius Hinsz	Organ builder
	Christian Wilhelm Kindleben	German theologian, writer and publicist
	Peter Laporterie	Sculptor in the time of European absolutism
	Pierre Le Roy	French watchmaker, inventor
	Antoine Mahaut	Belgian classical composer
	Laura Piranesi	Italian graphic artist
	Hugo Schmidfeld	German Benedictine and historian
	Georg Friedrich Schmoll	German draftsman and engraver
	Lionardo Sesler	Italian doctor and botanist
	Wild Peter of Hameln	Wolf child, found on July 17, 1724 near Hameln