Nekrolog 1787

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1787 . 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	José Anastácio da Cunha	Portuguese mathematician, mathematician historian and poet	42
January 1st	Arthur Middleton	British-American politician	44
10. January	Friedrich Joachim Stengel	German Baroque architect	92
10. January	John Wentworth Jr.	American politician	41
January 14th	Antonio Casali	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	71
January 14th	Joseph Friedrich of Saxony-Hildburghausen	Prince and Regent of Sachsen-Hildburghausen, Imperial Field Marshal General	84
January 14th	Joseph Franz Maria von Seinsheim	Bavarian politician	79
January 16	Wilhelmine Dorothee von der Marwitz	Mistress of the Margrave Friedrich III. from Brandenburg-Bayreuth	68
January 24th	Madeleine Angélique Neufville de Villeroy	French nobles and salonnière	79

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Ignaz Raab	bohemian painter	71
February 4th	Pompeo Batoni	Italian painter	78
February 5th	Karl Albrecht	Imperial Count of Ortenburg	43
February 8	Johann Friedrich Graefe	German composer
February 8	Painted Friedrich von Putbus	President of the Court of Justice in Swedish Pomerania	61
February 9	Wilhelm Mac Neven O'Kelly from Aghrim	Irish physician, practiced in Bohemia, court physician Maria Theresa
February 9	Sigmund Windisch	German sculptor	77
February 10th	Friedrich Georg Hornemann	German pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Andreas and teacher at the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim
February 12th	Rugjer Josip Bošković	Mathematician, physicist and Catholic priest	75
13th February	Philip II	Count of Schaumburg-Lippe	63
13th February	Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes	French statesman	69
February 22	Johanna von Hohenzollern-Berg	Countess of Berg-s'Heerenberg, Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen	59
February 23	Christian Friedrich Krull	Lower Saxony sculptor of the early modern period	38
February 25	Anton Ignaz von Fugger-Glött	Bishop of Regensburg	75
February 26th	Gotthilf Friedrich Tilebein	German merchant and shipowner	59
February	Christian Hieronymus Lommer	Saxon mountain master and university professor	45

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd March	Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand	Swiss natural scientist	73
3 March	Columba Schonath	German Dominican and mystic	56
5. March	Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer	German mercantilist	69
March 11	Maximilien Gardel	French dancer and choreographer	45
March 12th	Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta	Spanish writer and chronicler	53
March 13th	Johann Daniel Schumann	German schoolboy and preacher	73
March 16	Johann Christian Pfennig	German organ builder	80
17. March	Anton August Beck	German engraver	73
March 21st	Heinrich White	German robbers in Württemberg
March 23	Johann Georg von Lori	Bavarian civil servant	63
25th March	Andreas Moosbrugger	Austrian rococo plasterer	64
March 30	Amalie of Prussia	German composer	63

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd of April	Conrad Christoph von Blixen	Swedish general	70
2nd of April	Thomas Gage	British General and Commander in Chief of the British Forces during the American War of Independence
3rd of April	Tommaso Maria Ghilini	Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church	68
April 5th	Adelheid Maria Eichner	German composer, singer and pianist
April 5th	August Ludwig Schott	German defendant, court attorney and professor of law in Tübingen, as well as councilor in Erlangen	35
9th April	Johann Wilhelm Bernhard von Hymmen	Prussian lawyer, author and poet
10th of April	Wilhelm Ludwig von Meusel	Prussian officer, knight of the order Pour le Mérite, chief of the Meusel grenadier battalion No. 2
April 16	Moise Dragoș	Romanian priest, Bishop of Oradea	60
17th April	Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten	German mathematician	54
20th of April	Alberich Fritz	Austrian Cistercian and abbot	82
20th of April	Franz Dominikus Häberlin	German historian and publicist	67
April 22	Josef Starzer	Austrian pre-classical composer	61
April 23	Johann Christian Schubart	German farmer and agricultural reformer	53
April 24th	Benjamin Frobisher	Canadian fur dealer
April 27	Ambrosio de Benavides	Governor of Chile	69
April	Johann Samuel Sello	Royal court gardener
April	Philipp Georg von Willich	Protestant provost and pastor in Sagard (Rügen)	66

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Daniel Funk	Swiss watchmaker
May 6th	Caroline of Orange-Nassau-Diez	Princess of Orange-Nassau-Dietz, by marriage Princess of Nassau-Weilburg	44
May 6th	Karl Christoph von Linsing	German Lieutenant General in the service of the Electorate of Hanover	83
10th of May	William Watson	English pharmacist, doctor and naturalist	72
May 13th	Johann Michael Malzat	Austrian classical composer	38
May 21	Johann Jacob Stahel	German printer and bookseller	63
May 22	Gottfried von Laimbeckhoven	Austrian Jesuit, missionary in China and Bishop of Nanjing	86
May 22	Ignaz Weinhart	Austrian religious and scholar	81
May 24th	David Möllinger	German agricultural reformer	78
25. May	Carl Gustav Jablonsky	German naturalist, entomologist and illustrator
25. May	Maximilian Stoll	Austrian doctor of German origin	44
28th of May	Joseph Deutschmann	Austrian Rococo sculptor	69
28th of May	Leopold Mozart	German composer and music teacher	67
31. May	Felix of Nicosia	Sicilian Capuchin and saint	71
31. May	Pierre Jérémie Hainchelin	Prussian tax officer	59

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 4th	Sylvius Ferdinand von Stwolinsky	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 10
June 7th	Dubislaw von Platen	Prussian general of the cavalry, governor of Koenigsberg	72
June 10th	María Antonia Vallejo	Spanish actress and singer	26th
June 13th	Josef Bárta	bohemian composer
14th June	Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun	Bavarian coin and mountain ridge, co-initiator of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences	73
14th June	Ernst von Stein	Hunting page in Weimar and childhood friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	19th
June 16	August Wilhelm von Thüna	Prussian major general, chief of infantry regiment No. 23, inspector of the infantry regiments of the Mittelmark, governor of Schlanstedt and Oschersleben	65
17th of June	José de Gálvez y Gallardo	Spanish nobleman, civil servant and minister	67
18th of June	John Egerton	British Anglican Bishop	65
18th of June	Marie Sophie Hélène Beatrice de Bourbon	Princess of France and Navarre
20th June	Carl Friedrich Abel	German composer of the early classical period	63
June 24th	Sigmund Haffner the Younger	Salzburg entrepreneur and founder	30th
June 28th	Johann Gotthelf Duke	German doctor	48
June	Ignazio Fiorillo	Italian opera composer and court conductor	72

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 4th	Richard Jebb	English medic
July 4th	Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise	French general and statesman, peer and marshal of France	71
7th of July	Friedrich von Eyben	German lawyer and diplomat	87
July 14th	Carl Friedrich Jakob Schnabel	Court clerk and city counsel in Elberfeld	46
17th July	Maria Magdalena van Beethoven	Mother of Ludwig van Beethoven	40
17th July	Johann Ernst Döring	German organ builder	83
17th July	Hannikel	German robbers in Württemberg
24th July	Johann Christian von Hofenfels	Minister, statesman and diplomat in the service of Duke Charles II	42
July 26th	Eustachius Federl	Bishop and Vicar Apostolic in India	54
July 26th	Christoph Weber	German physician, well doctor, court medicus and country physician
July 28th	Adolph Heinrich von Pritzelwitz	royal Prussian colonel and chief of the fourth artillery regiment

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 1st	Alexander von der Mark	illegitimate son of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia	8th
August 1st	Alfonso Maria de Liguori	Italian lawyer, bishop and founder of an order, who was canonized and made a Doctor of the Church	90
August 2nd	Johann Wilhelm Franz von Krohne	German nobleman and author	49
5th of August	François Francœur	French composer and violinist	88
13 August	Antoine René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson	French diplomat, minister of state, bibliophile and Romance scholar	64
August 14th	Isaac de Pinto	Dutch philosopher, scholar, economist, politician, businessman	70
20th of August	Carl Christoph Wilhelm Fleischer	German architect	60
August 23	Wilhelm Lesemann	German Lutheran theologian	60
August 27	Charles DeWitt	American politician	60
29th August	Ludwig Anton von Wechmar	Prussian Colonel and Chief of Hussar Regiment No. 6	75

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 4th	Samuel Christian Hollmann	German university professor	90
5th September	Peter von Glasenapp	Prussian district administrator
12th September	Johann Daniel Busch	German organ builder	52
16th September	Johann Friedrich Blasius Ziesenis	German wood and stone sculptor
September 26th	Josef Hueber	important Austrian baroque master builder
September 27th	Ignaz Franz Platzer	Sculptor of the Bohemian late baroque	70
September	Moses Browne	English clergyman and poet

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari	Italian painter	52
5th October	Thomas Stone	British-American lawyer and plantation owner, one of the founding fathers of the United States
October 6th	Christian Friedrich of Braunschweig	Prussian officer, most recently Major General and Chief of the 9 Cuirassier Regiment
October 7th	Johann Karl von Herberstein	Bishop of Laibach	68
October 7th	Henry Melchior Mühlenberg	Founder of the Lutheran Church in the USA	76
October 14th	Johann Adam Schweickart	German draftsman and engraver	64
October 17th	Franz Xaver Adelmann of Adelmannsfelden	Auxiliary Bishop in Augsburg	66
October 18	Joachim Ehrenfried Pfeiffer	German Protestant theologian	78
October 18	Nikolaus Adaukt Voigt	Bohemian piarist and scholar	54
the 20th of October	Johann Peter Wältgens	Owner of hard coal mines in the Eschweiler area	49
October 25	Adde Bernhard Burghardi	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior pastor of the Lübeck Petrikirche and senior of the Lübeck Spiritual Ministry	77
October 25	Johann Christoph Schinkel	German Protestant clergyman	51
October 26th	Franz Sigismund Adalbert von Lehrbach	German baron, land commander of the Teutonic Order, imperial diplomat and minister	58
28th of October	Johann Karl August Musäus	German writer and literary critic	52
30th of October	Ferdinando Galiani	Italian economist	58

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 2	James Douglas, 1st Baronet (of Maxwell)	Scottish officer and politician, member of the House of Commons
November 4th	Johan Daniel Berlin	Danish-Norwegian composer	73
November 4th	George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie	Scottish nobleman
November 5th	Johann David Steingruber	Margravial agricultural inspector and master builder of many churches in the then Principality of Ansbach	85
November 6th	Friedrich August von Geyso	major general in Hanover	72
November 6th	Johann Gottlieb Tielke	electoral captain	56
November 8th	Johann Karl Chotek von Chotkow	Bohemian-Austrian court chancellor	83
November 8th	Caroline Schuch	German actress and theater director	48
November 12th	Maria Amoretti	Italian lawyer	31
15th of November	Christian Ernst von Oelsen	Courland politician and court master	57
15th of November	Johann Casten	German sexton and pietist	71
15th of November	Christoph Willibald Gluck	German composer	73
November 17th	Didier-Pierre Diderot	Catholic clergyman, canon	65
20th November	François-Gaston de Lévis	French general in the French and Indian War	68
November 23	Anton Schweitzer	German composer
November 26th	Emanuel von Graffenried	Swiss politician	60

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of December	Anton IV of Montfort	German noblemen and military, last representative of the House of Montfort	64
3rd of December	Philipp Erasmus Reich	German bookseller and publisher	70
December 4th	Matthäus Gottfried Hehl	German-American clergyman and bishop of the Moravian Brethren	82
December 5th	Benet Julià i Ros	Catalan organist and composer	60
December 5th	Sven Lagerbring	Swedish historian	80
6th of December	Franz Andreas Schega	Medalist and die cutter	76
9th of December	Bernhard Joachim Hagen	German composer and lutenist	67
December 14th	Johann Samuel Patzke	German pastor and writer	60
December 18th	Johann Jakob Dusch	German writer	62
23rd of December	Louise-Marie de Bourbon	French princess and Carmelite	50

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Philip Aaron	German medalist and die cutter
	Karl Friedrich von Beckwith	Commander of the Legion Britanique, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 48 in Wesel
	Magnus Brasch	German painter, animal painter
	Francisco Javier Clavijero	Mexican writer
	Elimelech of Lyshansk	Hasidic rabbi and tzaddik and one of the founders of Hasidism in Galicia
	Carlo Galli da Bibiena	Italian decorative and theater painter
	Andrea Gigante	Italian architect of the late baroque
	Johannes von Jenner	Swiss politician
	Samuel Graves	British admiral
	Francesco Griselini	Italian scholar, scientist, traveler and Banat historian
	Karl Friedrich Mende	evangelical preacher
	Jacob Mumenthaler-Marti	Swiss surgeon and surgeon
	Chernobyl Nachum	Hasidic rabbi and founder of the Twersky dynasty
	Dennis O'Kelly	Irish horse breeder
	Hans Friedrich von Rochow	Prussian lieutenant general and Berlin commander during the Seven Years' War
	Johann Albert Roetig	German watchmaker
	August Ferdinand von der Schulenburg	Prussian officer, most recently major general
	Johann Rudolf Sinner	Swiss writer and magistrate
	Johann Friedrich Syer	German organ builder
	Johann Tobias Volkmar	German Lutheran clergyman
	Mary Ann Yates	English actress and dancer