Nekrolog 1789

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1789 . 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 Ernst Basilius Wiedeburg	German chamber councilor, physicist, astronomer and (from 1760) professor of mathematics in Erlangen and Jena	55
January 2nd	Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schauensee	Swiss composer and organist	68
January 4th	Thomas Nelson junior	British-American politician; Signatory of the US Declaration of Independence	50
January 5th	Christian Andreas Cothenius	Doctor in Germany	80
6th January	Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen	Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim (1763–1789), Prince-Bishop of Paderborn (1782–1789)	61
January 7th	Elisabeth Augusta of Baden-Baden	Baden princess	62
January 8th	Jack Broughton	English boxer and rule giver of boxing
10. January	John Ledyard	American African explorer	37
10. January	James Mitchell Varnum	American general during the Revolutionary War	40
13th January	Joseph Spencer	American politician	74
January 14th	Christian Gottlieb Gilling	German Protestant theologian	53
15. January	Johann Baptist Wenzel Bergl	Austrian painter	70
January 18th	Gaspar de Bragança	archbishop	72
January 18th	Thomas Walter	American botanist
January 19th	Jeremias Mayer	English painter	54
January 20th	Francesco Pozzi	Ticino plasterer	84
21th January	Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach	German philosopher and collaborator in Diderot's Encyclopédie
21th January	Paul Erdmann Isert	German botanist and zoologist
21th January	Schack Carl von Rantzau	Holstein landowner and Danish officer as well as German imperial count	71
22nd of January	Jakob Christoph von Papstein	Royal Prussian major general, commander of Dragoon Regiment No. 8 and heir to Tankow
January 23	John Cleland	English writer
January 24th	Nicolas Beauzée	French linguist, contributor to the Encyclopédie	71
January 24th	Carl August Friedrich Westenholz	German tenor, composer and court conductor	52
January 25th	James Randolph Reid	American politician	38
January 27th	Karl Ludwig von Goetzen	Prussian major general	56
January 27th	Albert Christoph von Wüllen	State Syndic and publisher	75
January 28th	Carl Adolph Gottlob von Schachmann	German landowner, naturalist, painter and numismatist	63
31 January	Robert Vansittart	English lawyer and university professor	60

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Johann Kasimir von Monkewitz	German lieutenant colonel	66
February 2nd	Armand-Louis Couperin	French composer and organist	61
February 2nd	Franz Huberti	German clergyman, educator and astronomer	73
3 February	Nicholas of Béguelin	Director of the Philosophical Class of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin	74
February 6th	Carl Friedrich von Staal	Estonian landowner and Russian officer
13th February	Ethan Allen	American freedom fighter	51
13th February	Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice	Swiss politician	65
13th February	Paolo Renier	119. Doge of Venice	78
February 16	Karl Erdmann von Reitzenstein	Prussian major general	66
19th of February	Nicholas Van Dyke Sr.	American lawyer and politician	50
21st of February	Karl Borromeo of Liechtenstein	imperial Austrian field marshal	58
February 26th	August Siegfried von Goué	German writer	45

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th March	Jean Chastel	French innkeeper	80
March 11	Jozef Karol Hell	Inventor of a water pump	75
March, 15	Johann Friedrich Rehkopf	German clergyman, university professor and author	56
17. March	François-Joseph Terrasse Desbillons	French Jesuit	78
March 23	Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds	British aristocrat	75
March 24th	Franz Anton Sebastini	Moravian baroque painter and fresco artist
25th March	Julie von Voss	morganatic wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia	22nd
26th of March	Jacob Vernet	Swiss theologian, philosopher and advocate of the Enlightenment	90
27th of March	Once Toze	Historian and professor of history at the University of Bützow
March 29	Thomas Collins	American lawyer and governor
March 29	Giovanni Cornaro	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	68
March 31	Johann Friedel	Austrian actor, author and theater director	33
March 31	Johann Melchior von Morgenstern	Colonel and Commander in Infantry Regiment No. 1	55

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Johann Friedrich Hartknoch	German publisher and music dealer	48
4. April	Paul from Natalis	Prussian major general	69
April 6th	Franz Singer	Austrian builder and plasterer	65
7th of April	Abdülhamid I.	Ottoman sultan and caliph	64
7th of April	Peter Camper	Dutch medic	66
11 April	Jean André Lepaute	French royal watchmaker	68
April 13th	Pierse Long	American politician
April 14th	Johann Georg Friedrich Franz	German medic and writer	51
April 15th	Christian Ludwig King	German organ builder	71
17th April	Albrecht Friedrich von Kesslau	German architect and princely building officer
20th of April	Johann Ludwig von Le Coq	Saxon Lieutenant General	70
April, 30th	Thomas Patch	British painter

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5th of May	Giuseppe Baretti	Italian writer and translator	70
May 9	Johan von Höpken is different	Swedish politician	77
May 9	Jean-Baptiste Vaquette	French engineer and artillery general	73
10th of May	Jafar Khan	Shah of Persia from the dynasty of the Zand princes
10th of May	Guillaume-Gommaire Kennis	Belgian violinist and pre-classical composer	72
10th of May	Said Murad Khan Zand	Shah of Persia from the dynasty of the Zand princes
May 15	Michael Angstenberger	Austrian hymn composer	72
May 18	Arabanoo	first aboriginal to be captured by the British
May 19th	Giuseppe Bonito	Italian painter	81
May 20th	Jost Erdmann von Arnim	Prussian colonel
May 21	John Hawkins	English music historian	70
25. May	Andreas Dahl	Swedish botanist	38
May 29th	Johann Peter Miller	German Protestant clergyman and university professor	64
May 29th	Rudolph Dietrich von Schönberg	Electoral Chamberlain
30th May	Balthasar Ernst von Bohlen	Prussian colonel	89
31. May	Dodo Heinrich zu Innhausen and Knyphausen	Prussian diplomat	59

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2th of June	Jacques Philippe de Choiseul-Stainville	Marshal of France	61
2th of June	Johann Friedrich Klotzsch	Historian, numismatist, mining official	63
3rd of June	Johann Achterkirchen	German Mayor
3rd of June	Adam Leopold von Gruttschreiber	Royal Prussian Colonel and Commander of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 1
June 4th	Louis Joseph Xavier François de Bourbon	Duke of Brittany and Dauphin of Viennois; Son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XV.	7th
June 4th	Johann Friedrich Hahn	German clergyman and educator	78
6th of June	Paul Egede	Danish Greenland missionary	80
6th of June	Karl Thomas zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort	third prince from the Löwenstein family	75
June 9th	Karl Ernst von Bose	Prussian major general	62
June 9th	Martin Legros	Bell founder, Walloon bell founder
June 12	Jean-Étienne Liotard	French-Swiss pastel and enamel painter	86
June 12	Friedrich Albert Count of Schwerin	Prussian major general, head stable master and secret budget minister	72
14th June	Johann Wilhelm Hertel	German composer	61
14th June	Tommaso Temanza	Italian architect, hydraulic engineer and historian	84
June 26th	August Müller junior	German Protestant theologian	78
June 26th	Hans Christoph von Woldeck	Prussian lieutenant general
June 29th	Johann Christian Sachs	Baden historian and church councilor	68

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Sigismund Ehrenreich von Redern	Prussian Grand Marshal and physicist	69
2nd July	Joachim Günther	German sculptor and plasterer	69
2nd July	Johann Philipp Lorenz Withof	German literary scholar, professor of history, eloquence and morality	64
3rd of July	Jacob II Bernoulli	Swiss mathematician and physicist	29
July 4th	Christian Albrecht	Prince of the House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Dutch Lieutenant General	63
July 12	Detlef von Vietinghoff	Prussian major general, knight of the order Pour le Mérite	76
July 13th	Victor Riquetti	French economist and writer	73
July 14th	Jacques de Flesselles	French prison commandant	58
July 14th	Bernard-René Jordan de Launay	French prison commandant	49
July 14th	Joachim Bernhard Steinbrück	German Protestant clergyman and regional historian	63
22nd of July	Joseph Francois Foullon	French general, military politician and finance minister	74
July 23	Finnur Jónsson	Icelandic clergyman, Bishop of Skálholt	85
July 23	Ludwig von Pfuel	Prussian major general	71
30th July	Daniel Mitz	Swiss lawyer and politician	64
July	Niccolò Mestrino	Italian violinist and composer
July	David Nelson	botanist

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd August	Petrus Curtenius	Dutch Reformed theologian	72
August 7th	William Edwards	welsh architect	70
August 11th	Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Grolman	Royal Prussian colonel, commander of a grenadier regiment and, most recently, commander of infantry regiment No. 17	63
13 August	Franz Gustav von Mitzlaff	royal Prussian major general, governor in Stetterlingenburg and Horneburg	82
13 August	Johann Arnold von Schönheim	Canon in Cologne and official of the Archdiocese of Cologne	74
August 14th	Friedrich von Knauss	German machine builder and inventor
August 16	Anton Haffenecker	bohemian builder	69
August 19th	Johann Baptist Deyrer	German court painter in the Hochstift Freising
August 21	Johann Jakob Schalch	Swiss painter	66
August 22nd	Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder	German painter in Kassel	66
August 25	Mary Ball Washington	Mother of George Washington
August 27	Koikawa Harumachi	Japanese writer, Gesaku man of letters, and Ukiyo-e artist
August 27	Friedrich Ludwig zu Solms-Wildenfels and Tecklenburg	Russian officer and statesman from Electoral Saxony	80
August 28th	Wilhelm Heinrich von der Goltz	Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general	65
29th August	Hans Joachim von Kleist	Prussian officer and Pomeranian district administrator	64
August 31	Nicolò de Amato	Italian Roman Catholic bishop	87

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 2nd	Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem	theologian	79
September 4th	Paul Spooner	American politician and judge	43
the 9th of September	Carl August Schlegel	German cartographer and genius officer	26th
September 11	Luka Sorkočević	Diplomat and composer	55
12th September	Franz Xaver Richter	Moravian composer and representative of the Mannheim School	79
16th September	Johann Hinrich Dimpfel	German businessman, publisher	72
September 23rd	Silas Deane	Member of the American Continental Congress and diplomat	51
September 23rd	John Rogers	American politician
September 24th	Johann Nikolaus Seip	German Lutheran theologian	64
September 28th	Thomas Day	English writer and political essayist	41
30. September	Johann Theodor von Rouvroy	Austrian artillery general

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Jerónimo Grimaldi	Spanish diplomat and ambassador
October 6th	Max Heinrich von Geyr	German Roman Catholic priest and canon in Cologne	77
October 6th	Cecilia Young	English e singer
October 7th	Johann Gottfried Misler	German lawyer and writer	69
9th October	Dietrich von Ahlefeldt	Prussian civil servant
October 11th	Heinrich Gottlieb von Lindenau	Electoral Saxon Real Privy Councilor, Chamberlain and Chief Stable Master	66
October 14th	Ann Catley	British singer, actress and dancer
October, 16th	George Christoph von Arnim	Prussian lieutenant general	66
October 17th	Karl Georg Lebrecht	German nobleman, Prince of Anhalt-Koethen	59
October 18	Karl Wilhelm von Sames	commanding general in Holstein and commander in Rendsburg	65
October 24th	Georges de Bièvre	French author	41
October 26th	Sophie Black	German-Baltic writer	35
October 27	John Cook	American politician
28th of October	José Antonio de Areche	Spanish lawyer, colonial administrator and minister
October 29th	Karl Franz Lubert Haas	German historian, theologian, philosopher and church historian	67
30th of October	Philipp Adolph Böhmer	German human medicine, professor of medicine and anatomy, personal physician	78

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 4th	Christian Albrecht Döderlein	Theologian, founding rector of the University of Bützow, university professor	74
November 4th	Karl Heinrich Geisler	German legal scholar	47
November 5th	Johann I.	Prince	47
November 6th	Karl Ludwig Gottlob Löwenberger von Schönholz	royal Prussian major general of the cavalry
November 8th	Giovanni Antonio Battarra	Priest, mycologist and botanist	75
November 10th	Richard Caswell	American politician and governor of North Carolina	60
November 11th	Charles-Georges Le Roy	French nature watcher, encyclopaedist	66
November 11th	Johann Christoph von Mahlen	Prussian major general
November 16	Konrad Arnold Schmid	German writer	73
November 19th	Maria Anna of Austria	second daughter of Maria Theresia and Franz Stephan von Lothringen, abbess	51
21st November	Johann David Lens	German robbers in Württemberg
22nd of November	Friederike Sophie Seyler	German actress
November 24th	Ignatius Fortuna	Chamberlain of the abbess of Essen
25. November	Adam Gottfried Oehme	German organ builder in Saxony	70
25. November	Jan Michał Budar	Sorbian manor owner and lawyer	75
November 28th	Friedrich August Krubsacius	German architect and architectural theorist	71
November 29th	Johann Baptist Dorsch	German sculptor
November	Claude Yvon	French theologian and encyclopedist	75

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of December	Claude Joseph Vernet	French marine painter	75
December 4th	Étienne Jeaurat	French painter and engraver	90
December 7th	Johann Friedrich Glaser	German medic	82
December 7th	Emmanuel Ernst von Waldstein	Bishop of Leitmeritz	73
10th of December	William Pierce	American politician
December 18th	Christoph of Baden-Durlach	Imperial Field Marshal General	72
23rd of December	Charles-Michel de l'Epée	Founder of the world's first school for pigeons	77
23rd of December	Franz Duschinger	Austrian builder
23rd of December	Heinrich Gottlieb von Stutterheim	Electorate General of the Cavalry, diplomat and Minister of State and Cabinet	72
December 28th	Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy	French botanist	57
30th of December	Maximilian Prokop from Toerring-Jettenbach	Prince-Bishop of Regensburg (since 1787) and Freising (since 1788)	50

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Josef Baumgen	sculptor
	Louis Gabriel Marquis de Conflans	French lieutenant general
	Filippo Salvatore Gilii	Italian Jesuit
	Joseph Hartmann	painter
	Christian August von Lengefeld	Prussian lieutenant general, governor of Magdeburg Fortress
	Charles Paillasson	French man of letters and encyclopedist
	Pyotr Ivanovich Panin	Russian general
	James Potter	American general and politician
	Barry St. Leger	British officer
	Franz Ludwig Wind	Swiss sculptor of the baroque era