Nekrolog 1791

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1791 . 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 4th	Étienne-Maurice Falconet	French sculptor	74
January 8th	Rudolph Friedrich Schultze	German Protestant theologian	52
January 9th	Johann Friedrich Jugler	German legal historian	76
10. January	Friedrich Ewald Ernst von Massow	German civil servant	40
15. January	Wilhelm II. Roßhirt	German Cistercian abbot	76
January 17th	Friedrich Konrad Lange	German-Danish Protestant clergyman and educator	52
January 19th	Eberhard Friedrich von Gemmingen	German poet, composer and Württemberg politician	64
January 19th	Friedrich Karl von Schlieben	Prussian lieutenant general, governor von Krossen and Landdrost von Rees and Isselburg
January 20th	Otto Ernst von Reineck	Prussian major general, commandant of the Invalidenhaus of Berlin	61
January 23	François-Thomas Germain	French silversmith	64
January 23	Carl Heinrich von Heineken	German art writer and collector, director of the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett	83
January 24th	Johann Ernst Gaertner	General Tax Director of the Excise and Customs Office Magdeburg
January 25th	Jakow Borissowitsch Knjaschnin	Poet, dramaturge, translator	48
January 25th	Giovanni Pichler	German-Italian gem cutter	57
January 26th	Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis	French lawyer and contributor to the Encyclopédie	82
January 27th	George Bryan	American politician
January 28th	Georg Christian Oeder	German-Danish botanist, doctor and social reformer	62
January 30th	Claude-Carloman de Rulhière	French historian	55
31 January	George Friedrich von Broecker	Prussian lawyer, President of the Court of Köslin
31 January	Maximilian Sigmund von Pannewitz	Royal Prussian Lieutenant General, Inspector of the Upper Silesian Cavalry	75

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Johann Hinrich Pratje	Superintendent General and Historian	80
February 2nd	Cecilia Grassi	Italian singer
3 February	Matthias Faller	German monastery sculptor and wood carver	83
February 8	Gabriel Christoph Benjamin Mosche	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian	67
February 10th	Johann Carl Friedrich zu Carolath-Beuthen	Prince, nobleman and Prussian general	74
February 12th	Johann Benjamin Koppe	German Lutheran theologian	40
14th of February	Karl Christian Gärtner	German writer	78
February 17th	Christian Wilhelm Siegmund von Posadowsky	Prussian lieutenant general	65
February 18	Friederike Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld	Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth	55
21st of February	Josef Anton Zoller	Austrian baroque painter	61
February 22	Dominicus Beck	German mathematician and physicist	58
February 22	Niklaus Blauner	Swiss physicist, professor of physics and geography	77
February 22	Johann Siegmund Mörl	German Protestant clergyman	80
February 23	Friedrich Sinner	Schultheiss of Bern	77
February 24th	Leopold von Hartmann	German civil servant and farmer
27th of February	Carl August Pesch	German violinist and composer
February	Ludwig Christian Konrad Lammersdorf	German obstetrician, surgeon and teacher

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Peter Ahlwardt	German theologian and philosopher	81
1st March	Andreas Christian Odebrecht	Mayor of Greifswald	74
2nd March	John Wesley	English revival preacher and one of the founders of Methodism	87
4th of March	Bernhard Friedrich Hummel	German educator	65
7th March	Johann Georg Arnold Oelrichs	German Protestant theologian and philosopher	23
9th March	Jean-André Venel	Swiss doctor, orthopedist	50
March 11	Mattias Benzelstierna	Swedish civil servant	77
the 14th of March	Christoph Carl Kress from Kressenstein	German lawyer and mayor	68
the 14th of March	Johann Salomo Semler	German Protestant theologian	65
March 16	Johann Just von Berger	German-Danish doctor	67
March 16	Heinrich Friedrich Roux	German Romanist, lexicographer and fencing master of French descent	62
17. March	Johann August Dathe	German linguist	59
March 21st	Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien	Prussian general from the Frederician era	80
March 24th	Karl August von Schwartz	Prussian lieutenant general, governor of Neisse	75
March 31	Matthias Ogden	General of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War	36
March	Ismail Bey	Emir of the Mamluks and regent of Egypt

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd of April	Honoré Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau	French politician, physiocrat, writer and publicist	42
3rd of April	John Berkenhout	English medic and naturalist	64
7th of April	Friedrich Wilhelm von Witzleben	German manor owner	76
April 8th	Theodor de Croix	Knight of the Teutonic Order and Spanish Viceroy of Peru	60
April 16	Nicholas Eveleigh	American politician
April 19th	Richard Price	British ethical philosopher, preacher to the English Dissenters and an active pamphlet writer in the American Revolution	68
April 19th	Christian Ludolph Reinhold	German draftsman and engraver, mathematician, physicist and teacher	51
April 22	Jean François	French Benedictine, historian and Romanist	69
April 24th	Benjamin Harrison V	North American plantation owner and a leader of the American independence movement	65
April 24th	August Schaarschmidt	German medic	70
April 27	Jan Pieters van der Bildt	Frisian instrument maker	81

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 3rd	Louis François de Monteynard	French general	77
May 3rd	Christian Gottlob Richter	German lawyer, university professor and philologist	45
May 4th	Johann Nepomuk Endres	Theologian, lawyer and philosopher of the Catholic Enlightenment	61
May 9	Francis Hopkinson	Founding Father of the United States	53
12th of May	Wenzel Trnka from Krzowitz	Physician, university professor and lay composer	51
May 14th	Franziska Lebrun	German soprano and composer	35
17th of May	Johann Ernst von Zabeltitz	Prussian major general
May 18	Karl Wolfgang von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf	Prussian major general, governor in Freienwalde and Neuenhagen, heir of Hirschfelde, Küpper and Droscheyde	60
May 22	Johan Andreas Murray	Swedish botanist and medicin	51
May 22	Johann Andreas Anton von Scholten	Royal Prussian major general, writer and founder of the scientific society in Treuenbrietzen	67
May 26	Joseph von Spaur	Bishop of Brixen	72
28th of May	Joseph Schmitt	German composer and music publisher
May 29th	Nicholas Brown Sr.	Dealer from Providence, Rhode Island	61
30th May	Ildefons Haas	German musician and Benedictine	56
31. May	Johann Friedrich Bauder	Merchant, mayor of the city of Altdorf and discoverer of the marble there	78
31. May	Emanuel Mendes da Costa	British zoologist and paleontologist	73
May	Albrecht Dietrich Gottfried von and zum Egloffstein	royal Prussian lieutenant general, governor of Koenigsberg, Memel, Pillau

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2th of June	Peter Viktor von Besenval	Swiss military in French service	69
June 5th	Joseph Adalbert of Desfours	imperial-royal captain and lord of the East Bohemian rule Náchod (1786–1791)	57
June 5th	Frederick Haldimand	Swiss General in British Service, Governor General of Canada	72
6th of June	Karl Ignaz von Clary and Aldringen	President of the kk Krondomäne Temescher Banat and chairman of the Banat Bergdirektion	61
June 10th	Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte	French admiral	70
20th June	Adam Struensee	German Protestant theologian and general superintendent	82
June 22	Catherine Macaulay	English writer and suffragette	60
25th June	Conrad Wilhelm von Ahlefeldt	General and Minister of War	83
June 26th	Philipp Wilhelm Gercken	German historian and heraldist	69
June 27th	Johann Heinrich Merck	Darmstadt writer	50
June 30th	Joachim Otto Adolph von Bassewitz	Landowner and Chamberlain	74
June 30th	Jean-Baptiste Descamps	French painter and writer	76

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd July	Søren Abildgaard	Danish scientist, author and illustrator	73
July 6th	Christian Ludwig von Isenburg-Birstein	Hesse-Kassel general and German prince	80
7th of July	Georg Hermann Richerz	German Lutheran theologian	35
July 13th	Karl Heinrich Joseph von Sickingen	Privy councilor and chemist
July 14th	Pietro Belly	Piedmontese officer and mining scientist
July 14th	Joseph Gardener	German botanist	59
16th of July	Adam Stephen	American doctor and officer
17th July	Joachim Georg Darjes	writer	77
17th July	Martin Dobrizhoffer	Jesuit, missionary and ethnologist
July 19	Johann Alexander von Rottenhan	Large landowners and promoters of economic development in West Bohemia	81
24th July	Ignaz von Born	Austrian mineralogist, geologist	48
July 25th	Franz Ludwig Herrmann	German painter	68
July 25th	Isaac Low	British politician in colonial North America	56
July 27th	Friedrich Wilhelm Richter	German clergyman and educator	64
29th of July	James Manning	American Baptist pastor and politician	52
30th July	Johann Gottfried Hermann	German Lutheran theologian and Saxon court preacher	83
July	Daniel Houghton	Africa explorer

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 2nd	Johann Rudolph Anton Piderit	German Protestant theologian, clergyman and educator	70
August 7th	Johann Friedrich Alexander	first prince of Wied (1784–1791)	84
8th August	Johann Georg Rauhe	German garrison schoolmaster, forger of historical works	52
August 9	Johann Anton Kobrich	German organist and composer
August 11th	Jón Steingrímsson	icelandic priest	62
August 22nd	Johann David Michaelis	German orientalist and theologian	74
August 22nd	Giustiniana Wynne	author
August 23	Jeanne de Saint-Rémy	French nobleman and mastermind of the collar affair	35
August 23	Johann Jacob Tischbein	German painter	66
August 24th	Caroline von Keyserling	German artist and socialite	63
August 25	Johann Benedikt von Groeling	Prussian lieutenant general	64
August 25	Pietro Domenico Paradisi	Italian composer and teacher
August 27	Placidus Fixlmillner	Austrian astronomer and Benedictine	70
August	Franz Josef Sulzer	Austrian historian and Romanist	64

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Ambrosius Franziskus von Spee	Electoral Palatinate Privy Councilor and Chamberlain, Lord of the Castle	60
September 2nd	František Kočvara	Bohemian violinist and composer
September 4th	Daniel Nettelbladt	German lawyer and professor at the University of Halle	72
September 4th	Ernst Elwert	Magistrate to Dornberg	62
5th September	Christoph Jezler	Swiss mathematician and physicist, trained furrier	56
September 6th	Georg Friedrich Brandes	Hanoverian lawyer, art and book collector
7th of September	Jakob Wegelin	Swiss historian, Protestant theologian and philosopher	70
September 10	Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyj	baroque ukrainian architect	78
12th September	Georg Wilhelm Wahnschaffe	Prussian senior bailiff, Braunschweig-Lüneburgischer Drost, entrepreneur, land improver and multiple domain and manor owner	81
17th of September	Tomás de Iriarte	Spanish writer and translator	40
September 18	Elias Caspar Reichard	German educator and writer	76
September 23rd	Carl von Gontard	German architect	60
September	Joseph Wood	American politician

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Frobenius Forster	Catholic philosopher, historian and educator	82
4th of October	Johann Joseph Hackl	Austrian politician and mayor of St. Pölten	75
October 6th	Maria Franziska of the five wounds of Christ	Religious, saint	76
October 7th	William Burnet	American politician	60
8th October	Claus Friedrich von Reden	Co-founder of the Clausthal mining academy and Hanoverian mining captain (1769–1791)	55
9th October	Johann Gottlieb Riedel	German architect, painter and court building inspector	69
October 10th	Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart	German poet, musician, composer and journalist	52
October 11th	Johann Castillon	Mathematician, philosopher and university professor	83
October 11th	William Gage, 2nd Viscount Gage	British nobleman and politician	73
October 12th	Anna Louisa Karsch	German poet	68
October, 16th	Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin	Russian field marshal, confidante and favorite of the Russian Tsarina Catherine the Great	52
October 18	João de Loureiro	Portuguese missionary and botanist	74
the 20th of October	Jean-Joseph Rive	French librarian and author	61
October 21	Christoph Heinrich Chappuzeau	Evangelical Lutheran theologian, consistorial councilor and abbot in Loccum monastery	65
October 22nd	Heinrich Friedrich Delius	German medic	71
October 25	Herbert Mackworth, 1st Baronet	British politician, industrialist and nobleman	54
October 26th	Joseph Freiherr von Sperges	Austrian diplomat	66

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 4th	Johann Friedrich Scheuchler	German civil servant
November 4th	Thomas Gadsden	American Continental Army officer and Province of South Carolina politician
November 5th	Josef Bardarini	Italian-Austrian theologian and library director	83
November 9th	Johann Heinrich Justus Köppen	German philologist and educator	35
November 11th	Johann Gottfried Kiel	German painter and cantor	74
November 12th	Heinrich Paulizky	German doctor and writer	39
November 13th	Chrysostom Forchner	German baroque painter	70
November 16	Ernst Peter von Podewils	Prussian officer and district administrator	54
November 18	Nikolaus Lauxen	German architect of the late baroque	69
22nd of November	Johann Esaia's silver strike	Theologian and scientist	70
25. November	Giovanni Battista Ferrandini	Italian composer
November 26th	Johann Jakob Pfeiffer	German Protestant theologian	51
November 27th	Jacob Friedrich von den Brincken	imperial-royal field marshal lieutenant
November 28th	Louis Marie Bretagne de Rohan-Chabot	French nobleman and officer	81
November	Friedrich Christian Goering	Protestant theologian and general superintendent in Pomerania	55

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Simon Heinrich Sack	German lawyer, Royal Prussian Court and Justice Commission Council in Glogau, founder of the Hofrat Simon Heinrich Sack'schen Family Foundation	68
3rd of December	Christian Georg Schütz the Elder	German painter and engraver	73
December 5th	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Composer of the Viennese Classic	35
9th of December	Edward Winnington, 1st Baronet	British politician
10th of December	Jakob Joseph Frank	Jewish sect leader
12th of December	Jean-François Alliette	French occultist and tarot researcher
13th December	Mathieu Tillet	French botanist, agronomist, administrator and metallurgist	77
December 14th	Johann Franz Christoph Steinmetz	German Protestant theologian	61
December 17th	David Tevele ship	Great Rabbi of the United Kingdom
20th of December	Christian Wilhelm Haken	German Protestant pastor and writer	68
21st December	Arnaud Berquin	French author of books for children and young people	44
25 December	Claus Fasting	Norwegian editor, author and critic	45
December	Caspar Stoll	German entomologist

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Johann Jakob Adam	German goldsmith
	Giambattista Gherardo d'Arco	economics author
	Dutty Boukman	Leader of the first decisive slave revolt in 1791 in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti
	Rafael Antonio Castellanos	Guatemalan composer and cathedral music director
	Abraham Darby III	English iron manufacturer and builder of the Ironbridge
	Salomon Michael David	German banker and entrepreneur
	Giuseppe Demachi	Italian violinist and pre-classical composer
	Anton Heinrich du Plat	Lieutenant Colonel and cartographer from Hanover
	Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont	French architect and etcher
	Julius August von der Horst	Prussian Minister
	Jamyang Koenchog Jigme Wangpo	2. Jamyang Shepa of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism
	Dyre Kearney	American politician
	Martin Friedrich Knoblauch	Prussian building inspector
	Joseph Franz Malcote	German painter
	Ngawang Tshulthrim	1. Tshemönling Regent
	Sayakumane	Regent and King of the Kingdom of Champasak
	Suriyavong II.	King of the Lao Kingdom of Luang Phrabang