Nekrolog 1792
This is a list of famous people who died in 1792 . 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 | George Ulrich von Lettow | Prussian manor owner and district administrator of the Greifenberg district | ||
| January 2nd | Philipp Friedrich Welker | German civil servant | 53 | |
| January 3rd | Balthasar Haug | German writer and humanities scholar | 60 | |
| January 3rd | Christian Podbielski | German organist and composer in Königsberg | ||
| January 7th | Samuel Wilhelm Oetter | Heraldist and Count of the Palatinate | ||
| 10. January | Hans Joachim Steinmann | Mayor of St. Gallen | 88 | |
| January 18th | Matthias Fackler | German altar carpenter in the Erdinger and Dorfen area | 70 | |
| January 20th | Johann Christian Blasche | German Lutheran theologian | 73 | |
| January 24th | Johann Christian Wilhelm Verpoorten | German physician, personal physician and councilor | 70 | |
| January 25th | Fedele Fischetti | Italian painter | 59 | |
| January 25th | Godehard Kufner | German religious and canon lawyer | 48 | |
| January 26th | Antoine-Louis Séguier | French lawyer | 65 | |
| January 28th | Carl Gotthelf Glaeser the Elder | Rector and Cantor in Ehrenfriedersdorf | 77 | |
| 31 January | Christian Gottfried Boeckh | German pedagogue and theologian, author and editor | 59 |
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1st | Michael Ambrosovszky | Hungarian church historian | 89 | |
| February 1st | Johann Wilhelm von Dittmar | royal Prussian major general, director of the III. Department of the Oberkriegskolleg and chief of the 1st field artillery regiment | 66 | |
| February 4th | Viktoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym | Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth | 76 | |
| February 10th | George Plater | American politician | 56 | |
| 13th February | Detlev Alexander von Wenckstern | German lawyer, author, real secret council, judge, chamber president and president of the higher appeal court in Celle | 83 | |
| 14th of February | William Smallwood | American politician | ||
| February 16 | Johann Christian Hofmann | German civil servant | 53 | |
| 20. February | Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld | Danish university professor of philosophy and fine arts as well as author of a set of rules on garden art | 50 | |
| 20. February | Mariano Martí | Spanish bishop | 71 | |
| February 23 | Joshua Reynolds | English painter | 68 | |
| February 28 | Johann Bergmüller | Kistler, joiners, joiners, menuisier and artisans | 53 | |
| February 28 | Johann Christoph Rudolph | German lawyer and university professor | 66 | |
| February 29th | Johann Andreas Stein | German organ and piano builder | 63 | |
| February | Karl Marquis de Ville | Austrian general of the cavalry |
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st March | Angelo Emo | Venetian Grand Admiral | 61 | |
| 1st March | Leopold II. | Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Archduke of Austria etc., Grand Duke of Tuscany, from the House of Habsburg-Lothringen | 44 | |
| 1st March | Andreas Meinrad from Ow | German painter | 79 | |
| 2nd March | Carl Gustaf Pilo | Swedish-Danish portrait painter | 80 | |
| 3 March | Robert Adam | Scottish architect | 63 | |
| 5. March | Georg Wilhelm von Willich | Judge at the Higher Appeal Court | 73 | |
| 6th March | Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer | German organ builder | ||
| 8th of March | Johann Julius von Hecht | Prussian privy councilor and minister in the Lower Saxony Reichskreis | ||
| 8th of March | Friedrich Germanus Lüdke | Theologian, field preacher, archdeacon Nikoleikirche in Berlin | 61 | |
| March 10th | John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | British Prime Minister | 78 | |
| March 12th | Christoph Eberhard Friedrich von Degenfeld | Lord of Neuhaus, co-lord of Ehrstädt, on the Eulenhof, on the Unterbiegelhof, in Waibstadt and in Wagenbach. | 55 | |
| March 13th | Hamad ibn Said | Sayyid of Muscat (1784–1792) | ||
| the 14th of March | Anton Diedrich Wilken | German businessman and mayor of Lübeck | ||
| March, 20th | Luís António Verney | Portuguese enlightener, theologian, priest, philosopher, writer and thinker | 78 | |
| 27th of March | Friedrich Ludwig Benda | German violinist and composer | ||
| 27th of March | Daniel Bilger | Swiss reformed pastor and educator | 78 | |
| March 29 | Gustav III | King of Sweden (1771–1792) | 46 | |
| March 30 | Albert Christian Heinrich von Brühl | Prussian officer and diplomat, Saxon and Prussian major general, knight of the Order of Malta | ||
| March 31 | Ludwig Count Cobenzl | Provost | 48 | |
| March 31 | Georg Ludolf von Wulffen | Prussian major general and heir to Fürstenfeld and Büssow | 73 |
April
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd of April | George Pocock | British admiral | 86 |
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4. April | James Sykes | American politician | ||
| April 5th | Andreas Weiss | Swiss lawyer | 78 | ||||||
| 10th of April | Philipp Ernst von Borcke | Prussian major general | 62 | ||||||
| 10th of April | Adolph Detlef from Usedom | royal Prussian lieutenant general | 65 | ||||||
| April 13th | Karl Eduard von Tiedemann | Prussian major general | 67 | ||||||
| April 14th | Johann Carl Friedrich von Brause | Lutheran theologian, Superintendent von Oschatz | 62 | ||||||
| April 14th | Leopold Nicolaus von Ende | Saxon politician and minister | 76 | ||||||
| April 14th | Maximilian Hell | Austrian astronomer and Jesuit | 71 | ||||||
| April 21 | Tiradentes | Conspirators against the Portuguese colonial power and national hero of Brazil | |||||||
| April 22 | Michael Leuckart | German book printer | |||||||
| April 23 | Karl Friedrich Bahrdt | German Protestant theologian | 50 | ||||||
| April 25 | Nicolas Jacques Pelletier | French murderer, first guillotined | |||||||
| April 27 | Jacob Johan Anckarström | Swedish assassin | 29 | ||||||
| April 29 | Theobald Dillon | Irish military leader in the French Revolutionary Wars and Earl of Dillon | |||||||
| April, 30th | Hans Adolph Friedrich von Eschstruth | German lawyer, music writer and composer | 36 | ||||||
| April, 30th | John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich | British diplomat and statesman | 73 |
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4th | Giuseppe Garampi | Cardinal and historian | 66 | |
| 10th of May | John Stevens | American politician | 75 | |
| May 11th | Richard Hergest | British naval officer and explorer | ||
| May 11th | Friedrich Christoph zu Solms-Wildenfels | German general | 80 | |
| 12th of May | Charles-Simon Favart | French opera and comedy poet | 81 | |
| May 15 | Maria Ludovica of Spain | Spanish princess, Holy Roman Empress | 46 | |
| May 20th | Antoine Louis | French doctor and physiologist | 69 | |
| May 22 | Johann Christoph Samuel Seger | German theologian | 53 | |
| May 22 | Johann Gottfried Sillig | German Protestant clergyman | 57 | |
| 23. May | George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney | British naval admiral | 74 | |
| May | Carl Traugott Schmidt | Saxon mountain master, mountain sworn and guardein |
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd of June | Caesar Constantin Franz von Hoensbroech | Prince-Bishop of Liège (1784–1792) | 67 | |
| June 4th | John Burgoyne | British general and writer | 70 | |
| June 4th | Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | German writer | 41 | |
| June 10th | Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon | French violinist, composer, music theorist, author, translator and member of the Académie française | 61 | |
| June 13th | Ernst Heinrich von Gillern | Prussian major general | 62 | |
| 15th June | Frederik Sneedorff | Danish historian | 31 | |
| June 16 | Gregor Lederwasch IV | Austrian painter | ||
| June 16 | Georg Andreas Weise | German Lutheran theologian | 54 | |
| 20th June | Peder Aadnes | Norwegian painter | 52 | |
| June 26th | Hans Heinrich Ludwig von Rohr | Prussian lieutenant general | 72 | |
| June 22 | Johann Thaddäus Anton Peithner von Lichtenfels | Bohemian mining scientist | 65 | |
| June 29th | Juan de Velasco | Spanish religious | 65 | |
| June 30th | Johann Maria Farina III | Perfume maker | 78 | |
| June 30th | Antonio Rosetti | German classical composer |
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd of July | Ferdinand of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel | Prussian Field Marshal General | 71 | |
| 5th July | Otto Hermann von Vietinghoff | General Director of the All-Russian Medical College | 69 | |
| July 11th | Felix Johann Albrecht Mylius | German lawyer | ||
| July 11th | Andreas Alexander von Schlichten | Prussian major general, leader of a volunteer corps | ||
| July 18th | John Paul Jones | Pirate, naval hero, naval pioneer and freedom fighter in the American War of Independence | 45 | |
| July 19 | Johann Franz Coing | German theologian and university professor | 67 | |
| 20th of July | Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb | Islamic scholar of Hanbali teaching | ||
| 21 July | Dawit Guramishvili | Georgian poet | ||
| 21 July | Cai from Rantzau | Herr auf Gaartz, monastery provost of Preetz and Schleswig and holder of the Danebrog order. | 66 | |
| 22nd of July | Antonin Boll | Czech philosopher of the Jesuits | 70 | |
| 29th of July | René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de Maupeou | Chancellor of France | 78 | |
| July 31 | Jürgen Christian Findorff | Peat colonizer | 72 |
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1st | Franz Peter Sennfelder | German theater actor | ||
| August 2nd | Johann Ludwig Schmidt | German legal scholar | 66 | |
| 3rd August | Richard Arkwright | British textile industrialist and inventor | 59 | |
| 5th of August | Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford | Prime Minister of Great Britain | 60 | |
| August 10 | Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre | Politicians during the French Revolution | ||
| August 10 | August Friedrich von Etzdorff | Royal Prussian major general and most recently in the Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 50 | 53 | |
| 18th of August | Franz Grill | Austrian composer | ||
| 18th of August | Johannes Oosterdijk shaft | Dutch medic | 87 | |
| August 22nd | Isidorus Keppler | German Roman Catholic theology professor | 76 |
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2nd | Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire | French officer and governor of the Verdun fortress | 52 | |
| September 2nd | Johann Jakob Bethmann | German merchant and shipowner | 75 | |
| September 2nd | Jean Marie du Lau d'Allemans | last Archbishop of Arles | 53 | |
| September 2nd | Franz Josef Pey | Catholic priest, blessed | 33 | |
| September 3 | Karl Josef Anton Leodegar von Bachmann | Swiss field marshal in French service | 57 | |
| September 3 | Marie-Louise of Savoy-Carignan | French lady-in-waiting, confidante of Marie-Antoinette | 42 | |
| September 4th | Louis-Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld | French nobleman and politician | 49 | |
| the 9th of September | Charles-Xavier Franqueville d'Abancourt | French Minister of War (1792) | 34 | |
| September 11 | Gerhard Joseph von Herresdorf | Priest and official | ||
| September 11 | Johann Konrad Pfenninger | Swiss reformed theologian, clergyman and hymn poet | 44 | |
| 12th September | Ulrike Luise zu Solms-Braunfels | Landgrave and Regent of Hessen-Homburg | 61 | |
| 13.september | Johann Georg Nathusius | German pastor in Sadisdorf | 70 | |
| 13.september | Georg Christoph Schwarz | German Catholic clergyman and university professor | 60 | |
| September 14th | Jan Andries Vander Mersch | Leader of the Brabant patriots in the Brabant Revolution 1789 | 58 | |
| September 15th | André Boniface Louis Riquetti de Mirabeau | French Conservative opponent of the French Revolution | 37 | |
| 16th September | Henri-Léonard Bertin | French Minister of Finance | 72 | |
| September 18 | Georg Browne | Russian field marshal | 94 | |
| September 18 | August Gottlieb Spangenberg | Bishop and second founder of the Evangelical Brotherhood | 88 | |
| 21st September | Philipp von Westphalen | Confidante and collaborator of Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig | ||
| September 23rd | Wigand Deltsch | Abbot of the Waldsassen Monastery | 84 | |
| 25th of September | Jacques Cazotte | French author | 72 | |
| 25th of September | Adam Gottlob von Moltke | Danish Oberhofmarschall | 81 | |
| September 26th | Johann Friedrich Knöbel | Saxon architect | 68 | |
| September 28th | Isabel Godin des Odonais | traveler | ||
| 30. September | Johann Baptist Horix | German lawyer, constitutional law teacher and civil servant in brief Mainz and imperial services |
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1 | Ludwig Benjamin Ouvrier | German Protestant theologian | 57 | |
| October 6th | Georg Ludwig von Gilsa | Prussian major general | 61 | |
| October 7th | George Mason | American politician | 66 | |
| 8th October | Alois Merz | German Roman Catholic clergyman (SJ), cathedral preacher in Augsburg | 65 | |
| October 10th | Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave | English explorer | 48 | |
| October 10th | August Friedrich Schott | German legal scholar | 48 | |
| October 13th | Johann Philipp Kahler | Lutheran theologian | 66 | |
| October 14th | Sophie Charlotte Ackermann | German actress | 78 | |
| October 18 | Heinrich Theodor von Hallberg | Electoral Palatinate or Bavarian diplomat and imperial count | 67 | |
| October 21 | August Franz Essenius | Legation councilor and resident at the Polish court | 68 | |
| October 22nd | Guillaume Le Gentil | French astronomer | 67 | |
| 28th of October | Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring | German doctor, botanist and ornithologist | 82 | |
| 28th of October | John Smeaton | English engineer | 68 | |
| October 29th | Johann Wilhelm Siebel | Mayor of Elberfeld | 49 |
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1st | Ferdinand Philipp von Harsch | Governor of Silesia, commanding general of the Temescher Banat, architect, builder of the fortresses Königgrätz and Arad | 87 | |
| November 4th | Benigno Bossi | Italian engraver | 65 | |
| November 6th | Johann Friedrich Camerer | German playwright, lawyer, court officer, hobby archaeologist and folklorist | ||
| November 8th | Heinrich Braun | Education and school reformers, theology | 60 | |
| November 11th | Otto Friedrich von Ilow | Prussian major general | 65 | |
| November 11th | Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More | German philologist and Lutheran theologian | 55 | |
| November 19th | Johann Christoph Berens | Commercial entrepreneur, councilor and scout | 63 | |
| November 23 | Philip Thicknesse | British travel writer, British Army officer and eccentric | ||
| November 24th | Wilhelm Ludwig Wekhrlin | German journalist and writer | 53 | |
| 25. November | Johann Heinrich von Kerens | Catholic bishop of Roermond, Wiener Neustadt and St. Pölten | 67 | |
| November 29th | Ernst Christian Westphal | German legal scholar | 55 | |
| 30th of November | Johann Heinrich Wepler | German theologian and university professor | 37 | |
| November | Samuel Hearne | English explorer, fur trader, author and naturalist | ||
| November | Karl Friedrich Zimdar | German actor, singer and dramaturge |
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1 | Johann Jakob von Collas | Prussian major and landowner | 71 | |
| December 1 | Jan Frans Vonck | Dutch lawyer and one of the leaders of the Brabant Revolution | 49 | |
| December 1 | Markus Welzel | Abbot of the Cistercian monasteries Heinrichau and Zirc | 63 | |
| December 1 | Ernst Wilhelm Wolf | German concertmaster and composer | 57 | |
| 2. December | Johann Christoph Döderlein | German theologian | 47 | |
| 2. December | Veit Koeniger | South Tyrolean sculptor | 63 | |
| 3rd of December | Simon Sorg | Bavarian sculptor of the Rococo and Early Classicism | ||
| December 8th | Henry Laurens | American politician | 68 | |
| 9th of December | Franz Hermann Heinrich Lueder | German pastor and botanist | ||
| 10th of December | Franz Anton Knittel | German Protestant clergyman and palaeographer | 71 | |
| 10th of December | August Nordenskiöld | Swedish alchemist and miner | 38 | |
| 12th of December | Denis Ivanovich Fonwisin | Russian satirist and comedy poet | 47 | |
| 12th of December | Johann Philipp Hagen | German surgeon, obstetrician and university professor | 58 | |
| 12th of December | Arthur Lee | American politician and diplomat | 51 | |
| December 14th | Karl Christian Erdmann | Duke of Württemberg-Oels | 76 | |
| 15th December | Joseph Martin Kraus | German composer and Kapellmeister | 36 | |
| December 16 | Georg Petermann | German Protestant theologian | 82 | |
| December 17th | Gottlieb Welté | German painter | ||
| December 18th | Johann van Beethoven | Father of Ludwig van Beethoven | 52 | |
| December 18th | James Rumsey | American engineer and inventor | 49 | |
| December 18th | Kasimir Christoph Schmidel | German doctor and botanist | 74 | |
| 20th of December | Sven Rinman | Swedish mining expert, mineralogist and chemist | 72 | |
| 21st December | Antonio Boroni | Italian composer | ||
| 23rd of December | Ulrich Büchel | Swiss builder of the late baroque and early classicism | 38 | |
| 24th of December | Karl Gottlob Just | German lawyer and mayor of Zittau | 58 | |
| 24th of December | Philipp Ludwig Wittwer | German medic | 40 | |
| December 27th | Martin Ludwig von Eichmann | Prussian general | 82 | |
| December 28th | Peter Van Brugh Livingston | American politician | 82 |
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Baudeau | French economist, theologian, journalist | |||
| Johann Heinrich Boehm | Austrian actor, singer and director | |||
| Jean Bernard Bossu | French captain and explorer | |||
| Maximilien Brébion | French architect | |||
| Georg Friedrich Bunge | German pharmacist and church planter in Kiev | |||
| Johann Conrad Bürgy | Swiss-German organ builder | |||
| Giovanni Battista Casali | Italian choirmaster and composer | |||
| David Franco-Mendes | Jewish poet | |||
| Antonio de Gálvez y Gallardo | Spanish nobleman, civil servant and officer | |||
| Miguel de Gálvez y Gallardo | Spanish nobleman, civil servant, minister and diplomat | |||
| Johann Friedrich von Gemmingen | Brandenburg-Ansbach Chamberlain and Chief Bailiff | |||
| Jean Godin | French naturalist and cartographer | |||
| Gaetano Guadagni | Italian opera singer (Alt-Kastrat) and composer | |||
| Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg | German engraver | |||
| Johann Wilhelm Hannitz | German forger of documents | |||
| Jacob Herschel | Concert music master | |||
| Johann Georg Hitzelberger | German plasterer and builder of the Rococo | |||
| Pierre de la Garde | French pre-classical composer | |||
| Philipp Carl Laubmann | Austrian painter | |||
| François Antoine de Legall | French chess player | |||
| Jean-Louis Barbot de Luchet | French officer, writer, journalist, theater director and librarian | |||
| Nguyễn Huệ | Vietnamese general and second emperor of the Tay Son dynasty | |||
| Samson Occom | Indian, clergyman of the Presbyterian Church (USA) | |||
| Johann Christoph Oesterlein | German piano maker | |||
| Teresa Margarida da Silva e Orta | Brazilian writer | |||
| Louis Guillouet d'Orvilliers | French admiral | |||
| David ben Jakob Pardo | Jewish scholar | |||
| Ludwig Wilhelm von Regulator | Prussian officer, most recently major general and director of the Prussian engineering corps | |||
| Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz von Romberg | Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the Wesel Citadel | |||
| Johann Wilhelm Sckell | German landscape gardener | |||
| Georg Strobel | Portrait painter who mainly worked in Schwäbisch Gmünd | |||
| Karl Ludwig Friedrich Trendelenburg | German physician and Lübeck city physician | |||
| Balzer Peter Vahl | Mayor of Greifswald | |||
| Yazid | Sultan of Morocco | |||
| Carlo Zuccari | Italian violinist and composer of the early classical period | |||
| Franz Seraph Zwinck | German Lüftlmaler |