Nekrolog 1794

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1794 . 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	Daniel Adolf Weber	Mayor of Elberfeld	63
January 3rd	Joachim Ludwig Heydert	Royal court gardener in Potsdam	77
January 4th	Nikolaus von Luckner	Marshal of France	71
January 5th	Lorenz Johann von Wiegel	Prussian major general, commandant of Thorn	65
6th January	Maurice d'Elbée	French commander in the French counter-revolution	41
January 8th	Justus Möser	German writer and politician	73
January 8th	Jean Baptiste Vezin	Violinist, Royal British Concertmaster	81
10. January	Georg Forster	German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary	39
11th January	Jacob Mauvillon	German military writer and representative of Physiocratism	50
January 16	Edward Gibbon	British historian	56
January 17th	Christoph Julius Gravenhorst	German chemist and entrepreneur	62
January 17th	Wilhelm Paul Verpoorten	German educator and Lutheran theologian	72
21th January	René-Louis Ambroise	French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	73
21th January	André Duliou	French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	66
21th January	Francis Shower	French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	58
21th January	Johann Christian Messerschmid	German educator	73
21th January	François Migoret-Lamberdière	French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	65
21th January	Joseph Pellé	French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	74
21th January	Augustin-Emmanuel Philippot	French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	77
21th January	Julien-François Morin de la Girardière	French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	58
21th January	Jean-Baptiste Triquerie	French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	57
21th January	Jean-Baptiste Turpin du Cormier	French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	61
22nd of January	Anton I. Esterházy de Galantha	sixth prince of the Esterházy magnate family	55
22nd of January	John Stuart, Viscount Mount Stuart	British politician	26th
January 23	Karl Friedrich Rehfeld	German physician and university professor	58
January 24th	Ludwig Rousseau	German pharmacist, pharmacist and chemist	69
January 24th	Wilhelm Heinrich von Creuzer	German administrative lawyer and Chamber President of the Duke of Palatinate-Zweibrücken
January 24th	Basil Germann	Swiss Benedictines	66
January 25th	Georg Marcus Stein	German organ and piano builder	55
January 28th	Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf	German typographer and music publisher	74
January 28th	Henri de La Rochejaquelein	French nobleman and one of the leaders of the Vendée uprising during the French Revolution	21st
January	Johann Christoph Wiedemann	German organ builder	63

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Marie Fel	French opera singer	80
3 February	Adolph Christian Wendler	Saxon lawyer and mayor of Leipzig	59
February 4th	Ludwig Beck	German Benedictine abbot	65
February 5th	Andreas Lutz	German court carpenter, was remembered for his "ogre grave"	65
February 5th	Françoise Mezière	French consecrated virgin who was sentenced to death and executed during the French Revolution	48
February 9	Heinrich Ludwig Pfaff	German Protestant theologian, preacher and teacher	28
February 9	Louis de Treytorrens	Swiss mathematician and philosopher	68
February 10th	Jacques Roux	French revolutionary	41
February 11th	André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé	French officer	53
February 15th	Olof Celsius the Younger	Swedish historian and bishop	77
February 16	Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne	French politician and cleric	66
February 18	Joseph Adam Ritter von Mölk	Austrian fresco and panel painter	75
February 18	Elisabeth Augusta Wendling	German soprano singer	41
21st of February	Natalis Pinot	French priest and martyr	46
February 22	Caspar Friedrich Wolff	German physiologist and founder of modern embryology	60
27th of February	Vicente de Herrera y Rivero	Spanish Viceroy of New Spain
27th of February	Jean-Rodolphe Perronet	French architect and civil engineer of modern stone bridge construction	85

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd March	Ludwig	Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken	49
4th of March	Franz Anton Zeiller	Austrian painter	77
5. March	Claes Alströmmer	Swedish businessman and naturalist	57
9th March	Sigismund von Roggenbach	Prince-Bishop of Basel	67
March 10th	Henriette Ernestine Christiane vom Hagen	German poet	33
March, 15	Friedrich Wilhelm von Götzen the Elder	Adjutant General, Governor of County Glatz	59
March 16	Maria Katharina Prestel	Pastel and watercolor painter, engraver and eraser	46
March 18th	Lebrecht Heinrich Samuel Jehne	German Lutheran theologian and educator	46
March 24th	Anacharsis Cloots	Politician and revolutionary in Paris during the French Revolution	38
March 24th	Jacques-René Hébert	French revolutionary	36
March 24th	Antoine-François Momoro	Politician during the French Revolution
March 24th	Charles Philippe Ronsin	French politician during the French Revolution	42
March 24th	François-Nicolas Vincent	Secretary General of the French Ministry of War
25th March	Christian Friedrich Franke	German Protestant theologian	26th
25th March	Augustin-Joseph de Mailly	French general and marshal, Chevalier du Saint-Esprit	85
26th of March	Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra	Spanish naval officer, explorer and navigator
26th of March	Eleonore von Grothaus	poetess	59
26th of March	Philipp Ernst Spieß	German historian, archivist, officer and publicist	59
28th March	Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet	French philosopher, mathematician, politician and communication theorist	50
March 30	Franz Isaak of Froideville	Prussian major general, inspector of the army	73
March 30	Karl Franz von Keoszeghy	royal Prussian major general	72
March 31	Bernardino Galliari	Italian fresco and theater painter	86

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Eulogius Schneider	Franciscans, Jacobins and religious philosopher	37
April 5th	François Chabot	French politician	37
April 5th	Georges Danton	Lawyer, politician at the time of the French Revolution	34
April 5th	Jean-François Delacroix	French politician during the French Revolution	41
April 5th	Camille Desmoulins	Leader of the French Revolution	34
April 5th	Fabre d'Églantine	French poet, actor, dramaturge and revolutionary	43
April 5th	Junius Frey	Austrian army supplier, alchemist, Freemason, Jacobin and Frankist
April 5th	Pierre Philippeaux	French politician and member of the National Convention	40
April 5th	Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles	French politician during the French Revolution	34
April 5th	François-Joseph Westermann	French general of the revolutionary era	42
April 6th	Alexander Petrus Nahuys	Dutch medic, botanist and chemist	57
9th April	Nicolas Maillot de la Treille	Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, court chaplain and court librarian	68
10th of April	Antonio Rinaldi	Italian architect and interior designer
April 13th	Nicolas Chamfort	French author	53
April 13th	Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette	Person during the French Revolution	30th
April 13th	Lucile Desmoulins	Wife of a French revolutionary
April 13th	Arthur Dillon	French politician
April 13th	Jean Baptiste Joseph Gobel	theologian	66
April 14th	Samuel Hieronymus Grimm	Swiss landscape painter and poet	61
April 16	Johann Caspar Hornschuch	Lutheran clergyman and pioneer of beekeeping and asparagus growing	56
17th April	Karl Hammerdörfer	German writer and translator
April 18	Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert	French general	58
April 18	Jean-Joseph de Laborde	French entrepreneur and banker
April 22	Casper Ludwig von Below	West Prussian district administrator and landscape director
April 22	Georg Philipp Dohlhoff	Mayor of the Palatinate Colony of Magdeburg	60
April 22	Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier	Politician during the French Revolution	39
April 22	Jacques Guillaume Thouret	French lawyer and active participant in the French Revolution	47
April 23	Christian Moritz Alexander von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf	Prussian major general	62
April 23	Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes	French politician	72
April 23	Peter Ludolph Spangenberg	German physician and university professor	54
April 24th	Fredrik Axel von Fersen	Swedish Land Marshal	75
April 24th	Simon Kossakowski	Lithuanian nobleman, lieutenant general in the service of Tsarist Russia
April 27	James Bruce	Scottish naturalist and traveler	63
April 27	William Jones	English orientalist and lawyer	47
April 27	Everard Scheidius	Dutch Reformed theologian, philologist and orientalist	51
April 28	Charles Henri d'Estaing	French admiral	64
April 28	Jean-Frédéric de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet	French officer and minister of war	67
April 28	Beda Mayr	German-Christian scholar	52
April 29	Reinhold Friedrich von Löwis of Menar	Russian major general	62
April, 30th	Johann Daniel Müller	German theologian	72

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
May 4th	Ernst Johann von Taube	Courland Chancellor and Councilor	53
May 6th	Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier	French organist and composer	59
8th of May	Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier	French chemist	50
May 9	Joseph Kasimir Korwin Kossakowski	Bishop of Livonia, Suffragan of Trakai and Coadjutor of Vilnius	56
10th of May	Elisabeth Philippine Marie Hélène de Bourbon	french princess	30th
May 15	Suzanne Curchod	Swiss writer and the wife of the French finance minister Jacques Necker	56
May 16	Johann Friedrich von Drouart	Royal Prussian Major General and Commander of Garrison Regiment No. 2	80
May 18	Christoph Weidlich	German lawyer	80
23. May	Stepan Ivanovich Scheschkowski	Russian privy councilor and investigative officer under Catherine II.	66
May 26	Wilhelm von Alhaus	Lord of the Cross and Auxiliary Bishop in Münster and Osnabrück	77
May 27th	Mathieu Jouve Jourdan	French revolutionary	47

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Johann Leopold von Hay	Bishop of Königgrätz	59
2th of June	Adolf Friedrich IV.	Duke of Mecklenburg; ruling Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1752–1794)	56
2th of June	Friedrich of Anhalt	Count of Anhalt, General	62
2th of June	Gottlieb Lebrecht Spohn	German pedagogue, philologist and Protestant theologian	38
3rd of June	Thomas Dundas	Scottish officer and politician, member of the House of Commons	43
June 5th	Ludwig Gottlieb Crome	German philologist, author and translator	51
8th June	Gottfried August Bürger	German poet	46
June 9th	Girolamo Tiraboschi	Italian religious, Romanist and literary historian	62
June 9th	Robert Ross	British Naval Officer and Deputy Governor of New South Wales
June 11th	Ambrosius Balbus	German Cistercian abbot	89
June 11th	Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski	German painter
15th June	Anton Wilhelm Christian Fink	German writer
June 16	Marguerite Élie Guadet	French revolutionary leader	35
June 16	Georg Heinrich von Roßkampff	Mayor of Heilbronn	73
17th of June	Cécile Renault	French historical figure of the French Revolution
18th of June	François-Nicolas-Léonard Buzot	French revolutionary	34
18th of June	James Murray	first British governor of Quebec	73
18th of June	Ralph Clark	British naval officer and journalist	32
June 19th	Richard Henry Lee	sixth President of the Continental Congress, signatory of the United States Constitution	62
June 19th	Ildephons black	German Catholic theologian	41
20th June	Félix Vicq d'Azyr	French physician and comparative anatomist	46
23rd June	James Graham	Scottish doctor	49
June 24th	Johann Adam Groß the Younger	German architect and master builder	65
25th June	Antoine Allut	French lawyer, politician, glass manufacturer and encyclopedist	50
25th June	Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux	French politician	27
June 27th	Claude-Victor de Broglie	French politician and general	37
June 27th	Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg	Austrian diplomat and politician	83
June 27th	Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet	French author	57
June 27th	Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy	Marshal of France	78
June 29th	Johann Michael Lobstein	German Lutheran theologian	54
June 30th	Rozalia Lubomirska	Polish nobles at the time of the French Revolution	25th

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd July	František Xaver Pokorný	bohemian composer	64
3rd of July	Vincent of Orsini-Rosenberg	Austrian nobleman and politician	71
7th of July	Richard Mique	French architect	65
7th of July	Aimar-Charles-Marie de Nicolaï	French official of the Ancien Régime	46
8th of July	Ernst Georg Sonnin	Hamburg engineer and architect	81
July 9	Georg Dietrich von der Groeben	Prussian lieutenant general	68
10th of July	Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny	French officer and general	39
July 12	Jean Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville	French general controller of finances (1745–1754)	92
July 13th	Josse-François-Joseph Benaut	Belgian organist, harpsichord player and composer	52
July 13th	Filippo Lancellotti	Italian cardinal of the Roman Church	61
July 13th	James Lind	Scottish doctor and ship hygiene pioneer in the British Navy (Royal Navy)	77
July 13th	Theodor Philipp von Pfau	Prussian major general, governor von Glatz
July 14th	Jean-Frédéric Edelmann	French classical composer	45
17th July	John Roebuck	English inventor
17th July	Charlotte Thouret	French Carmelite and Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	78
22nd of July	Louis-Charles de Flers	French division general	40
July 23	Alexandre de Beauharnais	President of the French National Assembly shortly after the Revolution	34
July 23	Friedrich III.	sovereign prince in the principality of Salm	49
July 25th	André Chénier	French author	31
July 25th	Franz von Gumer	Mayor of Bolzano and founder of a Masonic lodge in Bolzano
July 25th	Friedrich von der Trenck	Prussian officer and adventurer	68
July 26th	Charles-François de Saint-Simon Sandricourt	last bishop of Agde	67
July 26th	Pierre-Joseph Le Groing de la Romagère	French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church	42
July 27th	Johann Wilhelm Wallot	German-French astronomer
July 28th	Georges Couthon	French revolutionary	38
July 28th	Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot	French revolutionary
July 28th	François Hanriot	French revolutionary	34
July 28th	Philippe-François-Joseph Le Bas	French politician	29
July 28th	Augustin Robespierre	French politician during the French Revolution, younger brother of Maximilien de Robespierre	31
July 28th	Maximilien de Robespierre	French politician	36
July 28th	Louis Antoine de Saint-Just	French writer and revolutionary	26th

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5th of August	William Fleming	American politician	65
5th of August	Gregorio Antonio Maria Salviati	Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church	66
6th of August	Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst	British lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor (1771–1778)	80
August 7th	Edmund Angerer	Austrian Benedictine priest, church musician and composer	54
August 10	Ferdinand Friedrich von Reichenstein	Prussian major general	71
August 11th	Johann Michael Keller the Younger	German master builder, city master builder in Schwäbisch Gmünd
August 11th	Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht	German composer, flautist, violinist and Kapellmeister
August 11th	Benedikt Schütz von Holzhausen	Bailiff in Kirberg and Camberg	65
12. August	Johann David Beil	German actor and stage poet	40
13 August	Guillaume Mirabel	French general of the cavalry	49
August 14th	George Colman the Elder	English writer	62
August 14th	Johannes Ulrich von Federspill	South Tyrolean impresario and theater writer	55
August 14th	Peter von Hohenthal	responsible district chief	67
15th of August	François de Théas Count of Thoranc	French officer and art collector	75
17th August	Elisabeth Auguste von Pfalz-Sulzbach	by marriage Electress of the Palatinate and Bavaria	73
18th of August	Friedrich von Oven	Prussian major general and chief of garrison regiment No. 10	73
August 24th	Hendrik Hooft	Mayor of Amsterdam	78
August 25	Leopold August Abel	German violinist, composer and painter	76
August 25	Florimond Claude by Mercy-Argenteau	Austrian diplomat	67
August 31	Christiane of Mecklenburg	Duchess of Mecklenburg, member of the ducal house of Mecklenburg-Strelitz	58

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Georg Ernst Ludwig von Preuschen von und zu Liebenstein	District President zu Dillenburg, Privy Council	67
September 1	Catherine Théot	French mystic and preacher	78
September 4th	Daniel von Peharnik-Hotkovich	Austrian general and knight of the Military Maria Theresa Order
September 11	Don Miguel de Gijón y León	Hispanic businessman, nobleman, and confidante of Pablo de Olavide	76
13.september	Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian	French poet	39
September 15th	Abraham Clark	American politician, one of the founding fathers of the United States	69
September 18	Philipp Ferdinand of Limburg-Styrum	German nobleman, Count of Limburg, Lord of Styrum	60
September 23rd	Heinrich Julius Bruns	Brandenburg-Prussian teacher	48
September 24th	Edvard Storm	Norwegian poet and educator	45
25th of September	Paul Rabaut	French evangelical preacher and pastor	76
September 26th	August Rudolf von Knobelsdorff	Royal Prussian Major General and Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 32	67
September 29th	Franz Anton von Nostitz-Rieneck	Czech nobleman	69
30. September	Franz Ludolph Ferdinand von Wildau	Prussian lieutenant general	69

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 6th	Friedrich Gottlieb Barth	German pedagogue and linguist	56
October 6th	Alexander Gillon	American politician
October 10th	Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby	Anglican Archbishop of Armagh
October 14th	Christian Günther III.	Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen	58
October 14th	Joseph Montgomery	American politician	61
15th October	Claude Louis Michel de Sacy	French author	48
October 17th	Friedrich Georg Christoph von Hellermann	District Administrator of the Principality of District	70
October 18	Johann Ernst Heinsius	German painter	63
October 21	Antoine Petit	French doctor, surgeon and encyclopaedist	72
the 20th of October	Margarethe Elisabeth Milow	German housewife and housemother at a boys' boarding school	46
October 25	Johann Karl Theodor von Brabeck	Abbot and Prince-Bishop of Corvey	56
October 25	Metta from Oberg	German muse of Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg	56
28th of October	Andreas of Riaucour	Imperial Count and diplomat in the service of the Elector of Saxony	72
30th of October	Lotf Ali Khan	last Zand Prince and Shah of Persia
October	Isaac Roosevelt	American trader and politician	67

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 1st	Michael Ignaz Schmidt	German historian	58
November 3rd	François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis	French cardinal, foreign minister and poet	79
November 4th	Levin Gideon Friedrich von Apenburg	Prussian cavalry officer	70
November 6th	Mary Wortley-Montagu, 1st Baroness Mount Stuart	British nobles	76
November 9th	Hryhoriy Skovoroda	Ukrainian philosopher, poet and musician	71
November 12th	Martin Friedrich Pitiscus	German orientalist and librarian	72
November 13th	Friedrich Christian I.	Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg	73
15th of November	Maria Franziska von Pfalz-Sulzbach	Countess Palatine von Sulzbach and by marriage Countess Palatine and Duchess von Birkenfeld	70
15th of November	John Witherspoon	Signatory of the Declaration of Independence and Dean of Princeton University	71
November 16	Rudolf Erich Raspe	German librarian, writer and polymath
November 17th	Julius Philipp Heintzmann	royal Prussian mountain ridge and entrepreneur	49
November 17th	Johann Martin Preissler	German engraver	79
November 18	Jacques François Dugommier	French general	56
November 18	Thank God Christian Klügel	German lawyer	82
22nd of November	John Alsop	American politician
November 24th	Pieter Nieuwland	Dutch poet, mathematician and naturalist	30th
November 28th	Cesare Beccaria	Italian legal philosopher	56
November 28th	Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben	German emigrant and American general	64
November 29th	Sophie Friederike of Mecklenburg	Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Hereditary Princess of Denmark	36
November	Antonio Dominici	Italian painter	57

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost	German medic and theologian	79
December 4th	Giovanni Meneghetti	Italian pre-classical composer	63
10th of December	Philipp Christian von Bohlen	Prussian lieutenant general and regiment owner	76
11th December	Georg Wilhelm von dem Bussche	Brunswick-Lüneburg general of the infantry	68
December 14th	Georg Theodor Strobel	German Lutheran theologian and church historian	58
December 16	Jean-Baptiste Carrier	French revolutionary	38
23rd of December	Heart samson	German banker and chamber agent of Jewish origin
24th of December	Bartholomew III by Tinti	Austrian freemason and violinist	58
December 27th	Johann Theodor Pyl	German doctor and coroner	45
December 31	Charles-François Lhomond	French Latinist and Romanist
December 31	Carl von der Osten-Sacken	Saxon and Prussian ministers	68

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Mustafa Achmatowicz	Tatar lieutenant in the Lithuanian army
	Robert Barron	British inventor
	François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut	French author
	Joseph Gardner	American politician
	Benjamin Peter Gloxin	German botanist and doctor
	Melchior Hefele	Austrian architect
	Ernst August von Meding	Braunschweig-Lüneburg nobleman and lieutenant general
	Michael Nestius	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
	Thomas Mudge	English master watchmaker and the inventor of the lever escapement
	Ignácio Parreiras Neves	Brazilian composer
	Alejandro O'Reilly	Spanish governor of colonial Louisiana
	Giuseppe Paladini	Italian painter
	Johann Ludwig Petri	German horticultural artist
	Johann Friedrich Rosenzweig	German university riding and stable master
	Hermann Ernst Rumpel	German lawyer, librarian, headmaster and university professor
	Johann Michael Scheibenpogen	City judge and mayor of the Upper Austrian capital Linz
	Franz Daniel von Schwachheim	Pharmacist in Lausanne, owner of Bad Schinznach and host of the "Helvetic Society"
	Skúli Magnússon	Icelandic governor
	Maximilian Wilhelm Siegmund of Stetten	German officer, Teutonic Knight, Governor of Würzburg
	Pierre Jean Louis Victor Thuillier	French revolutionary and politician
	Niklaus Emanuel Tscharner	Swiss magistrate and economist
	Tsuga Teishō	Japanese writer
	Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve	Leader during the French Revolution
	Jacques-François Villiers	French doctor and translator
	Carl Gustav von Wolffradt	Swedish-Pomeranian lawyer and governor of Rügen