Nekrolog 1796

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1796 . 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	Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde	French musician, mathematician and chemist	60
January 4th	August von Dohna-Lauck	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 44	67
January 4th	Johann Fulde	German musician and Protestant pastor	77
January 5th	Samuel Huntington	Leader of the American Independence Movement and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States	64
January 5th	Anna Barbara Reinhart	Swiss mathematician	65
6th January	Joachim Friedrich Bolten	German doctor and conchologist	77
January 8th	Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois	French revolutionary
10. January	Philipp Wilhelm Grimm	German lawyer; Hanau bailiff; Father of the Brothers Grimm	44
January 16	Erich G. Laxmann	Russian pastor, professor of economics, scientist and traveler	58
22nd of January	Friedrich Gotthilf Findeisen	German pedagogue and writer
22nd of January	Bernhard Hupfeld	German composer and concert master	78
January 23	Wilhelm Hanser	Composer, organist and music teacher	57
January 23	Johannes Kopp	German building yard inspector	61
January 23	Friedrich Wilhelm von Rohdich	Prussian officer, most recently general of the infantry as well as secret state and war minister	76
January 23	Ole Johan Samsøe	Danish poet	36
January 27th	Charles of Amadei	Imperial Habsburg officer, lastly Lieutenant Field Marshal
January 27th	Francesco Maria Banditi	Bishop of Montefiascone, Archbishop of Benevento, Cardinal Presbyter	89

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Franz Willibald Schmidt	Bohemian botanist and plant painter	31
February 4th	Friedrich August von Haeseler	Electoral Saxon chamberlain and chief forest and game master	66
February 4th	David Ruetschmann	Augustinian monk, mathematician, watchmaker and mechanic	69
February 5th	Christoph Kersten	German missionary and company founder in Suriname	62
February 6th	Engelbert Engemann	Abbot of the Benedictine monastery Huysburg	78
February 8	John Sibthorp	English botanist	37
13th February	Heinrich August	Reich General Field Marshal	80
February 16	Caterina Gabrielli	Italian opera singer
February 16	Jean Romilly	Swiss watchmaker, journalist and encyclopaedist	81
February 17th	James Macpherson	Scottish writer and politician	59
February 18	Eberhard Gaupp	Swiss businessman	61
February 22	Johann Baptist Ambrosi	German theologian and preacher	54
February 23	Jean-Nicolas Stofflet	General on the side of the Catholic-royalist motivated Vendée uprising against revolutionary France	43
February 24th	Karl Aloys von Königsegg-Aulendorf	Auxiliary Bishop in Cologne	69
February 25	Lorenz Adam Bartenstein	German Protestant clergyman, educator and school principal	84
February 25	Giovanni Battista Borghi	Italian pre-classical composer	57
February 25	Samuel Seabury	Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA	66
27th of February	Bernhard Friedrich von Eickstedt	Prussian major general	64
February 28	Friedrich Wilhelm Rust	German composer	56
February 29th	Marie-Anne Botot Dangeville	french actress	81
February 29th	François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie	French naval officer and one of the leaders of the Vendée uprising	32

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz	Swedish architect	80
2nd March	Thomas Scott	American politician
5. March	Jakob Friedrich of the East	Danish Major General and Chief of the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment	78
6th March	Guillaume Thomas François Raynal	French author	82
7th March	Christoph August Bode	German university professor, philologist and orientalist	73
7th March	Paul Chevallier	Dutch Reformed theologian	73
8th of March	William Chambers	British architect
8th of March	Kaspar Sigismund von Lüttwitz	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 42	63
March 10th	Abraham Kersten	German entrepreneur and banker	63
March 11	Friedrich Samuel Schmidt	German-Swiss scholar and diplomat	59
March 12th	Martin Gottlieb Pauli	German legal scholar	75
March 12th	Franz Töpsl	German Catholic theologian, provost of Polling Monastery	84
March 13th	Alexandre Deleyre	French man of letters and encyclopedist	70
March 13th	Heinrich Daniel Jacobi	German steel mill director	70
March 18th	Benno Grueber	German church musician, composer and Benedictine priest	36
19th March	Georg Wilhelm von Minckwitz	Prussian major general	60
19th March	Hugh Palliser	British Admiral in the Royal Navy	74
19th March	Stephen Storace	British composer	33
March 21st	Friedrich Ludwig Christian Cropp	German doctor, book and art collector	77
March 23	Johann Wilhelm Beyer	German landscape architect, painter, sculptor and porcelain artist	70
March 24th	Antonio Caballero y Góngora	Spanish priest and colonial administrator	72
27th of March	Christoph Ludwig Rudolph von Reitzenstein	Chief of the Jägerkorps Ansbach-Bayreuth in North America, Royal Prussian Major General and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 56	60
March 30	Auguste Wilhelmine of Hessen-Darmstadt	Princess of Hessen-Darmstadt, by marriage Duchess of Pfalz-Zweibrücken	30th

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd of April	Ulrika Pasch	Swedish painter	60
3rd of April	Johannes Plücker	Mayor of Elberfeld	62
3rd of April	Balthasar Wilhelm von Walther and Cronegk	Prussian major and knight of the order Pour le Mérite	75
4. April	Nicola Sabatino	Italian pre-classical composer
April 8th	Thomas Francis Wenman	English politician	50
9th April	Friedrich Albrecht	German sovereign	60
9th April	Johann Christian Schramm	Royal Prussian chamber musician and harpsichordist
10th of April	Anne-Antoinette Diderot	The wife and mother of Denis Diderot's children	86
11 April	Stephan Alexander Würdtwein	German auxiliary bishop and church historian
April 13th	Eleonora Sugar	German actress and singer
April 16	Mary Brant	Leader of the Mohawk Indians during the American Revolutionary War
April 16	Johann Friedrich Doles the Younger	German composer and lawyer	49
April 16	Luke Joseph Hooke	Irish-born theologian, university professor, curator
17th April	Johann Kaspar Eller	Mayor of Elberfeld
April 18	Johan Carl Wilcke	German-Swedish physicist	63
April 23	Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder	German statesman, writer and social critic	55
26th of April	Paul Dietrich Giseke	German doctor, botanist, teacher and librarian	54
April 28	Angelo Maria Durini	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	70
April 28	Josias Ludwig Ernst Püttmann	German legal scholar	65
April 28	Heinrich Christian Michael von Stengel	French general of German origin	51
April, 30th	Franziska von Corvin-Krasińska	Polish-Saxon nobles	54

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Alexandre Guy Pingré	French astronomer	84
2.May	Johann Adolph Schinmeier	German theologian	63
May 4th	Christian Friedrich von Blanckenburg	German literary scholar and writer	52
May 4th	Benjamin Friedrich Koehler	German hymn poet and civil servant	65
5th of May	Franz Traugott Friedrich Wilhelm von Breitenbauch	Prussian President	57
May 6th	Johann Carl Gehler	German doctor and mineralogist in Leipzig	63
May 6th	Adolph Knigge	German writer and educator	43
8th of May	Georg Oswald von Czettritz	Prussian officer, most recently Prussian general of the cavalry	67
8th of May	Amédée Emmanuel François Laharpe	Swiss-French division general	41
12th of May	Johann Peter Uz	German poet	75
17th of May	Jacob Wilhelm Lustig	Dutch composer, organist and music theorist	89
17th of May	Gotthard Friedrich Stender	Kurland Lutheran pastor	81
May 19th	Beda Angehrn	Abbot of the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen	70
May 20th	Gustav Friedrich Grossmann	German actor and drama poet	49
May 21	John Butler	British loyalist colonist in North America
25. May	Conrad Otto Christoph Marschall von Bieberstein	ducal-Württemberg colonel and court marshal	70
25. May	Christoph Otto von Gamm	Danish diplomat, Privy Councilor in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, genealogist	75
May 29th	Ernst Friedrich von Bockelberg	Prussian major general and finally assessor of the 5th Department of the Upper War College as well as general director of the army	68
May	Friedrich Wilhelm Menzel	Saxon civil servant

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Immanuel Carl Diez	German philosopher, theologian and physician	30th
June 5th	Johanne Sophie Herre	Countess of Anhalt and wife of Wilhelm Gustav, Hereditary Prince of Dessau	89
8th June	Felice Giardini	Italian violinist and composer	80
8th June	Joseph Marquard Faithful	German painter	82
8th June	Ignaz Umlauf	Austrian composer, violist and conductor	49
June 11th	Nathaniel Gorham	American politician	58
June 11th	Samuel Whitbread	British politician and entrepreneur	75
June 16	Charles of Saxony	Born Prince of Saxony, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (1758–1763)	62
June 21st	George Frost	American politician	76
June 21st	Richard Gridley	British-American military engineer	86
23rd June	Josepha Maria Anna Antonia Nepomucena from Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg	Abbess in the monasteries Elten and Vreden	64
June 24th	Joseph Maria	Imperial Prince of Fürstenberg	38
25th June	Joseph Maria Hiendl	German Benedictine; Abbot of the Oberalteich monastery	58
25th June	Johann Philipp Siebenkees	German philologist	36
25th June	Johann Sperl	German painter
June 26th	David Rittenhouse	American astronomer and mathematician, first director of the United States Mint	64
June 30th	Abraham Yates	American lawyer and politician

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 4th	Friedrich Ulrich Gross	Russian diplomat	67
5th July	Daniel Carroll	American politician	65
July 6th	Johann Daffinger	Austrian porcelain and colored painter	48
8th of July	Edward Lloyd	American politician	51
8th of July	Adam Naruszewicz	Polish poet	62
10th of July	Joseph Amann	German sculptor	76
July 13th	Christian Gottfried Findeisen	German philologist and philosopher
15th of July	Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani	Italian chess master and chess theorist	76
17th July	Thomas Sanders Dupuis	English pre-classical composer	62
20th of July	John Houstoun	American politician	51
21 July	Robert Burns	Scottish writer and poet	37
21 July	Philipp Carteret	English navigator and explorer	63
30th July	Nicolas de Pigage	French builder	72

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 1st	Robert Pigot	British officer during the American Revolutionary War
4th of August	Hannes Finnsson	Icelandic clergyman, Bishop of Skálholt	57
8th August	Franz Anton Maulbertsch	Austrian baroque painter and fresco artist
August 9	Franz Philipp Adolph Schouwart	German theater actor
17th August	Nicolaas Bondt	Dutch chemist, doctor and botanist	31
17th August	Johann Karl Friedrich von Mengden	royal Prussian lieutenant general, chief of the cuirassier regiment No. 4 and governor of Ragnit	66
August 21	John McKinly	American politician	75
August 24th	Maria Elisabeth Ziesenis	German painter	52
29th August	Johann Karl Volborth	German Lutheran theologian	47
August 30th	Henry Marchant	American politician	55
August	Carl Sello	Royal gardener in Sanssouci, Potsdam	39

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 3	Johann Andreas Herrlein	German painter	72
September 4th	Jakob Danzer	Catholic moral theologian	53
7th of September	Johann Kaspar Schiller	German officer and court gardener of the Duke of Württemberg	72
September 11	Gioacchino Cocchi	Italian composer
September 11	Anna Barbara Gignoux	German calico manufacturer	70
September 11	Johanna Katharina Morgenstern	German writer	48
September 14th	Samuel Green	English organ builder
16th September	Ludwig Friedrich von Beulwitz	German lawyer
September 20th	Juan José Elhuyar	Spanish chemist and mineralogist	42
21st September	François Séverin Marceau	General of the French Republic	27
September 22	Franz Joseph Bergmüller	Art carpenter	63
September 22	Georg Wilhelm Gruber	German composer and violinist	67
September 22	Joseph Lederer	South German monastery musician and composer	63
25th of September	Johann Peter Müller	German-American theologian	86
September 27th	Georg Ludwig von Dalwig	Prussian general	70
September 29th	Henry Hamilton	British general
September 29th	George Raper	British naval officer and illustrator	27

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Johann Philipp Jakob von Horn-Goldschmidt	Vicar General in Cologne	72
October 3	Joseph Lesurques	French businessman, victim of a miscarriage of law
October 7th	Thomas Reid	Scottish philosopher	86
October 7th	Thomas Johann von Thun and Hohenstein	Prince-Bishop of Passau	59
October 10th	Juliane von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	Queen of Denmark	67
October 14th	Johann Heinrich Häßlein	German linguist	59
October 14th	Josef Benedikt von Reinach-Foussemagne	Grand Prior of the German Order of Malta (1777–1796)	85
October, 16th	Viktor Amadeus III.	King of Sardinia-Piedmont and Duke of Savoy	70
October 18	Nathan Brownson	American politician and governor of Georgia	54
October 19th	Emmerich Otto August von Estorff	Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg Lieutenant General	73
October 24th	Ewald Hollebeek	Dutch Reformed theologian	77

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 2	Domenico Pozzi	Ticino history and portrait painter	51
November 9th	Johann Georg hop gardener	German medic
14th November	Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg	Austrian diplomat and imperial advisor; Supreme Court Master of Tuscany; Chief Chamberlain and Minister of the Habsburg Monarchy	73
15th of November	Jean-Baptiste Muiron	French officer	22nd
November 17th	Catherine II	Tsarina of Russia	67
November 17th	Johann Gottfried Sammet	German lawyer and university professor	77
November 18	Georg Lorenz von Kowalski	Prussian Lieutenant General and Chief of Garrison Regiment No. 7	79
November 19th	Marie-Elisabeth von Humboldt	Mother of Alexander von Humboldt and Wilhelm von Humboldt	54
November 19th	Friedrich Moritz von Nostitz-Rieneck	Austrian Field Marshal and President of the Court War Council	68
November 19th	Thorkild Fjeldsted	Icelandic judge and Løgmaður of the Faroe Islands (1769 to 1772)
November 19th	Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath	British nobleman, politician and courtier	62
21st November	Angelo Soliman	African valet

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Jean Charles Abbatucci	French general	25th
6th of December	Johann Carl Friedrich von Dallwitz	Privy councilor, cathedral dean and prelate of the Meissen Monastery	54
10th of December	Israel Jacobs	American politician	70
11th December	Johann Daniel Titius	Prussian astronomer, physicist and biologist	67
12th of December	Friedrich August Cartheuser	German chemist and pharmacist
13th December	Matthias Jakob Adam Steiner	German Lutheran theologian
December 14th	Anton Ignaz Ulbrich	Austrian musician, singer and lyricist
15th December	Heinrich Valentin Becker	German Lutheran theologian and mathematician	64
15th December	Anthony Wayne	American general	51
December 17th	Carl Bernhard von Wolffersdorff	German nobleman, heir, feudal lord and court lord on Altscherbitz, Schkeuditz and Beuditz	70
December 18th	Juliane Charlotte Friederike Grimm	Aunt of the Brothers Grimm	61
19. December	Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Sadunaisky	Russian field marshal	71
20th of December	Johann Georg Krünitz	German lexicographer and encyclopaedist	68
23rd of December	Joseph Melling	Court painter at the Karlsruhe court of the Margraves of Baden	71
25 December	Bengt Anders Euphrasén	Swedish naturalist	40
December 28th	Friedrich Ludwig Karl of Prussia	Prussian prince and major general	23
30th of December	Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne	French composer	45
30th of December	Angelo Querini	Italian politician and diplomat	75

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as
	Detlev von Ahlefeldt	Royal Danish Chamberlain and District Administrator.
	Juan Fermín de Aycinena e Irigoyén	Spanish entrepreneur
	Antoine-François Brisson	French lawyer and encyclopaedist
	Franz Joseph Ess	German porcelain maker
	Joseph IV	Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (Patriarchate of Diyarbakir)
	Franziska Romana Koch	German opera singer, dancer and actress
	Gottlieb August Lange	German bookseller and publisher
	Stephan von Lichnowski	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 23
	Charles Lynch	Plantation owner, politician, and revolutionary in the Virginia colony
	Alexandre-Marie-Léonor de Saint-Mauris de Montbarrey	Prince de Montbarrey
	Gavriil Loginowitsch Pribylov	Russian navigator
	Ignaz Reder	German physicist (Mellrichstadt)
	Shah Ruch	Persian Shah
spring	Cornelius C. Schoonmaker	American politician
	Samuel Anton Wilhelmi	Swiss theologian