Nekrolog 1796
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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | receipt |
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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 | Age | receipt |
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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 |