Necrology 1800

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1800 . 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 2nd	Christian Friedrich Helwing	German bookseller and mayor	74
January 3rd	Karl Wilhelm von Finckenstein	Prussian Minister	85
January 4th	Giovanni Battista Mancini	Italian soprano, singing teacher and writer	86
January 5th	Ferdinand Woldrzich von Ehrenfreund	Bohemian lawyer and university professor	62
6th January	William Brownrigg	British chemist and doctor	88
6th January	Friedrich Adolf Riedesel	Hessian general in the American War of Independence	61
January 8th	Hermann Johann von Benckendorff	Major in the Imperial Russian Army, District Marshal	48
January 9th	Jean-Étienne Championnet	French general	37
January 9th	Martin Ehlers	German reform pedagogue and professor of philosophy	68
10. January	Johan Wikmansson	Swedish composer	46
11th January	Jacob von Döhren	German silhouette cutter, illustrator and writer
January 12th	Johann Christoph Vielstich	German faience manufacturer
13th January	Peter of Biron	Imperial Count and Duke of Courland and Semgallia and Duke of Sagan	75
13th January	Dempsey Burges	American politician
13th January	Peter Christoph von Zitzewitz	Prussian officer, most recently major general	78
January 14th	Upton Sheredine	American politician
January 14th	Michael Johann Friedrich Wiedeburg	German organist, music teacher and theologian	79
January 16	Margaret Corbin	American Revolutionary War soldier	48
January 16	Johann Christian Wiegleb	German naturalist and pharmacist	67
January 17th	Akera Kanko	Japanese lyric poet	59
January 17th	Maximilian Christoph von Rodt	Bishop of Constance (1775–1799)	82
January 20th	Thomas Mifflin	American politician and major general in the Revolutionary War	56
January 20th	Johannes Mitterreither	Austrian organ builder
21th January	Jean-Baptiste Le Roy	French polymath, director of the Académie royale des sciences and a major contributor to the Encyclopédie
22nd of January	George Steevens	English scholar and editor of a historical complete edition of Shakespeare	63
January 23	Edward Rutledge	British-American politician and signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence	50
January 23	Johann Gottlieb Stephanie	Austrian actor, playwright and opera librettist	58
January 26th	Stephan Werner von Dewitz	Mecklenburg-Strelitzer and Mecklenburg-Schwerin Privy Council President	73
January 26th	Justus Friedrich Froriep	German Lutheran theologian and orientalist	54
January 26th	Felix Matthäus Stupan von Ehrenstein	Austrian lawyer
January 26th	Johann Kaspar Thürriegel	Prussian spy and colonist recruiter in the service of the Spanish crown	77
January 27th	John Chapman	American politician	59

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Joachim Gottlieb Schwabe	German-Baltic pastor and calendar writer	45
February 2nd	Pieter Luchtmans	Dutch medic	66
3 February	Johann Karl August von Schultz	Prussian major general and lastly brigadier of the South Prussian Fusilier Brigade	62
February 4th	Charlotte Sophie Bentinck	German nobles	84
February 4th	Franziska Lang	German soubrette, dancer and theater actress	53
February 6th	Peter Bondam	Dutch historian and lawyer	72
February 8	Ludwig von Terzi	Imperial-Royal Feldzeugmeister, travel companion of Emperor Joseph II.	69
February 10th	Vincenzo Maria Altieri	Cardinal of the Catholic Church	75
February 16	Johann Daniel Ludwig von Reppert	Prussian district administrator	75
February 17th	Johann Werner Streithorst	Protestant theologian and writer	53
February 18	Jean-Baptiste Perrée	French rear admiral	38
19th of February	Jeremiah Crabb	American politician
19th of February	Johann Eberhard Osiander	German Protestant theologian	49
20. February	Leopold Christoph von Schallenberg	Austrian nobleman	87
21st of February	Christian Friedrich Schröder	German writer	49
February 22	Alexander Franz Joseph von Engel	Bishop of Leoben	78
February 22	Even hammer	Norwegian economist	67
February 22	Friedrich Ludwig Hess	Swiss military person	78
27th of February	Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon	Princess of France and Navarre	67
27th of February	Robert Brooke	Virginia politicians and freemasons

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3 March	Johann Peter Berg	German Protestant theologian and orientalist	62
4th of March	Johann Friedrich von Kageneck	Austrian diplomat	58
7th March	Philipp of Gemmingen	Nassau-Usingenscher government councilor and Saxon-Gothaian legation councilor at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar and comitial envoy of several rulers at the Reichstag in Regensburg	62
8th of March	Carl Christoph Besser	German architect and builder
9th March	Dominique Della-Maria	French composer	30th
9th March	Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff	German architect and architectural theorist	63
March 11	Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching	German lexicographer	37
the 14th of March	Carl Schütz	Austrian engraver	54
17. March	Joachim Christian von Blumenthal	Prussian politician, Minister at the General Directorate	79
19th March	Joseph de Guignes	French orientalist	78
March, 20th	Thank God Nathanael Fischer	German pedagogue and theologian	52
March, 20th	Clemens August von Ketteler	Canon in Osnabrück, Worms and Münster as well as secular dignitaries in the bishopric of Münster	79
March 21st	William Blount	American politician	50
March 23	Johann Adam Wening	German pastor and writer
25th March	Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim	German dendrologist	51
26th of March	Marc-René de Montalembert	French engineer for weapons technology and fortress construction	85
March 29	Johann Anton Renner	Aargau politician	56
March	Samuel Wharton	American politician	67

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4. April	Karl Friedrich Ernst Truchseß von Waldburg	Prussian Major General, Chief of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 4	56
April 8th	Andrea Gioannetti	Archbishop of Bologna and Cardinal	78
9th April	Johann Philipp Geigel	German builder at the transition from baroque to classicism
April 19th	Jean-Antoine Marbot	French infantry division general and politician, member of the National Assembly	45
20th of April	Peleg Sprague	American politician	43
April 21	Diederich Georg Babst	German writer	58
April 21	Johan August Meijerfeldt the Younger	Swedish field marshal	74
April 21	Wilhelm Alexander Schwollmann	German Protestant theologian	66
April 22	Johann Ludwig Ambühl	Swiss civil servant and writer	50
April 22	Karl Wilhelm Hennert	German forester	61
April 23	Abraham Gagnebin	Swiss physicians and natural scientists	92
April 25	Ezekiel Cornell	American politician
April 25	William Cowper	English poet	68
April 28	Yevstignei Ipatowitsch Fomin	Russian composer	38
April 28	Jan Karel Killar	Bohemian brewer as well as author and patriot
April 29	Johann Christian Fischer	German composer and oboist

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt	Princess of Prussia, by marriage Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel	54
May 4th	Christine Boyer	first wife of Lucien Bonaparte, Napoléon's youngest brother	26th
May 4th	Johann Rudolf Fischer	Swiss Protestant clergyman	27
May 7th	Niccolò Piccinni	Italian classical composer	72
May 7th	Johann Rudolf Fischer	Swiss Protestant clergyman	27
10th of May	Jacques Mallet-du-Pan	French monarchist journalist and publicist	50
May 15	Friedrich Wilhelm Eichholz	German song poet and writer	80
17th of May	Christoph Girtanner	Swiss doctor, chemist and political-historical writer	39
May 18	Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suvorov	Russian generalissimo	69
May 20th	Moses Gill	American politician	66
May 21	Carl August Ehrensvärd	Swedish draftsman, architect and art theorist	55
May 21	Manuel de Escandón	Governor of Nuevo Santander
23. May	Henry Cort	English metallurgist and entrepreneur; Inventor of the puddling process
May 24th	Johann Christian Kestner	German lawyer and archivist, husband of Charlotte Buff	58
May 26	Curt Heinrich Gottlieb von Arnim	Prussian major	64
May 26	Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta	Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain	70
31. May	Sophie Friederike von Thurn and Taxis	German nobles from the house of Thurn and Taxis	41
May	Johann Nepomuk Maag	Engraver and draftsman in Munich

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Emil Philipp Friedrich von Ruits	Prussian lieutenant general, commandant of Glogau
June 5th	Karl Wilhelm von Byern	Prussian Major General, Chief of Cuirassier Regiment No. 6	63
June 5th	Friedrich von Kielmansegg	Jurist, Drost in the service of the Electorate of Hanover	71
8th June	Wilhelm Haas-Münch	Swiss inventor of an improved printing press	58
June 10th	Peter Engelbert Rübel	Mayor of Elberfeld	63
June 10th	Johann Abraham Peter Schulz	German musician and composer	53
June 11th	Maria Margarethe Danzi	German soprano and composer
June 12	Johann Caspar Rommel	German master organ builder	78
June 13th	Aegidius Gillissen	Dutch Reformed theologian	87
14th June	Louis Charles Antoine Desaix	French general	31
14th June	Jean-Baptiste Kléber	French general	47
17th of June	Jacob Abraham	German medalist
18th of June	Johann Christian Dieterich	German bookseller and publisher	78
20th June	Karl Adolf August von Eben and Brunnen	Prussian general and commander of the 2nd hussar regiment	66
20th June	Abraham Gotthelf Kästner	German mathematician and poet	80
June 22	Johann Balthasar Hundeshagen	German lawyer and historian	66
June 22	Hans Ernst Dietrich from Werder	Prussian civil servant, minister at the General Directorate	59
June 24th	Charles Stewart	American politician
June 26th	Johann Jakob Haltiner	Swiss builder
June 27th	Théophile Malo Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne	French officer and prehistorian	56
June 27th	William Cumberland Cruikshank	British chemist and anatomist
June 28th	Henry XI.	Prince Reuss of Greiz	78
June 28th	Jeongjo	22. King of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea	47
June 30th	Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney	British Home Secretary and namesake for Sydney	67

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Jean Claude Eléonore Le Michaud d'Arçon	French general and engineer	66
2nd July	Victor Louis	French architect
July 6th	Ernst Sylvius von Prittwitz	Prussian lieutenant general and adjutant general
10th of July	Arnold Nicolai Aasheim	Norwegian doctor and physicist	51
July 12	Balthasar (II.) Freiherr von Campenhausen	Russian Senator, Privy Councilor and Civil Governor of Livonia	54
July 13th	Heinrich Sebastian von Reppert	Prussian lieutenant general, chief of the body carbine regiment	82
July 14th	Lorenzo Mascheroni	Italian mathematician	50
July 18th	John Rutledge	American politician and Chief Justice of the United States	60
July 19	José de Rezabal y Ugarte	Governor of Chile
22nd of July	Christian Heinrich Schmid	German legal scholar, literary scholar and rhetorician	53
24th July	Karl Joseph from Hadik-Futak	Austrian field marshal lieutenant and troop leader in the coalition wars	43
July 28th	David Mathews	North American attorney, Mayor of New York
30th July	Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla	Italian doctor and military surgeon	72

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 1st	Franz Karl Joseph Anton von Hompesch zu Bolheim	Bavarian Finance Minister	65
August 1st	Johann Horn	Knight of the Bavarian Bravery Medal
August 1st	Bernhard Friedrich Mönnich	German mathematician and scientist	59
August 1st	Christian Zwilling	German Protestant theologian and pastor
August 2nd	Philipp Fischer	German physician, personal physician to the Elector of Bavaria	56
3rd August	Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch	German musician	63
3rd August	Friedrich Gilly	German architect and builder	28
5th of August	Johann Georg Büsch	German educator and journalist	72
5th of August	Otto Bernhard of Verdion	German court official, writer and manor owner
August 7th	Karl Anton von Martini	Austrian lawyer and legal philosopher	73
August 7th	Balthasar Philipp Rosenmeyer	German businessman and politician	86
August 11th	Heinrich Christoph Albrecht	Philologist and German Jacobin
12. August	Anne-Catherine de Ligniville Helvétius	French salonnière of the Enlightenment	78
15th of August	Alexander August Eberhard von der Lochau	Prussian major general and chief of the 4th artillery regiment
August 16	Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle	French botanist	54
18th of August	Arnulphe d'Aumont	French physician, contributor to the Encyclopédie
August 19th	Zacharias Gerhard Diederich Baedeker	German publisher bookseller	49
20th of August	Alexei Wassiljewitsch Naryschkin	Russian statesman, author and military person	58
August 21	Jacob Albrecht von Sienen	German Mayor	76
August 22nd	Nathaniel Freeman Junior	American politician	34
August 24th	Rawlins Lowndes	American politician	79
August 25	Elizabeth Montagu	English saloon lady, writer and patron	81
26th of August	Ernst Friedrich	Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld	76
26th of August	Hirschel Levin	Grand Rabbis of the United Kingdom and Berlin, as well as Rabbis of Halberstadt and Mannheim
26th of August	Johann Gottlieb Wilhelm von Manstein	Prussian lieutenant general	70
August 27	Peter Aloysius Marquis d'Agdollo	Saxon court master
August 28th	Sigmund von Renner	imperial-royal general of Swiss origin	73
August 31	John Blair Junior	American politician and lawyer

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 2nd	Johann Gottfried Geissler	Rector of the Princely School Pforta	74
September 4th	Ignatius Michael III. Yarweh	Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch (1783–1800)	70
September 8th	Pierre Gaviniès	French violinist and composer	72
the 9th of September	Immanuel Friedrich Gregorius	German Lutheran theologian and historian	70
September 10	Nicolaus Anton Johann Kirchhof	German businessman, scholar and senator in Hamburg	75
September 10	Johann David Schoepf	German botanist, zoologist and naturalist	48
September 10	Johann Christoph von Woellner	Prussian statesman and pastor	68
September 11	Samuel Werenfels	Swiss baroque architect	80
17th of September	Nathan Adler	Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main	58
17th of September	Johann Albrecht Euler	Astronomer and mathematician	65
September 19th	Sophie Brentano	Sister of Clemens Brentano	24
September 19th	François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais	French economist, encyclopaedist	77
September 19th	Johann Gottfried Koehler	German astronomer	54
September 20th	Johann Ludwig Huber	German politician, lawyer, poet, theologian and philosopher	77
September 24th	Johann Heinrich Ludwig Meierotto	German geographer and educator	58
September 26th	William Billings	American composer	53
September 27th	William Gibbons	American politician	74
September 27th	Hyacinthe Jadin	French composer and professor	24
September 28th	Johann Gottlob Benjamin Arrow	German lawyer and writer	67
September 29th	Michael Denis	Austrian Jesuit, author, translator, librarian and zoologist	71
30. September	Johann Michael Adelpodinger	Austrian architect

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Jakob Friedrich Grundmann	German woodwind instrument maker
October 2nd	Johannes Frey	Swiss theologian	57
October 3	Joachim Friedrich Lehzen	German pastor and preacher	65
4th of October	Johann Hermann	French doctor, naturalist, zoologist and author	61
4th of October	Yoshio Kosaku	Japanese interpreter
October 6th	Ulysses von Salis-Marschlins	Graubünden politicians and entrepreneurs	72
October 7th	Gabriel Prosser	Leader of a slave rebellion in Virginia
8th October	Charles-Georges Fenouillot de Falbaire de Quingey	French author, dramaturge and encyclopaedist	73
8th October	Salavat Yulayev	Bashkir freedom fighter and poet, national hero of Bashkortostan	48
October 10th	Johann Anton Roetig	German watchmaker	50
October 12th	Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz	German theologian and natural scientist	70
October, 16th	Benjamin Huntington	American politician	64
October 19th	Renatus Karl von Senckenberg	German lawyer, writer and founder	49
October 25	Johann Josef Batlogg	Austrian Landammann and military	49
October 25	Friedrich Wilhelm von Ferber	Electoral statesman, court and judicial councilor	68
October 25	Johann Ehrenfried Pohl	German botanist and pathologist	54
October 27	Itō Jakuchū	Japanese painter	84
October 27	Ernst Albrecht von Köckritz	Prussian major general and commander of the "von Budberg" infantry regiment
28th of October	Artemas Ward	American major general in the Revolutionary War and politician	72
October 29th	Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper	German architect	67
30th of October	Christian August von der Marwitz	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 38	64
October	Adam Stanisław Krasiński	Polish clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop, nobleman and crown secretary	86

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 1st	Friedrich Adolf van der Marck	German law professor	81
November 2	Peter Ewald von Malschitzky	Owner of the cuirassier regiment K 2, Prussian major general, 1792 knight of the order Pour le Mérite	69
November 2	Johann David Späth	German organ builder	74
November 5th	Jesse Ramsden	English optician and manufacturer of mathematical and optical instruments	65
November 9th	Ludwig Fronhofer	German educator and writer	54
November 9th	Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia	French author and encyclopedist	65
November 9th	Christian Gottlieb Selle	German medic and philosopher	52
November 12th	Ludwig Karl von Kalckstein	Prussian Field Marshal General, Governor of Magdeburg	75
November 13th	Nicolas Custer	Luxembourg Roman Catholic priest
14th November	François-Claude-Amour de Bouillé	French general	60
14th November	Georg Ludwig Riedesel zu Eisenbach	Officer, 24th Hessian Hereditary Marshal	75
November 17th	Ulrich von Raven	Prussian officer and holder of the order Pour le Mérite	33
20th November	Albrecht Ehrentreich von Rohr	Prussian major general, inspector of the West Prussian infantry regiment, chief of infantry regiment No. 54, Drost von Limberg and Hausberge	79
22nd of November	Salomon Maimon	Philosopher and Jewish enlightener
22nd of November	Leopold von Clary and Aldringen	Bohemian-Austrian Minister of Justice	64
November 28th	Adrianus Broekman	old Catholic bishop of Haarlem	76
November 28th	Sebastian Mutschelle	German theologian	51
November 29th	Gian Battista Frizzoni	Swiss reformed pastor and hymn poet	73
30th of November	Matthew Robinson-Morris, 2nd Baron Rokeby	English nobleman and eccentric	87

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Johann Ludwig von Eckardt	German legal scholar	62
December 5th	Jean Baptiste Audebert	French naturalist and painter	41
6th of December	Pierre Jean-Baptiste Legrand d'Aussy	French historian, Romanist and Medievalist	63
December 7th	Wilhelm zu Innhausen and Knyphausen	General of the Hessian auxiliaries in the North American War of Independence	84
9th of December	Georg Brockmann	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian	77
9th of December	Bernhard Joseph Schleiss	Electoral Palatinate doctor and freemason	69
10th of December	Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, prince de Guéméné	Duc de Montbazon and Prince de Guéméné	74
12th of December	Carl Wilhelm von Bessel	Prussian chamber official	73
13th December	Johann Christoph Albers	German businessman	59
December 16	Peter Mayer	German draftsman, engraver and painter
December 17th	William Peery	American politician
19. December	Georg Peter Weimar	German cantor and composer	66
20th of December	Joseph Leonhard Banniza from Bazan	Austrian legal scholar	67
21st December	Thomas Hartley	American politician	52
24th of December	Franz Ludwig Wimpffen	Wuerttemberg officer
December 26th	John Patten	American politician	54
December 26th	Mary Robinson	English writer
December 26th	Johann Goswin Aries	Palatinate-Bavarian civil servant, historian, topographer, author	66
December 27th	Hugh Blair	Scottish clergyman, writer and rhetorician	82
December 27th	Johann Christian Wilhelm Juncker	German physician and university professor	39
December 27th	Johann Heinrich Röding	German educator and poet	68
December 29th	Karl Benjamin Acoluth	German lawyer and writer	74
30th of December	Johann Joseph Becker	Catholic clergyman
30th of December	Thomas Dimsdale	British medic and pioneer in the field of smallpox vaccination

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Johann Christian Albrecht	German music writer and Protestant pastor
	Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet	Mistress of the French King Louis XV.
	Karl Thomas Franz von Breuner	Austrian nobleman, President of the Inner Austrian Government, President of Appeal of Inner Austria and Governor of Styria
	James Cox	English watchmaker
	George Dixon	English navigator and explorer
	Louis Granier	French violinist and composer
	Rudolph Adam von Hessler	Official governor of the Erzgebirge district in the Electorate of Saxony and aristocratic district tax collector
	Joseph Ingraham	American captain and explorer
	François Dominique Lesné	French medic and surgeon
	Ignaz Lumberger	German local politician
	Georg Christian Luther	Silesian-Estonian entrepreneur
	Robert-André Andréa de Nerciat	French writer, soldier, architect and librarian
	Johann Carl Adolf von Nostitz	German soldier and manor owner
	David Ross	American politician
	Linus Seif	German painter
	Friedrich Sigmund von Sommerfeld	Prussian colonel and head of the regiment
	August Wilhelm Bernhardt von Uechtritz	Electoral Saxon officer, aristocratic genealogist and author
	Johann Baptist White	German Benedictines, priests, teachers and writers