Necrology 1801

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1801 . 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 von Fellenberg	Swiss politician and lawyer	64
January 2nd	Joachim Christoph Bracke	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor at the main church of St. Nikolai in Hamburg	62
January 2nd	Johann Caspar Lavater	Swiss pastor, philosopher and writer	59
January 4th	Florian Amand Janowski	Bishop of Tarnów	75
January 4th	Luise Charlotte of Mecklenburg	Duchess of Mecklenburg, hereditary duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg by marriage	21st
6th January	Carl Albert Nauwerck	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and provost	65
January 8th	Johann Rautenstrauch	Austrian satirist	54
January 8th	Johann Wilhelm von Reden	electoral field marshal of Brunswick-Lüneburg	83
January 9th	Carl Christoph von Hoffmann	Prussian privy councilor and chancellor of the University of Halle	65
10. January	Johann Ernst Dietrich von Osen	Prussian major general	77
11th January	Domenico Cimarosa	Italian classical music composer	51
11th January	James Jones	American politician
11th January	Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix de Castries	French military leader and Marshal of France	73
13th January	Christian Ludwig Gerling	German Lutheran theologian, senior pastor in Hamburg	55
January 14th	Anton Estner	German Catholic clergyman and mineralogist
January 14th	George Leonard Staunton	British diplomat, traveler and doctor	63
15. January	Louis Bastoul	French general of the infantry	47
January 17th	Charles-François Frérot d'Abancourt	French military and engineering geographer	44
January 17th	Johann Rudolf Osiander	German Protestant theologian	83
January 20th	Alexander Kölpin	German-Danish (Holstein) field surgeon and surgeon, professor in Copenhagen	69
21th January	Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg	Prussian politician	61
January 24th	Alberich Stingel	Austrian Cistercian and abbot
January 30th	Giuseppe Ceracchi	Italian sculptor	49
January 30th	Karl Ludwig von Troschke	Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 50	82

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Johann Wilhelm Leopold von Borcke	Prussian Major, Chief of Grenadier Battalion No. 3
February 5th	Joseph McDowell Junior	American politician	44
February 6th	Johann Friedrich Lempe	German mathematician, professor of mathematics and physics at the Bergakademie Freiberg	43
February 7th	Daniel Chodowiecki	German engraver, graphic artist and illustrator	74
February 9	Friedrich Konrad Hornemann	Africa explorer	28
February 9	August Joseph Maria von Schaesberg	Nobleman	70
February 9	Solomon Constantine Titius	German medic	34
February 11th	William Hutchinson	British sailor, inventor and author
February 12th	Jean d'Arcet	French chemist
13th February	Robert Motherby	English trader in East Prussia and friend of Immanuel Kant	64
February 17th	Philippine Charlotte of Prussia	Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	84
February 18	Johann Friedrich Grooth	German painter and animal painter	83
19th of February	Georg Werner August Dietrich von Munster	Imperial Count von Meinhövel, Baron von Oer and Schade, ruling class lord at Königsbrück	49
20. February	Melchior Sylvius von Koschenbahr	Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of the Infantry Regiment "von Koschembahr"	75
February 23	Étienne d'Arnal	French engineer and inventor of a steamship	67
February 23	Jean-Henri Voulland	Politician during the French Revolution	49
February 24th	Franz Martin Pelzel	Bohemian historian and Slavist	66
February 28	Carl Wilhelm Muller	Mayor of Leipzig	72
February 28	Joseph Anton Steiner	German Catholic theologian	72
February 28	Friedrich Wilhelm von Wuthenau	Prussian Major General, Chief of Hussar Regiment No. 10	78
February	Gottfried Georgi	German municipal lawyer, Lord Mayor of Stargard in Pomerania	69

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
6th March	Carl Ferdinand von Orgies-Rutenberg	Courland Chancellor and Councilor	59
7th March	Georg Heinrich Macheleid	Thuringian manufacturer	77
9th March	Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann	German doctor	45
9th March	Friedrich Carl Emil von der Lühe	German poet lawyer and botanist, Danish chamberlain and bailiff and imperial councilor in Lower Austria	50
March 13th	Ulrich Karl von Froreich	Prussian major general and chief of the body cuirassier regiment	61
March 13th	Etienne Maynon d'Invault	French lawyer
the 14th of March	Ignacy Krasicki	Polish clergyman and writer	66
the 14th of March	Christian Friedrich Penzel	German cantor and composer	63
March 16	Alexandra Pavlovna Romanova	Member of the House of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp	17th
19th March	Ambrosio O'Higgins	Spanish Governor of Chile, Viceroy of Peru
March 21st	Howsep Arghutjan	Armenian-Russian Archbishop and Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church
March 21st	François Lanusse	French division general	28
March 21st	Noël Lemire	French engraver	76
March 21st	Andrea Lucchesi	Italian organist and composer	59
March 24th	Paul I.	Tsar of Russia	46
25th March	Novalis	German poet of early romanticism	28
25th March	Charles Stuart	British general and politician	48
26th of March	Levin Friedrich von der Schulenburg	Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor and heir, feudal lord and court lord on castle divisions and church divisions as well as small loving care	62
27th of March	Johann Michael Fischer	German sculptor	83
28th March	Ralph Abercromby	British general	66

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Gebhard Friedrich Gottlob von Ingersleben	Prussian major general and most recently chief of Grenadier Guard Battalion No. 6	59
2nd of April	Christian Willibald von Goldacker	Saxon major general	80
2nd of April	Edward Riou	British Royal Navy officer	38
4. April	Martin Gottlieb Klauer	German sculptor	58
April 6th	Johann Földi	Hungarian doctor, linguist and biologist	45
7th of April	Ernest Coquebert de Montbret	French botanist	21st
7th of April	Murad Bey Muhammad	Bey of the Mamluks in Egypt
9th April	Johann Joseph Scheubel III.	Franconian painter, court painter and valet	67
9th April	Paul Weidmann	Austrian author
10th of April	Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo	Swiss architect, church painter and set designer	83
10th of April	Theodor Lingke	German Protestant theologian	80
April 13th	Antoine de Rivarol	French author	47
April 14th	Ibrahim Khan Kalantar	Grand Vizier of Persia
17th April	Johann Kleych	German clergyman, Protestant pastor of Neusalza	77
April 18	Johann Jakob Hill	German engineer	70
April 21	Carl Wilhelm Benno von Heynitz	Saxon mining captain and curator of the Freiberg Mining Academy	62
April 21	Johann Michael Wagner	German organ builder	78
26th of April	Karl Heinrich Heydenreich	German writer and philosopher	37
26th of April	Johann Hinrich Winter	German piano maker	28

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5th of May	Georg Friedrich Christoph von Bardeleben	Royal Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 8	67
5th of May	Ludwig Ernst von Benkendorf	Saxon general of the cavalry	89
May 6th	Johann Ernst Schickler	Merchant, entrepreneur and banker in Prussia	39
May 6th	Franz Troglauer	Robber captain and poacher in Northern Bavaria	46
May 7th	Franz Karl von Kressel von Gualtenberg	bohemian official
May 14th	Johann Ernst Altenburg	German composer and organist	66
May 15	Ludovico Luigi Carlo Maria di Barbiano e Belgiojoso	Italian Habsburg administrative officer and diplomat	73
May 15	Heinrich Wolff	German Protestant theologian	67
17th of May	William Heberden	English medic
May 22	Philipp Ludwig Siegmund Bouton des Granges	Royal Prussian Major General, Chief of the Jäger Corps on foot
May 22	Heinrich Gottfried Reichard	German teacher, philologist, cantor and composer	58
23. May	Johann Heinrich von Carmer	Prussian grand chancellor and judicial reformer	80
May 24th	Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin	Russian field marshal and diplomat	67
May 24th	Adolf Karl Alexander Lothar von Zehmen	Electoral Saxon Privy Council	72
25. May	Ferdinand Kindermann von Schulstein	Bishop of Leitmeritz	60
25. May	Nicolai Jacob Wilse	Danish author	66
30th May	John Millar	Scottish philosopher and historian	65

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Franz Joseph von Wurmbrand-Stuppach	Governor of Carinthia and designated governor of Western Galicia	48
June 4th	Frederick Muhlenberg	American politician; first Speaker of the House of Representatives	51
June 5th	Johann Christian Kerstens	German chemist, physicist, naturalist, alchemist and physician	87
6th of June	John W. Kittera	American politician	48
June 12	David Claparède	Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor	74
14th June	Benedict Arnold	General in the Continental Army of the 13 rebel colonies on the North American east coast	60
14th June	Jakob Albrecht von Birkhahn	Prussian major general, commander of the cuirassier regiment No. 4	68
14th June	Georg Friedrich Veldten	Russian-German architect; Court architect of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great
14th June	Karl von Zeppelin	Württemberg State Minister and Privy Council	33
15th June	Johann Sigismund Friedrich von Khevenhüller-Metsch	imperial diplomat	69
18th of June	Willie Jones	American politician	60
June 24th	Gotthelf Friedrich Oesfeld	German pastor and chronicler	65
June 28th	Martin Johann Schmidt	Austrian Rococo painter	82
June 30th	Caterina Cavalieri	Austrian opera singer, soprano	46

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Oswald Neumann	Abbot of the Hohenfurth Monastery in South Bohemia	50
3rd of July	Johann Nepomuk Wendt	Bohemian oboist and composer	56
July 4th	Johannes Hotze	Swiss country doctor	67
8th of July	Christian Heinrich Hecht	Saxon Evangelical Lutheran pastor and chronicler	66
July 11th	James Brice	American politician	54
17th July	Thérèse Levasseur	Life partner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
July 26th	Georg Heinrich Borowski	German naturalist	55
July 26th	Maximilian Franz of Austria	Austrian Archduke, Bishop of Munster and Archbishop of Cologne	44
29th of July	August Wilhelm Ernesti	German classical philologist	67
30th July	James Gunn	American politician	48

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd August	Nicolaus Dierling	German shipbuilder
5th of August	Anastasius Ludwig Mencken	Prussian administrative reformer	49
6th of August	Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore	British Army officer and politician, Member of the House of Commons	75
August 9	Fedele Tirrito	Italian painter	84
August 11th	Félix María Samaniego	Spanish fable poet	55
12. August	Georg Friedrich Holtzhauer	German lawyer
August 16	Ralph Earl	American painter	50
August 16	Lorenz Johann Daniel Suckow	German natural scientist and full professor of physics and mathematics at the University of Jena	79
18th of August	Johann Dietrich Mellmann	German lawyer and professor at the University of Kiel	54
August 22nd	Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten	last Governor General of the Dutch East Indies	46
August 30th	Peter Mollner	Austrian builder
August 31	Nicola Sala	Italian composer	88

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 6th	Silas Condict	American politician	63
7th of September	Charlotte Amalie of Hessen-Philippsthal	Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
7th of September	Matthew Locke	American politician
7th of September	Antoine de Sartine	French Minister of Police	72
the 9th of September	Christoph von Schmidt-Phiseldeck	German lawyer, archivist and author of publications on Russia	61
the 9th of September	Robert Yates	American lawyer and politician	63
September 10	Johann Jakob Wülfing	Mayor of Elberfeld	69
September 11	Daniel Sprüngli	Swiss ornithologist	80
13.september	Alexander Friedrich Christoph von der Schulenburg	imperial colonel	81
September 14th	Karl Friedrich von Langen	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 17
17th of September	David Jackson	American politician
17th of September	Christopher Sykes, 2nd Baronet	British politician	52
September 18	Friedrich Cerulli	Evangelical Lutheran preacher in Warsaw and Lemberg
21st September	Johann Albert Dinnies	German politician, Mayor of Stralsund (1778–1801)	74
September 23rd	György Pray	Hungarian historian	78
September 24th	Otto Leopold Ehrenreich von Gloeden	Prussian major general	70
September 27th	Friedrich August Thomas von Heymann	French and Prussian major general

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 2nd	August von Veltheim	German mineralogist	60
October 3	Johann Georg unrest	German church painter
8th October	Christian Wilhelm Buettner	German naturalist	85
8th October	Philippe-Henri de Ségur	French general and statesman; (1780–1787) Minister of War; since 1783 Marshal of France	77
October 10th	Carl Wilhelm Ernst Heimbach	German Lutheran theologian and educator	35
October 13th	Richard Pulteney	English doctor and botanist	71
October 13th	Johann Nepomuk van Recum	Entrepreneur, company founder, porcelain and earthenware producer	48
October 19th	Wolfgang Aigner	Bavarian Benedictine and scholar	55
October 19th	August Friedrich Cranz	German writer	64
October 21	Johann Stapfer	Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor	81
23rd October	Johann Gottlieb Naumann	German classical composer	60
October 24th	Karl Albrecht von Frisching	Swiss politician and member of the Executive Council of the Helvetic Republic	66
October 25	Joseph Touchemoulin	French violinist and Rococo composer	74
October 31	Johann Justus Hansen	German organ builder

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 4th	Karl von Grothaus	German officer, military theorist and adventurer	54
November 4th	William Shippen	American politician	89
November 5th	Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev	Armenian-Russian jeweler and patron	65
November 5th	Humphry Marshall	American botanist	79
November 5th	Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer	German anatomist	53
November 5th	Motoori Norinaga	Japanese scholar at the time of the Tokugawa Shogunate	71
November 6th	Christian Gregor	German evangelical clergyman and church musician	78
November 9th	Carl Stamitz	German violinist and composer	56
November 10th	Johann Gottlob Haase	German medic	61
November 10th	Friedrich Zacharias Saltzmann	Royal gardener in Sanssouci, Potsdam	70
November 11th	Giovanni Bernardo Zucchinetti	Italian composer and organist	71
15th of November	Sigmund Freudenberger	Swiss painter	56
15th of November	Maria Klementine of Austria	Archduchess of Austria	24
15th of November	Christian August von Seilern	Austrian diplomat	84
November 16	Mauritius Ribbele	Prince Abbot of the Monastery of St. Blasien (1793–1801)
November 17th	Friedrich August von Erlach	Prussian Lieutenant General and Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 40	80
November 17th	Christoph-Antoine Gerle	French revolutionary and mystic	65
November 18	Pierre Joseph Beauchamp	French diplomat and astronomer	49
November 18	Alexander Bernhard Kölpin	German doctor and botanist	62
21st November	Diepold Ziegler	German religious and writer	73
November 24th	Philip Hamilton	eldest son of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton	19th
November 24th	Franz Moritz von Lacy	Austrian general	76
November 26th	Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu	French geologist and mineralogist	51
November 27th	Pierre-Paul Le Mercier de La Rivière	French economist	82
November 29th	Ann Street Barry	English singer, dancer and stage actress
30th of November	Paul Jacob Förtsch	German Lutheran theologian, general superintendent	79

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of December	Christian Gottfried von Pentz	royal Danish general of infantry	85
December 4th	Johann David Hartmann	German pedagogue, philologist and poet	40
December 8th	Maria Josefa Carmela of Spain	Princess of Naples and Sicily, Infanta of Spain	57
9th of December	Carlo Monza	Italian classical composer
9th of December	Darja Nikolaevna Saltykova	Russian landlady and serial killer
10th of December	Heinrich Wilhelm of Anhalt	Prussian general	66
13th December	Karl Wilhelm von Brausen	Prussian Major General and Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 8
15th December	Francesco Alberti di Villanova	Italian literary man, Romanist, Italianist, translator and lexicographer	64
December 16	Wolfgang Hagenauer	German architect	75
December 16	Karl Ludwig of Baden	Hereditary Prince of Baden	46
December 17th	Karl Franz von Irwing	German senior consistory advisor and philosophical writer	73
19. December	Francesco Saverio de Zelada	Italian cardinal	84
20th of December	Ferdinand Fleck	German actor	44
21st December	Giacomo Maria Brignole	last doge of the Republic of Genoa	77
21st December	Esdras Heinrich Mutzenbecher	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and general superintendent in Oldenburg	57
December 26th	Christian Friderich Knuth	Danish military and landlord	73
December 27th	Johann August Eyserbeck	German court gardener	39
30th of December	Friedrich August von Nauendorf	Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal	52
30th of December	Filippo Maria Visconti	Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Milan	80
December 31	Giuseppe Maria Capece Zurlo	Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal	90

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Ulrica Arfvidsson	Clairvoyant and occultist
	John Barber	English inventor
	Honoré Blanc	French gunsmith
	Fortunatus Cavallo	German Kapellmeister and composer
	James Hemings	Slave and head chef to Thomas Jefferson
	Ludwig Daniel Heyd	Hessian court sculptor
	Johann Christoph Keller	German builder
	Antoine-Claude-Pierre Masson de La Motte-Conflans	French printer and encyclopaedist
	Pablo Minguet e Yrol	Spanish writer
	Wilhelm Jeremias Müller	German architect
	Ozawa Roan	Japanese poet
	Adolph Lobegott Peck	German pastor