Necrology 1802

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1802 . 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	Samuel Turner	Diplomat and officer in the British East India Company	42
January 3rd	Gottfried August Meerheim	German literary scholar	48
January 4th	Johann Georg Stuwer	Austrian entertainer	69
January 9th	Julius Hieronymus Zollikofer	Swiss Mayor	88
January 12th	Josef Ignaz von Kleinmayr	Josephinist publicist	56
15. January	Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korckwitz	Prussian civil servant	57
January 16	Bengt Gabriel von Spången	Swedish nobleman and colonel in the artillery	73
January 18th	Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix	French astronomer	83
January 24th	Joseph-Niklas zu Windisch-Graetz	Austrian treasurer of Archduchess Marie Antoinette	57
January 26th	Christian Gottlob Klemm	German playwright and editor of weeklies	65
January 26th	Johann Peter Nesemann	German-Swiss teacher
January 27th	Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg	German composer and Kapellmeister	42
January 30th	Johann Nepomuk Mießl	Bohemian upper tenth and mountain court owner	69
31 January	Emmerich Daniel Bogdanich	Mathematician, astronomer, geodesist and cartographer	39

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 2nd	Christian Gottlieb Hommel	German legal scholar	64
3 February	Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes	Spanish statesman, man of letters, lawyer, educator and translator	78
February 6th	Franz Nikolaus Rolffsen	German engraver
February 8	Friedrich Karl von Langelair	Prussian major general, deputy commandant of Berlin	65
February 8	Johann Georg Wieland	German plasterer and classicist sculptor
February 9	Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves	British admiral in the American War of Independence and Revolutionary Wars and Governor of Newfoundland	76
February 9	Karl Joseph Merz from Quirnheim	Imperial Baron and last owner of Baron Bosweiler and Quirnheim	54
February 10th	Samuel Phillips Junior	American politician	50
February 15th	Carl Henrich Dreyer	German legal scholar and Lübeck politician	78
February 15th	Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski	Polish nobleman and politician
19th of February	Franz Joseph Bob	Austrian cinematographer and philologist	68
21st of February	René Maugé	French zoologist and animal collector
February 23	Johann Jacob Prehn	German administrative lawyer and university professor	55
February 25	Charles O'Hara	British military
February 26th	Johann August von Ponickau	Library founder and Saxon war council	83
27th of February	Johann Friedrich von Brehmer	Prussian major general and chief of infantry regiment No. 9	64
27th of February	Kimura Kenkadō	Japanese painter	65
February 28	Christoph Gottfried Nicolaus Gesterding	German lawyer and historian	61
February	John M. Vining	American politician (Federalist Party)	43

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd March	Matthäus von Vieregg	Bavarian statesman
3 March	Robert Bad	Abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Salem	61
4th of March	Nicholas Sebastian Simon	French lawyer and prefect in the Département de la Roer	52
4th of March	John Sitgreaves	American lawyer and politician
5. March	Noah-Haium-Hirsch Berlin	German rabbi and author	68
7th March	Franz Josef Gassmann	Swiss printer, bookseller, newspaper founder and editor	46
7th March	Marie Clothilde of France	French princess, Queen of Sardinia-Piedmont by marriage	42
7th March	Johann Georg Witthauer	German church musician and composer	51
March 11	Pedro de Alberni	Spanish soldier	55
March 11	Friedrich of Hessen-Darmstadt	Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt	42
March 11	Narsworthy Hunter	American politician
17. March	Ernst Friedrich Carl von Hanstein	Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 51	67
17. March	Andreas Lamey	Historian and librarian	75
March 18th	Hermann Nikolaus Funck	German lawyer
March 18th	Jean Baptiste Lepaute	French watchmaker	75
March 18th	Jakob Wortmann	Mayor of Elberfeld	70
March 18th	Johann Andreas Ziegler	German-Austrian landscape painter	52
19th March	Isidore Bertheaume	French violinist and composer
March, 20th	Friedrich Ludwig von Botzheim	Statesman and political writer
March 30	Aedanus Burke	American politician	58

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Joseph Siffred Duplessis	French painter	76
3rd of April	Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch from Buschenau	German medic and astronomer	70
4. April	Otto Heinrich von Laxdehnen	Prussian major general, chief of the fusilier regiment No. 51, governor of Zinna and Rügenwalde
7th of April	Anton Sebastian von Struve	Diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire	73
7th of April	Jean-Louis Wagnière	Secretary to the French philosopher Voltaire	62
11 April	Juraj Papánek	Slovak Catholic clergyman and historian	64
April 13th	Johann Joseph Imhoff	German sculptor	63
April 18	Erasmus Darwin	British poet, botanist and physician	70
April 18	Ivan Ivanovich Lepyochin	Russian doctor, botanist, zoologist and explorer	61
20th of April	Elisha Brown	British politician	84
April 23	Lazaros the Bulgarian	Martyrs and saints of the Orthodox Church
April 24th	Sámuel Gyulay	Austrian officer and field marshal lieutenant
April 24th	Johann August Schlettwein	German economist, representative of physiocratism	70
26th of April	Leonhard Bayrer	German Jesuit, moral theologian and spiritual writer	52
26th of April	Heinrich XXX.	Count Reuss of Gera	75
26th of April	Franz Samuel Wild	Swiss geologist and mineralogist	58
April 28	Richard Howell	American politician	47
April 28	Jean Antoine Rossignol	General during the French Revolution	42
April 29	Friedrich Leopold von Bosse	Prussian lieutenant general, chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 11 and governor of Draheim	82
April 29	Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller	Mother of Friedrich Schiller	69

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	Karl Daniel Freyberg	German historian and physicist	73
2.May	Josef Kramolín	Baroque painter	72
2.May	Carl Traugott Gottlob Schönemann	German lawyer, philologist and diplomat; University professor in Göttingen	36
May 4th	Friedrich Ernst von Bülow	German officer, landowner and landscape director	65
May 4th	Christopher Reinhold von Nolcken	Russian general and governor	73
May 6th	John Lowell	American lawyer and politician	58
8th of May	William Gordon	American politician	39
May 11th	Jehu Davis	American politician
May 13th	Justus Friedrich Zehelein	German writer, composer, judicial officer and etcher	42
May 14th	Joachim Otto Friedrich von Lepel	Hessian colonel sergeant in the bodyguard on horseback and, most recently, Prince-Isenburg-Birstein Chamber President	62
May 15	Lebrecht brook tail	German general, writer and translator	72
May 15	Friedrich Anton von Heynitz	Prussian politician and mining reformer	77
17th of May	Sophie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld	78
17th of May	Georg Andreas Steltzner	German mountain official	77
17th of May	Frederick Stuart	British politician, member of the House of Commons	50
May 22	Martha Washington	first American first lady	70
23. May	Domenico Ercole del Rio	Italian chess player
25. May	George Fordyce	British doctor	65
May 27th	Melchior Heinrich von Breitenbauch	Electoral Saxon court marshal at the Dresden court	77
May 29th	Jean Hardy	French division general	39
30th May	Johann Josef Leitenberger	Bohemian textile entrepreneur	72
30th May	Karl Traugott Thieme	German popular enlightener	57
May	Manuel Caetano de Sousa	Portuguese Baroque architect	60

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Pemulwuy	Elder and warrior of the Darug Aboriginal people
2th of June	Alexander von Budberg	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 9	85
2th of June	Thomas Fyshe Palmer	English Unitarian and political reformer	54
3rd of June	Joseph Adam of Arco	Bishop of Königgrätz, Prince-Bishop of Seckau	69
June 5th	Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti	German classical scholar
June 5th	Samuel Lyman	American politician	53
June 5th	Joseph Jacob Count Murray de Melgum	Habsburg military member	83
8th June	Paul the Elder Child	Swiss reformed pastor	68
June 12	Friedrich Ewald von Fircks	Polish district administrator and landowner from Courland	68
June 12	Johann Ernst Wichmann	German medic	62
14th June	Burckhard Alexius Constantin von Krüdener	Russian diplomat	55
14th June	Friedrich August Mehlen	German legal scholar	51
June 16	Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorff	German botanist, forest scientist and Prussian forest official	55
18th of June	Theodosius Christian by Frantzius	German wholesale merchant and shipowner	67
June 22	Susette Gontard	German banker's wife, great love of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin
June 24th	Johann Friedrich Esaias Steffens	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian	86
June 26th	Friedrich Christian Lorenz Schweigger	German Protestant theologian	58
June 27th	Possidius tremor	Member of the Augustinian order, author, teacher at the Münnerstadt monastery	79
June 28th	Johann Jakob Engel	German writer and literary theorist	60
June 30th	Gaetano Gandolfi	Italian painter and engraver	67

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Carlo Livizzani	Italian cardinal of the Roman Church	79
July 1	Philipp August Wilhelm von Werther	Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 6	73
July 6th	Daniel Morgan	American pioneer, American Revolutionary War officer, and federal politician (Federal Party)
8th of July	Johann Anton von Dessaunieres	Royal Prussian major general and most recently in command of Glogau	70
July 9	Christoph Friedrich Neander	Protestant pastor and hymn poet	78
10th of July	Gregers Kristian von Haxthausen	Danish nobleman and minister	70
July 12	Johan Heinrich Knuth	Danish landowner, chamberlain and privy councilor	55
15th of July	Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron	French politician of the French Revolution	47
July 18th	Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn	Bohemian draftsman, painter, theorist and art historian	63
July 18th	Heinrich Keller	Swiss pastor and deaf teacher	74
22nd of July	Xavier Bichat	French anatomist and physiologist
22nd of July	François-Henri d'Harcourt	French general, duke and peer of France	76
July 23	Charles Johnson	American politician
July 23	Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva y Álvarez de Toledo	Duchess of Alba	40
July 23	Jakob von Zülow	royal Prussian major general	73
24th July	Joseph Ducreux	French portrait painter	67
July 25th	Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal	Elector and Archbishop of Mainz	83
July 26th	Christian Ludwig Seehas	German painter, later court painter to the Dukes of Mecklenburg	48
July 28th	Christian Friedrich von Knebel	Prussian major general	59
July 28th	Giuseppe Sarti	Italian composer
30th July	Franciscus Kareu	Belarusian superior general of the Societas Jesu (Jesuit order)	70

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 1st	Johann Bernhard Keup	German medic
August 2nd	Kastulus Wohlmuth	Premonstratensian monk, abbot, university professor	53
3rd August	Carl Adolph von Brühl	Saxon and Prussian cavalry general, educator Friedrich Wilhelm III. and from his siblings	60
3rd August	Heinrich of Prussia	Son of King Friedrich Wilhelm I (Prussia), general	76
3rd August	Johann Daniel Overbeck	Protestant theologian and rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck	87
5th of August	Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor	British nobleman and politician	71
August 7th	John Andrew Graefer	English botanist and garden designer of German (supposedly Austrian) origin
8th August	Franz Xaver Debler	Cleric, historian and genealogist as well as chronicler of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd	76
August 9	Karl Michael von Pauerspach	Theater director zu Eszterház, writer, lawyer and post commissioner in Regensburg and Nuremberg
August 10	Antonio Lolli	Italian violinist and composer
12. August	Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil	Roman Catholic clergyman, cardinal	84
13 August	Peter Vitus by Quosdanovich	Austrian general	64
13 August	Ernst Balthasar Siegmund von Taubadel	Prussian major general; Commander of Gdansk	78
15th of August	Karagoromo Kisshu	Japanese poet	59
17th August	Wilhelm von Schwerin	Prussian lieutenant general, head of regiment and governor von Thorn	62
20th of August	Karl August von Elster	Prussian major general and most recently in command of Cosel	67
August 22nd	Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus	German physicist
August 22nd	Michael Conrad Curtius	German philologist, historian and university professor	77
August 22nd	George Thomas	British mercenary and adventurer
August 23	Corona Schröter	German singer (soprano) and actress	51
August 25	Beat Ludwig Walthard	Swiss publisher	58
26th of August	Albrecht of Anhalt	Prussian major general	67
August 28th	Materno Bossi	Italian plasterer	65
August 28th	Karl Ehregott Andreas Mangelsdorf	German pedagogue, rhetorician and historian	54
August 28th	Ernst Anton Nicolai	German medic	79

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 3	Edward hand	American politician	57
September 6th	Richard Spaight senior	American politician	44
7th of September	José Martín de Aldehuela	Spanish architect and builder	72
September 10	Jakob Sarasin	Basel silk ribbon manufacturer and representative of the Enlightenment	60
September 11	Franz Xaver Kefer	German school founder
12th September	Christian Friedrich August von Moller	Prussian major general, assessor of the 3rd department of the Oberkriegskolleg	68
16th September	Ludwig of Anhalt-Koethen	Prince of Anhalt-Koethen	23
17th of September	Richard Owen Cambridge	English poet, landowner and historian	85
September 19th	Luisa Maria of Naples-Sicily	Grand Duchess of Tuscany	29
September 19th	Pierre Roussel	French doctor, journalist	59
September 20th	Johann Georg Schulthess	Swiss reformed theologian	43
September 24th	Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev	Russian philosopher and revolutionary	53
25th of September	Antun Pejačević	Croatian nobleman, politician and military from the House of Pejačević	53
September 26th	George of Vega	Austrian soldier and mathematician	48
September 28th	Heinrich Harries	Poet of the later imperial hymn Heil dir in the wreath	40
September 29th	August Batsch	German botanist	40
September 29th	Michelangelo Luchi	Cardinal of the Roman Church, Benedictine

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Guillaume d'Abbes de Cabrebolles	French lawyer, man of letters and encyclopaedist	84
October 2nd	Friedrich Adrian Dietrich von Roeder	Prussian Lieutenant General, Official Captain von Balga, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 6	72
8th October	Johann Melchior Beseke	German ornithologist	56
9th October	Ferdinand	Infant of Spain and Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla (1765–1802)	51
15th October	Franz Friedrich Wundram	Silk construction and brickworks administrator of the state, sovereign, Royal British and Electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg brickworks in Herrenhausen
October, 16th	Charles Dugua	French division general
October, 16th	Joseph Strutt	English engraver, artist, poet, antiquarian and writer	52
October, 16th	Peter Hinrich Widow	German lawyer and mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg	66
October 21	Philipp Karl von Alvensleben	Prussian diplomat and minister	56
October 21	Wilhelm Julius of Plotho	Prussian major general, commandant of the Plassenburg	73
October 22nd	Samuel Arnold	English composer	62
October 22nd	Sophie Arnould	French opera singer (soprano) and salonière of the Enlightenment	58
October 24th	André Joseph Lemaire	French Artillery Division General	64
October 24th	Ludovico Manin	last doge of Venice	77
October 26th	John E. Colhoun	American politician
October 26th	Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi	German historian and librarian	67
October 29th	Charles Alexandre de Calonne	French statesman	68
October	Jean-François-Henri Collot	French author and encyclopedist	86

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 2	Edward Langworthy	American politician
November 2	Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc	French general	30th
November 5th	Leopold I.	first prince of Lippe	34
November 7th	Franz Ludwig Pfyffer	Swiss politician and topographer	86
November 8th	Johann Gottlieb Georgi	German geographer and chemist	72
November 9th	Thomas Girtin	English landscape painter	27
November 11th	Gottlieb Wernsdorf II.	German legal scholar	55
14th November	Heinrich Friedrich Innocenz Apel	Saxon lawyer and mayor of Leipzig	70
14th November	Samuel Simon Witte	Theologian and philosopher	63
15th of November	George Romney	British painter	67
November 16	André Michaux	French botanist and explorer	56
November 17th	Friedrich Joseph Emerich	German poet and publicist	29
November 17th	Johann Uphagen	German shipowner, merchant and bibliophile collector	71
November 17th	John Mathews	American politician
22nd of November	François Watrin	French division general of the cavalry	30th
November 23	Johann Georg Heinzmann	German bookseller and writer	44
November 27th	John Baptista Ashe	American politician
30th of November	Jacques Maurice Hatry	French division general and senator	60

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Diederich Meier	Bremen councilor and mayor	54
December 5th	Lemuel Francis Abbott	English painter
December 7th	Carlo Giuseppe Filippa della Martiniana	Italian cardinal, Bishop of Vercelli	78
December 8th	Niklaus Sprüngli	Swiss architect, master builder of Bern
December 14th	Johann van der Beeck	German councilor and businessman	73
December 14th	Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil	French officer, second highest in command of the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War	78
15th December	Johann Lorenz Böckmann	German physicist and mathematician	61
December 17th	Johannes Wiedewelt	Danish sculptor	71
20th of December	Carl Gottlob Beck	German printer, bookseller and founder of the CH Beck publishing house	69
20th of December	Absalom Tatom	American politician
21st December	Johanna Sacco	Austrian actress and dancer	48
23rd of December	Camillo Federici	Italian comedy poet	53
23rd of December	Johann Hermann Schnobel	German cantor and historian	75
December 27th	Wilhelm Heinrich Bethmann	German organ builder	57
December 27th	Johann Gottfried Brügelmann	German industrialist
December 27th	Johann Joachim Busch	Mecklenburg architect	82
December 27th	Jens Juel	Danish painter	57
December 28th	Johann Jakob Morff	ducal court and theater painter
December 29th	Christian von Brokes	Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Isaac Alexander	German rabbi and philosopher of the Enlightenment
	Ivan Petrovich Argunov	Russian painter and portraitist
	Nicolás Antonio de Arredondo	Viceroy of the Río de la Plata
	Bùi Thị Xuân	Vietnamese general
	John Bull	American statesman and fighter for American independence
	Louis Le Bègue Duportail	Officer in the Continental Army and French Minister of War
	Johannes Jacobus Finger	Bailiff in Wehrheim
	Karl Franz	German musician
	Johann Christian Gottfried Fritzsch	German engraver
	Johann Christian Gerning	Frankfurt trader and banker
	Johannes Herrenschneider	Lutheran clergyman in Strasbourg and court preacher in the county of Gaugrehweiler
	Gerhard Hess	German Benedictine monk and historian
	John Hunter	American politician
	Karl Friedrich von Jungkenn	Prussian major general, commander of the infantry regiment "Graf Dohna"
	Caroline Louise von Klencke	German poet
	Johann Michael Koneberg	German painter
	Johann August Neumeister	Vogtland calico printer
	Salem Poor	African American soldier recognized for bravery in the Battle of Bunker Hill
	David Schindelmeißer	German lawyer and book collector
	Thuken Lobsang Chökyi Nyima	Tibetan historian and clergyman
	Johann Christian Winter	German cantor and poet