Necrology 1803

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1803 . 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	Ignaz von Beecke	German composer and classical pianist	69
January 4th	James Kinsey	American lawyer and politician	71
6th January	Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger	Munich court plasterer of the late baroque (rococo), Wessobrunn school	67
January 7th	Matthias Christian Sprengel	German geographer and polyhistor	56
January 9th	Johann Boguslaw von Zitzewitz	Royal Prussian Major General, Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 9	78
11th January	Johann Heinrich Reß	German Lutheran theologian and author	70
11th January	Carl Wilhelm von Tschirschky	Prussian Major General, Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 11	67
January 12th	Giuseppe Baldrighi	Italian painter	80
13th January	August Friedrich von der Droessel	Prussian major general, chief of the body cuirassier regiment	66
15. January	Jean-Pierre Papon	French historian and Provençalist	68
15. January	Kirill Grigoryevich Razumovsky	Russian count and general	74
January 17th	Blaise Duval	French division general of the cavalry	63
January 17th	Friedrich Roman Gebhard	German Catholic clergyman, Jesuit	60
January 18th	Claire Clairon	French tragedian and court maitress in Ansbach	79
January 18th	Georg Christoph Kornacher	Mayor of Heilbronn (1784–1802)	77
January 18th	Sylvain Maréchal	French poet and philosopher	52
January 19th	Marcus heart	German doctor and university professor for philosophy	56
January 20th	Johann Friedrich von Ryhiner	Swiss statesman and geographer	71
21th January	Dionysius Schüppen	Prior of the Maria Engelport monastery	72
January 23	Arthur Guinness	Irish brewer and founder of the Guinness beer brand	77
January 26th	Georg Pasterwitz	Austrian composer and Catholic clergyman	72
January 28th	Karl von Marinelli	Austrian actor and writer
January 30th	Gustav Ernst von Strandmann	Russian general and governor	60

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Chydenius is different	Finnish pastor, politician and philosopher	73
3 February	Renée-Caroline-Victoire de Froulay	French author and salon artist	88
3 February	Karl Arnold von Hompesch	Canon of various cathedral monasteries, provost and mining entrepreneur	66
3 February	Wolfgang Ernst II of Isenburg and Büdingen	German prince	67
3 February	Wulf Dietrich von der Schulenburg	Danish Lieutenant General	71
February 5th	Giambattista Casti	Italian poet and satirist	78
February 6th	Gasparo Angiolini	Italian dancer, choreographer and theorist	71
February 6th	Richard Beresford	American lawyer, Continental Army officer, and Province of South Carolina politician
February 6th	Georg Gustav Fülleborn	German writer, philologist and philosopher	33
February 7th	Friedrich Ludwig Carl Christian zu Castell-Rüdenhausen	German sovereign and patron	56
February 8	Otto von Blome	Holstein landowner, canon and diplomat in Danish service
February 9	Erik Gustaf Lidbeck	Swedish economist and professor of natural history and economics	78
February 9	Jean-François de Saint-Lambert	French soldier, poet, philosopher and author	86
February 11th	Jean-François de La Harpe	French critic and poet	63
February 11th	Anton von Störck	Austrian medic	71
February 16	Giovanni Punto	Bohemian horn player, violinist and composer	56
February 16	Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné	last prince-bishop of the diocese of Strasbourg	68
February 17th	Nicolás del Campo	Spanish military and colonial governor	77
February 18	Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim	German poet of the Enlightenment period	83
February 18	Hans Caspar Hirzel	Swiss doctor and writer	77
19th of February	Mathias Weber	German robber
20. February	Marie Dumesnil	french actress	90
February 23	Helene Charlotte von Friedland	Brandenburg nobleman and landlady	48
February 25	Pablo de Olavide	Hispanic American lawyer, author, and politician	78
27th of February	Johannes Janett	Swiss reformed pastor	73

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd March	Franz Josef Freiherr von Heinke	Austrian lawyer	76
5. March	Siegmund of Bibra	German pedagogue and lexicographer	52
6th March	Johann Friedrich Alexander Thiele	German painter and etcher	55
8th of March	Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater	British nobleman	66
March 11	Jean-Baptiste Cardon	French harpist and composer
the 14th of March	Michel-François de Couët du Vivier de Lorry	French Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of La Rochelle	76
the 14th of March	Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock	German author and poet	78
17. March	Dmitri Alexeyevich Golitsyn	Russian diplomat, art agent, author	68
17. March	Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel	German medic	47
March 18th	Matthew Brettingham the Younger	British architect and art agent
19th March	Erdmann Bogislav von Hertzberg	Prussian officer, most recently major general	66
19th March	Magnus Friedrich Roos	German theologian	75
19th March	Praskovia Ivanovna Shemchugova	Russian actress and soprano	34
March 21st	Theodor Georg August Roose	German physician and professor of physiology and anatomy as well as medical historian
March 24th	Christian Gottlieb Geyser	German painter and engraver	60
March 24th	August Gottlieb Preuschen	German theologian, cartographer and geologist
25th March	Johann Evangelist Helfenzrieder	German Jesuit, mathematician and astronomer	78
25th March	Urban Klieber	Austrian sculptor	61
25th March	Martin Wolder Schrötteringk	German lawyer and Hamburg councilor	74
28th March	Christoph Friedrich von Mihlendorff Freiherr von Manteuffel	Elector of the Saxon infantry major	76
March 29	Gottfried van Swieten	Diplomat in the service of the Habsburg Monarchy	69
March 30	Christian von Dönhoff	Prussian Minister of War	61

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of April	Otto Wilhelm von Bärneck	Prussian major general
4. April	Georg Rudolf Böhmer	German physician and botanist	79
4. April	Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös	Bishop of Freising and Regensburg, last prince provost of Berchtesgaden	60
4. April	Josiah Smith	American politician	65
April 6th	Eberhard Ludwig Becht	German archivist and mayor of Heilbronn	70
April 6th	William Hamilton	Scottish diplomat, art collector and volcanologist	72
7th of April	Toussaint Louverture	Haitian national hero
April 8th	Louis François Antoine Arbogast		43
April 8th	Carl Wilhelm Robert	German theologian, lawyer and active Freemason	63
9th April	Mihály Bakos	Hungarian priest and writer
9th April	Samuel von Brukenthal	Governor of Transylvania	81
11 April	Hans Bernhard Ludwig Lembke	German doctor and city physician of Lübeck	80
11 April	Johann Friedrich Schroth	Austrian sculptor
April 14th	Carl Friedrich Evers	German lawyer, archivist and numismatist in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin	73
April 14th	Christoph Anton from Migazzi	Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and Cardinal	88
17th April	Johann Christoph von Knobelsdorff	Prussian Major General and Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 37
April 18	Georg Bernhard Leopold Zeller	German violinist, conductor and composer	74
April 19th	Christoph Haberland	Baltic German architect	53
April 22	Johann Heinrich von Günther	Prussian lieutenant general and military governor
April 24th	Adélaïde Labille-Guiard	French painter	54
26th of April	Isaac Bloom	American politician
April 27	Jeremias Nicolaus Eyring	German rector and university professor	63
April 27	Helfrich Bernhard Wenck	German Konsistorialrat, rector, educator, historian	63
April 28	Johann Benedikt Carpzov IV.	German theology and philology	82
April 28	Johann Fabian Wilhelm von Schätzel	Prussian major general	64
April 29	Karl Gottfried Ferdinand von Busch	Prussian Lieutenant General, most recently chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 8	69

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2.May	Friedrich Gedike	German educator and educator of the Enlightenment	49
May 3rd	Johann Jakob Weitbrecht	German typographer and publisher in St. Petersburg
May 4th	Katharina Lang	German singer and theater actress	28
May 4th	Jean-Joseph Merlin	Constructor in the field of precision mechanics, instrument maker and inventor of the roller skate	67
May 4th	Anton Rindenschwender	Entrepreneur, mayor of Gaggenau and pioneer of industrialization	78
May 7th	Heinrich Beck	German actor and playwright	43
May 9	Stevens Thomson Mason	American politician	42
10th of May	Christian Karl zu Erbach-Fürstenau	ruling count and Prussian major general	45
12th of May	Karl von Eckartshausen	German writer, philosopher and theosophist	50
17th of May	Karl Wilhelm	Prince of Nassau-Usingen	67
May 18	Christian Wilhelm Ketterlinus	German engraver	36
May 18	Samuel Livermore	American politician	71
May 18	Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda	German constitutional lawyer and minister	57
May 20th	Johann Gottfried Immanuel Berger	German Protestant theologian	29
May 21	Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Thym	German reformed theologian and educator	34
May 24th	Dietrich Tiedemann	German philosopher and university professor	55
May 26	Barthold Jonas Beseler the Elder	German small smith and bell founder	81
May 27th	Ludwig	first king of the Kingdom of Etruria	29
May 29th	Franz Eduard von Scott	Prussian major general and commandant of the Spandau Citadel	72
31. May	Franz Gareis	German painter	27

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Döring Wilhelm von Krockow	Prussian general of the infantry
2th of June	Ernst Jacob von Eckardstein	German entrepreneur, large landowner and chamberlain	61
6th of June	Josiah Tattnall Sr.	American politician and governor of Georgia
June 10th	Carl Friedrich von Biela	German Austro-Hungarian field marshal
June 10th	Henriette von Oberkirch	Friend of Princess Sophia Dorothea of Württemberg	48
June 10th	Anna Barbara Urner	Swiss poet	43
June 11th	Henrik Adam Brockenhuus	Danish nobleman	83
June 12	Athanasius Hettenkofer	Abbot of the Waldsassen Monastery	67
June 12	Richard François Philippe Brunck	Strasbourg classical philologist	73
June 12	Erik Palmstedt	Swedish architect	61
14th June	Johann Adam von Posch	Austrian lawyer and administrative officer	80
15th June	Pierre-François Bernier	French astronomer	23
17th of June	Otto Albrecht von Arnim	Prussian district administrator	51
June 21st	Georg Christoph Dahme	German Lutheran theologian and general superintendent	65
June 22	Wilhelm Heinse	German writer, scholar and librarian	57
June 24th	Matthew Thornton	Irish-British-American physician, lawyer and politician
June 28th	Ludwig Finck von Finckenstein	German judge and minister in Prussia	59

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd July	Ernst Anton Heiliger	Mayor of Hanover	73
July 4th	Peter Ascanius	Norwegian zoologist and mineralogist	80
5th July	Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller	German classical philologist and lexicographer	68
7th of July	Jacques-François Demachy	French chemist and pharmacist	74
8th of July	Francesco Casanova	Italian battle painter	76
8th of July	Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol	British bishop, art lover and eccentric	72
8th of July	Helena Martini	Mistress and confidante of Ludwig VIII of Hessen-Darmstadt	75
July 14th	Esteban Salas y Castro	Cuban composer and church musician	77
15th of July	Maria Theresia von Eltz-Rodendorf	Landowner
16th of July	Thomas Albrecht Pingeling	German engraver	75
17th July	Adolf	Landgrave of Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld from the House of Hessen	60
17th July	James T. Callender	Scottish-American novelist and satirist
21 July	Johann Jacob Volkmann	German writer	71
22nd of July	Domenico Corvi	Italian Rococo and Neoclassical painter	81
July 25th	Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin	French composer and violinist	76
July 25th	Melchior Adam Weikard	German doctor and philosopher	61
July 27th	Uno from Troil	Archbishop of Uppsala	57
29th of July	Jean-Baptiste d'Odet	Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop of the diocese of Lausanne	50

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 2nd	Michael Philipp Boumann	German architect and builder in Prussia	56
4th of August	Hermann Jacob Lasius	German classical philologist and pedagogue	87
6th of August	Asaf Jah II.	ruler of the area of the Indian Deccan, which became the princely state of Hyderabad, for over 40 years	69
6th of August	Pascha Johann Friedrich Weitsch	German landscape painter	79
August 10	Angelo Maria Bandini	Italian author and librarian and canon	76
August 10	Joseph Galloway	British politician in colonial North America
August 11th	Karl von Hohenzollern-Hechingen	Prince-Bishop of Warmia	71
12. August	Ignazio Busca	Italian clergyman, cardinal and cardinal secretary of state	71
August 14th	Johann Heinrich August Schulze	German educator, philologist and Protestant clergyman	48
15th of August	Friedrich Gottlieb von Laurens	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 56	66
18th of August	James Beattie	Scottish philosopher and writer	67
18th of August	Adolph Friedrich Trendelenburg	German lawyer, three times rector of the Princely University of Bützow and Hofpfalzgraf	66
August 21	Jacob Breuls	Bremen lawyer, senator and mayor	53
August 24th	Gregorio Fontana	Italian mathematician	67
August 24th	James Napper Tandy	Irish independence fighter
29th August	Louise Diede to the Fürstenstein	German noblewoman, pianist	51
August 30th	Otto Kasimir von Meerscheidt called Hüllessem	royal Prussian major general and commander of Magdeburg

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Samuel Collenbusch	German doctor, biblicist and representative of Pietism in the Rhineland	79
September 2nd	Jean-Baptiste Janson	French cellist and classical composer	61
September 3	Pomaré I.	King of French Polynesia
5th September	Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos	French writer and officer	61
5th September	François Devienne	French composer and flautist	44
September 6th	Theophilus Bradbury	American lawyer and politician	63
September 6th	Friedrich Gideon von Wolky	Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Hussar Regiment No. 10
September 10	Friederike Schmidt from Hessenheim	Heilbronn patrician	52
13.september	John Barry	Irish-American naval officer	58
13.september	Johann Joseph Nietner	German court gardener in Sagan and Niederschönhausen	76
September 15th	Giovanni Francesco Albani	Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Cardinal Dean (1775–1803)	83
16th September	Nicolas Baudin	French explorer	49
17th of September	Gerhard Philipp Scholvin	Protestant theologian	79
17th of September	Richard Smith	American politician	68
17th of September	Franz Xaver Suessmayr	Austrian composer
September 18	Antoine Hugot	French flautist, university professor and composer
September 20th	John Brown	American politician	67
September 20th	Robert Emmet	Irish rebel leader and nationalist	25th
21st September	Maria Fortunata d'Este	Italian princess and by marriage Countess de la Marche and Princess de Conti	69
September 22	Johann Mathias Butz von Rolsberg	Austrian Catholic clergyman	91
September 24th	Helena Pavlovna Romanova	Member of the House of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp and, by marriage, Hereditary Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin	18th
September 24th	Georg Wilhelm Stein the Elder	German physician and active freemason	66

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 1	Philipp von Luck and Witten	Prussian colonel and knight of the order Pour le Mérite	64
October 2nd	Abd al-Aziz ibn Muhammad	Imam of the Wahhabis (1765-1803)
October 2nd	Samuel Adams	American statesman and revolutionary	81
4th of October	Johann Nicolaus Willebrandt	German lawyer, diplomat and official
October 6th	Johann Christian Sulzberger	Founder of the "Dr. Sulzberger Armen- und Krankenstiftung" and inventor of the river tincture of the same name	73
October 7th	Pierre Vachon	French violinist and composer	65
8th October	Vittorio Alfieri	Italian poet and playwright	54
October 10th	Robert Rutherford	American politician	74
October 11th	Alexander Matwejewitsch Dmitrijew-Mamonow	Lover of Catherine II of Russia (1786–1789)	45
October 13th	Louis Claude de Saint-Martin	French freemason, philosopher and mystic	60
October 14th	Aimé Argand	Swiss inventor, physicist, chemist and entrepreneur	53
October 14th	Ercole III. d'Este	Duke of Modena and Reggio	75
October 14th	Jacques Gamelin	French painter, draftsman, engraver and eraser	65
15th October	Ole Irgens	Norwegian Lutheran Bishop	79
October 19th	Benedict Strauch	German Catholic theologian and educator	79
October 21	Alberto Fortis	Italian clergyman, natural philosopher and polymath	62
23rd October	Edmund Pendleton	American planter, lawyer, and politician	82
October 26th	Joseph Fay	American politician and businessman	50
October 26th	Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford	British politician	82
October 27	Heinrich Johann von Brevern	Baltic German district administrator	54
30th of October	Karl Philipp zu Ingelheim	Oberamtmann in Königstein and Kurmainzer Council	63
30th of October	Johann Jakob Lautemann	German architect and builder	66
October 31	Hans Rudolf von Bischoffwerder	Prussian major general; Foreign Minister and favorite of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia	61

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 9th	Georges-Louis Le Sage	Geneva physicist	79
November 9th	Dietrich Wilhelm von Schultz	Prussian Major General, Commander of the Bosniken Corps, Chief of Hussar Regiment No. 3	70
November 11th	Rafael ben Jekutiel Süsskind Kohen	rabbi	81
November 12th	Petro Kalnyshevskyi	Ukrainian ataman and saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church	112
November 12th	Friedrich Alexander von Schoenberg	Electoral Saxon Chamberlain, Chief Tax Director and manor owner	49
November 13th	Christoph Friedrich Loesner	German classical philologist	69
14th November	Christian Erdmann Kindten	German organ builder	51
15th of November	Elias Bilgram	German master belt maker, mechanic, artisan, metal artist, mechanic, instrument maker and draftsman
21st November	Johannes Bückler	German robber
21st November	Christian Reinhard	German accomplice of the Schinderhannes
November 27th	Antoine Guenée	French priest and Christian apologist	86
November 28th	Johann Jakob Nathanael Neumann	German Protestant theologian and philosopher	53
November 29th	Johann Bernhard Vermehren	early romantic German poet and scholar	26th
November 29th	Joseph Walcher	Austrian Jesuit, mathematician and physicist	84
30th of November	François-Marie Daudin	French zoologist	27

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Adam Christopher Oldenburg	Danish major general	67
December 4th	Christoph Barthold Sharp	German administrative lawyer and regional author	77
December 5th	Franz Karl Wißgrill	Austrian genealogist and heraldist
11th December	Georg Friedrich Heinrich von Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen	Prussian Major General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 31	46
11th December	William Vans Murray	American politician	43
13th December	Jean Nicolas Grou	French Jesuit, priest, mystic and theologian	72
December 14th	Mark Thomson	American politician
15th December	Ludwig Josef Uhland	German Protestant theologian	81
December 17th	Luise Franziska Sophie von Imhoff	German lady-in-waiting
December 17th	Pietro Antonio Zorzi	Italian chaplain, archbishop of Udine and cardinal	58
December 18th	Johann Gottfried Herder	German poet, philosopher, translator and theologian of the Weimar Classic	59
December 22	Carolus Segaar	Dutch philologist and Reformed theologian	79
24th of December	George I.	Duke of Saxe-Meiningen	42
December 26th	Friedrich Heinrich d'Embers	Prussian major general, commander of the III. Battalions in Infantry Regiment No. 39	62
December 27th	Carl Ludwig von Pfuel	Prussian major general	78
30th of December	Francis Lewis	British-American businessman, one of the founding fathers of the USA	90
30th of December	Johann Georg Specht	Master builder at the end of the baroque period	82
December 31	Eric Hesselgren	Swedish theologian and bishop	88

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Joseph absences	Austrian builder
	Frédéric-Louis Allamand	Swiss doctor and botanist
	Johann Gottlob Bergold	German legal scholar
	Dietrich Jürgen Boy	Lübeck sculptor
	Duncan Campbell	British businessman, shipowner, plantation owner
	Francisco Tadeo Díez de Medina	Governor of Chile
	John Erskine	Scottish Pastor of the Church of Scotland and author
	Salvador Fidalgo	Spanish navigator, explorer and hydrographer
	Wilhelm Friedrich Goez	Protestant church council builder in Ludwigsburg
	Benjamin Rabbit	German court architect
	Anton Georg Hauptmann	German builder
	Friedrich Heidenreich	German organ builder
	Karl Anton Franz Donat Heusslein from Eußenheim	Franconian captain and chamberlain to the Prince of Würzburg
	Homma Munehisa	Japanese rice trader
	Christian Hee Hwass	Danish malacologist
	Thomas Jones	English painter
	Rodion Rodionowitsch Kazakow	Russian architect
	Johann Christoph Kellner	German composer and organist
	Niklaus Kury	Swiss sculptor
	Jean-Baptiste Lallemand	French painter
	Louis Adrien Le Paige	French lawyer and publicist
	Carl Wilhelm von Ludolf	Austrian diplomat and orientalist
	Jakob Mannheimer	German banker
	Elias Mayer	Oberhof and militia factor in Mannheim
	Hartmann von Moos	Swiss reformed clergyman
	Gotthard Christoph Müller	German mathematician, topographer and engineer
	Jaume Antoni Obrador i Soler	Spanish theologian and author
	Maha Surasinghanat	Thai military
	Mihai Șutu	Prince of Wallachia and Moldova
	John Walker	Scottish Reformed theologian and naturalist
	Thomas Wignell	American actor and theater manager
	Peter Woulfe	Irish chemist and mineralogist