Necrology 1806

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This is a list of well-known people who died in 1806 . 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
January 5th	Karl Alexander	Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth	69
6th January	Johann Heinrich Riesener	German cabinet maker	71
January 12th	Manuel Abad y Lasierra	Spanish bishop	76
13th January	Georg Lorenz Bauer	German Lutheran theologian	50
13th January	Friedrich Adrian von Borcke	Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 30	72
13th January	Franz Spohn	Corporal in the 36th Infantry Regiment in the French Army	29
15. January	Charlotte Elisabethe Zobel	Heilbronn merchant's daughter was discussed as a role model for Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn	31
January 16	Nicolas Leblanc	French doctor, chemist and manufacturer	63
January 17th	Franz von Werneck	Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal	57
21th January	Friedrich August Weber	German composer, doctor and writer	52
January 23	William Pitt the Younger	British Prime Minister	46
January 26th	Richard Law	American lawyer and politician	72
January 26th	Jean-Joseph Mounier	Politician during the French Revolution	47
January 26th	Johann Christoph Friedrich Schulz	German Protestant theologian	58
January 26th	Christian Wilhelm Westerhoff	German composer
January 28th	Franz Güssmann	Austrian Jesuit and physicist	64
January 28th	Konrad Daniel Schumacher	German Lutheran clergyman, general superintendent	69
January 30th	Ernst Ludwig Wilhelm of Dacheröden	German civil servant	41
January 30th	Christian Friedrich Quandt	German doctor and writer	39
31 January	Gottlieb Ignaz von Ezdorf	German writer and administrative officer	62

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
February 1st	Charles-Nicolas Favart	French actor and writer	56
February 2nd	John Bird	American lawyer and politician	37
February 2nd	Daniel Rogers	American politician	52
3 February	Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne	French novelist	71
February 5th	Charlotte-Jeanne Béraud de la Haye de Riou, Marquise de Montesson	French nobleman and writer	67
February 6th	Pierre-François Bienaymé	French bishop and naturalist	68
February 6th	Abiel Foster	American politician	70
February 7th	Ferdinand Friedrich Joachim von Elsner	Prussian major general	62
February 7th	Christian Heinrich Groskurd	German educator and author	58
February 11th	Vicente Martín y Soler	Spanish composer	51
February 12th	Andreas Stütz	Austrian geologist and mineralogist	58
February 12th	Franz Joseph von Wurmbrand-Stuppach	Austrian diplomat	68
13th February	Sámuel Ambrózy	Hungarian Lutheran theologian	57
13th February	Peter Joseph Neyron	German lawyer and university professor
14th of February	Jean Dauberval	French dancer and choreographer	63
February 15th	Karl Ludwig Bogislav von Goetze	Royal Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 19, hereditary lord on Wendemark (Kr. Osterburg)	63
February 16	Franz von Weyrother	Austrian general
February 18	Brigida Banti	Italian opera singer	50
20. February	Christian Karl Kanne	Senator and assessor of the Court of Appeal and the Leipzig Faculty of Law and Vice Mayor of Leipzig	61
February 23	Tommaso Giordani	Italian composer
February 24th	Jean-François Collin d'Harleville	French poet and playwright	50
February 24th	Carl Friedrich Hagemann	German sculptor	33
February 25	Heinrich Christian Boie	German writer and editor	61
February 26th	Thomas Alexandre Dumas	French general	43
27th of February	Hans Jakob Nägeli	Swiss pastor, composer and choir director

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
1st March	Chaim Joseph David Azulai	Jewish scholar, Kabbalist and bibliographer
1st March	Karl Heinrich von Paczensky and Tenczin	Royal Prussian major general and finally commander of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 1	74
4th of March	Georg August Spangenberg	German lawyer and university professor	67
7th March	Ernst Carl Ludwig Ysenburg from Buri	German author	58
9th March	Karl Friedrich von Kruse	Court Chamber and District President in Nassau-Usingen	68
March 10th	Franz de Paula Karl von Colloredo	Austrian Cabinet and Conference Minister	69
March 10th	Hans Reimar von Kleist	Prussian major general	69
March 10th	François Denis Tronchet	French lawyer; Defender of Louis XVI.	79
March 11	Shearjashub Bourne	American politician	59
March 11	Friedrich Bogislaw von Puttkamer	Prussian manor owner and long-time district administrator of the Stolp district	73
March 13th	James McLene	American politician	75
March 13th	Johann Friedrich Wolff	German doctor, botanist and entomologist
the 14th of March	Johann Gustav Friedrich von Engelbrechten	German judge at the Wismar Tribunal, Chancellor of Swedish Pomerania	72
March, 15	Karl Friedrich Becker	German historian	29
March 16	Johann Clemens death	German-Danish doctor, university professor and writer	69
March 16	Johann Friedrich Trentepohl	German Lutheran clergyman and botanist	58
17. March	Friedrich Christian Paldamus	German Reformed theologian and clergyman	42
March 18th	Adolph Friedrich Dehns	German lawyer and Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck	65
19th March	James Jackson	American politician	48
March 21st	Cosimo Alessandro Collini	Italian natural historian and Secretary to Voltaire	78
March 23	George Frederick Pinto	English composer	20th
March 24th	Jacob Friedemann von Werthern	German nobleman	66
26th of March	Jan Alois Hanke	Moravian enlightener, historian, writer and humanist	54
March 30	Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire	British noblewoman and writer	48
March	Francis Walker	American politician	41
March	Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy	German organ builder

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
2nd of April	Werner Marx	Vicar General in Cologne	59
2nd of April	Karl Heinrich Seibt	German pedagogue and Catholic theologian	71
4. April	Carlo Gozzi	Author and playwright	85
4. April	Josef Platzer	Austrian architect and decorative painter	54
April 8th	Robert Barker	Irish painter
April 8th	Heinrich Julius Alexander von Kalb	German major in French service	53
9th April	Johann Ephraim Christian Ernst von Irwing	Prussian major general and finally commandant of Schweidnitz	68
9th April	Wilhelm Heinrich von Kleist	Prussian colonel	70
9th April	Johann Ernst Schulz	German Protestant theologian	63
9th April	Wilhelm V.	Governor of the Netherlands	58
10th of April	Horatio Gates	American general in the Revolutionary War
12. April	Johann Gottfried Hasse	German Protestant theologian and orientalist
April 13th	Jean-Jacques Bachelier	French painter
April 18	Jonas Jeitteles	Jewish doctor	70
April 21	Hans Messerli	Swiss builder	87
April 22	Pierre de Villeneuve	French vice admiral	42
April 24th	Johann Gottlieb Rose	German lawyer, Lord Mayor of Kolberg	63
26th of April	Wenceslaus Bernard Ambrozy	Bohemian history painter	82
April 27	Amalie von Gallitzin	Co-founder of "romantic" Catholicism	57
April, 30th	Onogawa Kisaburo	Sumo wrestler and fifth yokozuna

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
1st of May	Carl Cannabich	German composer
May 3rd	Christoph Saxe	Historian, university professor in Utrecht	92
May 6th	Judas Thaddäus Sigerst	German Benedictine abbot	70
May 7th	Heinrich Wilhelm von Huth	Danish general and politician	88
8th of May	Robert Morris	British-American trader, one of the founding fathers of the United States	72
May 9	Eiler Christopher von Ahlefeldt	Bailiff and Abbot of the Soissons Bishopric in France	69
May 9	Karl Philipp von Anhalt	Prussian major general	73
May 9	Christian Victor child father	German general superintendent	48
May 13th	Samuil Micu	Romanian philosopher, theologian, historian, Romance scholar, grammarian, lexicographer and translator	60
May 13th	Wenzel Aloys Stütz	German medic	33
May 15	James Watson	American politician	56
May 19th	Petrus Domenicus Rosius à Porta	Swiss Reformed clergyman and church historian	71
May 21	Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily	Princess of Naples-Sicily, Infanta of Spain	21st
May 21	Ludwig von Büren		70
31. May	Urban Bruun Aaskow	Danish medic	64
31. May	George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney	British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat	69
31. May	Michael from Melas	Austrian general	77
May	John Jordan Crittenden Sen.	American politician

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
3rd of June	Christian Wilhelm Alers	German author and poet	68
3rd of June	Hartwig Ludwig Christian Bacmeister	German historian, geographer, linguist and bibliographer	76
June 5th	Gabriel François Doyen	French painter	80
6th of June	Philipp Heinrich Hellermann	German builder	77
July 6th	Daniel Mowry	American politician	76
8th June	Johann La Roche	Austrian actor	71
8th June	George Wythe	American politician and lawyer
June 12	Ernst Johann Sigismund von Boyen	Prussian general of the cavalry	75
June 12	Eugenios Voulgaris	Greek monk, theologian, philosopher and writer	89
15th June	Otto Hermann von der Howen	Courland politician	65
June 16	Johann Wilhelm du Plat	lieutenant general and cartographer from Hanover	70
17th of June	Henry Holland	British architect	60
17th of June	Joseph Sécret Pascal-Vallongue	French pioneer brigadier general	43
20th June	Peter Anton Moosbrugger	Austrian rococo plasterer	73
June 21st	Franz Xaver of Saxony	Prince of Saxony and Poland	75
June 21st	Johann Ignaz Schiffermüller	Austrian author and zoologist	78
23rd June	Mathurin-Jacques Brisson	French zoologist and natural philosopher	83
23rd June	Adolf Friedrich Harper	German landscape painter	80
June 28th	Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers	German organist and composer	64

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
July 1	Joachim von Schwarzkopf	German lawyer, historian and diplomat in the service of the Electorate of Hanover	40
July 4th	Karl Ernst von Dobschütz	German landowners, counterfeiters, state criminals	53
July 4th	Charles Henri Sanson	Executioner of Paris and Versailles, revolutionary executioner of the French Revolution	67
July 6th	Friedrich Wilhelm von Lengefeld	Prussian lieutenant general and general advertising inspector	72
7th of July	Isaak Daniel Itzig	Prussian court building advisor and Jewish entrepreneur	55
10th of July	George Stubbs	English painter and scientist	81
July 11th	James Smith	Irish-British-American attorney and signatory of the United States' Declaration of Independence
16th of July	Jean Louis Delolme	Swiss legal scholar
16th of July	Caterino Mazzolà	Italian librettist and poet	61
22nd of July	Maximilian Baillet from Latour	Austrian general	68
22nd of July	John Williams	American politician	53
July 23	Johann Valentin Heimes	German priest and auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Mainz	65
July 25th	Justus Arnemann	German medical professor and surgeon	43
July 25th	Friedrich Gustav Arvelius	Estonian educator, writer and poet	53
July 26th	Karoline von Günderrode	German romantic writer	26th
July	Robert Gray	American navigator and explorer	51

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
August 1st	Vincenzo Lunardi	Italian aviation pioneer	47
August 2nd	Johann Heinrich Vincent Nölting	High school professor in Hamburg for philosophy	70
August 2nd	Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Zincken	German lawyer and judicial officer in Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig
3rd August	Michel Adanson	French botanist	79
4th of August	Johann Gottfried Hagemeister	German actor, poet, publicist and teacher	44
6th of August	Johann Rudolph Schellenberg	Swiss painter, etcher, illustrator, botanist and entomologist	66
8th August	Rudolf Gottlieb von Dyherrn	Prussian major general
August 10	Michael Haydn	Austrian composer	68
August 10	Christian Kalkbrenner	German choir director and composer	50
17th August	John Dennis	American politician	34
17th August	Heinrich Mette	German gardener	71
18th of August	Johann August Arens	German architect, landscape designer, construction officer	49
20th of August	Karl Ludwig	Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Dutch general	83
August 21	Franz Joseph Fischer	Premonstratensian, Dept.
August 21	Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen	German businessman and social utopian	52
August 22nd	Jean-Honoré Fragonard	French painter	74
August 22nd	Conrad Quensel	Swedish naturalist	38
August 23	Charles Augustin de Coulomb	French physicist	70
August 23	Johann Eleazar Zeissig	German painter and draftsman	68
26th of August	Johann Philipp Palm	German bookseller	39
August 28th	Karl Daniel Reusch	German physicist and librarian	71
29th August	Susanne Bohl	German occasional poet from Goethe's time	68
29th August	Swibert Burkhard Schiverek	botanist	64

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
September 1	Edward Nairne	English optician, instrument maker and discoverer of the eraser
September 2nd	Leopold Alois Hoffmann	Austrian publicist and playwright	46
September 3	Charles Pettit	American politician
September 4th	Johann Michael by Herbert	Austrian entrepreneur (Austria)	79
September 6th	Johann Wilhelm Christian Brühl	German physician and university professor	48
September 4th	Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn	German bookseller and publisher	66
7th of September	Hieronymus von Brückner	Prussian major general and chief of the 9th Dragoon Regiment	75
the 9th of September	William Paterson	American statesman, Supreme Court Justice	60
September 10	Johann Christoph Adelung	German librarian and linguist	74
September 10	Johann Anton Leisewitz	German author, lawyer and writer	54
13.september	Charles James Fox	British statesman and orator	57
13.september	David Wing	American politician and judge	40
September 19th	Franz Samuel Karpe	Philosopher and university professor	58
21st September	Ambros Stierlin	Swiss Benedictine monk, collegiate bandmaster, composer and organist	39
September 23rd	Placidus Sprenger	German Benedictine and historian	70
September 27th	Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg	German administrative officer, director of the National Theater in Mannheim	55
September 28th	August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg	Prince and patron	59

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
5th October	Joseph d'Hémery	French official	84
9th October	Abraham Jacob van Imbijze van Batenburg	Dutch governor of Berbice and Essequibo	53
9th October	Friedrich August Brand	Austrian landscape and history painter	70
October 10th	Henri Fouquet	French doctor, encyclopaedist	79
October 10th	Theresa Concordia Marron	German painter
October 10th	Jeremias Jakob Oberlin	French scholar and philologist	71
October 10th	Louis Ferdinand of Prussia	Son of Prince Ferdinand of Prussia and his wife Anna Elisabeth Luise of Brandenburg-Schwedt	33
October 10th	Franz Josef Schwoy	Moravian topographer and archivist	63
October 13th	Johann Christian Petersen	German Protestant theologian	56
October 14th	Jean-Louis Debilly	French brigadier general of artillery and infantry	43
October 14th	Joseph Higonet	French infantry colonel	34
October 14th	Charles Antoine Houdar de La Motte	French infantry colonel	32
15th October	Paul Joseph Barthez	French medic	71
October, 16th	Christian Ludwig Seebass	German philosopher	52
October 17th	Jean-Jacques Dessalines	Emperor of Haiti (1804-1806)	48
October 17th	Franz Seydelmann	German musician and composer	58
October 18	Heinrich Gottfried Engelbrecht	Prussian colonel
October 18	Friedrich Wilhelm Carl von Schmettau	German officer, most recently royal Prussian lieutenant general as well as topographer and cartographer	63
October 19th	Stanislaw Zawadzki	Polish architect and officer
October 22nd	Thomas Sheraton	Furniture designer
October 25	Benjamin Banneker	American scientist	74
October 25	Henry Knox	American bookseller, chief artillery officer in the Continental Army, first US Secretary of War	56
October 26th	John Graves Simcoe	British Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada	54
28th of October	Charlotte Turner Smith	English writer, poet and translator	57
October 29th	Karl Friedrich Gottlieb von Schladen	Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 41	76
30th of October	Friedrich Gabriel Resewitz	Pedagogue and educational politician	77
October 31	Sophie Mereau	German Romantic writer	36

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
November 1st	Johann Gottfried Kletschke	Prussian field provost	58
November 1st	Christian Heinrich von Quitzow	Prussian Major General and Chief of Cuirassier Regiment No. 6	69
November 1st	Ludwig Zoeschinger	German clergyman, composer and organist	75
November 3rd	José Clavijo y Fajardo	Spanish publicist and writer	80
November 3rd	Karl Gottlob Leisching	German superintendent in Langensalza	80
November 5th	Georg Melchior Kraus	German painter, educator and entrepreneur	69
November 5th	Franz Novotny	Romanian-German church musician and composer
November 7th	Eberhard Georg von Gemmingen	Landlord in Rappenau with lease ownership in Hungary	52
November 9th	Ernst August von Wintzingerode	Royal Prussian Lieutenant General and Commander of the Garde du Corps	59
November 10th	Christian Ludwig Hautt	German builder	80
November 10th	Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand	Prussian field marshal	71
November 10th	Shah Alam II	Mughal Mughal of India	78
November 11th	Fra Diavolo	Italian mugger and resistance fighter	35
November 11th	Friedrich Christian Arnold von Jungkenn	Hessian general and minister of war	74
November 11th	Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter	German botanist and professor of natural history as well as director of the court gardens in Karlsruhe	73
November 12th	Johann Leonhard Callisen	German Protestant theologian, General Superintendent von Holstein	68
November 12th	August Schenck	President of the Darmstadt Court of Appeal	61
November 18	Claude-Nicolas Ledoux	French architect	70
30th of November	Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen	German natural scientist	45
30th of November	Jakob von Colong	Prussian general of the infantry, director of the 3rd department in the Oberkriegskolleg	82
November	Johann Georg Buchwald	German porcelain artist	83

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
December 1	Johann August Urlsperger	German theologian and preacher (Pietist)	78
2. December	Franz Kreutter	German religious (Benedictine) and historian	70
6th of December	Gottlieb Nicolaus Stolterfoth	Evangelical Lutheran pastor at the Lübeck Castle Church	45
9th of December	Franz	Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld	56
9th of December	Josef Georg Hörl	Austrian lawyer, Mayor of Vienna	84
10th of December	Christoph Nathe	German miniature painter, watercolorist and eraser	53
December 14th	John Breckinridge	American lawyer and politician	46
15th December	János Fonovich	Teacher, Jesuit	91
December 17th	Thomas Beach	English portrait painter
December 17th	Sigmund of Gemmingen	Austrian Feldzeugmeister and knight of the Maria Theresa Order	82
19. December	Christian Lower	American politician	66
20th of December	Peter Petrovich Dolgorukov	Russian general and diplomat	28
21st December	Adrien-Louis de Bonnières	French ambassador	71
24th of December	Ferdinand Karl of Austria-Este	Archduke of Austria, Governor General of Lombardy and founder of the House of Habsburg-Este	52
24th of December	Karl Albrecht Friedrich von Raumer	Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general	77
December 26th	Louis Carmontelle	French painter, inventor and landscaper	89
December 29th	Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond	British nobleman	71

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Pietro Bardellino	Italian painter
	Joseph Billings	English navigator and hydrograph
	Luigi Borghi	Italian violinist pre-classical composer
	Thomas Braidwood	British educator
	Julius Ernst von Buggenhagen	Prussian Chamber President and Minister of State
	Louis Alexandre de Cessari	French engineer
	Colebee	Aboriginal elder who was captured by the British
	Johann Peter Constant	Dancer, machine and pantomime master
	Kitagawa Utamaro	Japanese artist
	Martin lamp	German servant of Immanuel Kant
	Andreas Moser	German writer and educator
	Mongoose Park	British explorer of Africa
	Simon Pölzel	gardener
	Sakurada Jisuke I.	Japanese kabuki writer
	Richard Sprigg	American lawyer and politician
	Johann Jakob Stockmar	Court painter to Louis IX. von Hessen-Darmstadt, Lieutenant Colonel and City Commander Darmstadt
	Matthias Stumpf	Swiss painter and engraver
	Johann Martin Will	German engraver, artist, publisher and editor