Necrology 1815

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1815 . 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	George Gale	American politician	58
January 3rd	Johann Carl Corthum	German gardener and plant breeder
January 3rd	Wilhelm Maximilian Rabe von Pappenheim	Landowner, officer, court official	50
January 3rd	Françoise Marie Antoinette Saucerotte	French stage actress	58
January 5th	Anton Wilhelm of L'Estocq	Prussian general of the cavalry	76
January 5th	Joseph Anton Sambuga	Catholic theologian and educator	62
January 8th	Claude-Juste-Alexandre Legrand	French division general	52
January 8th	Gottlieb Friedrich Otto	German teacher, pastor and lexicographer	63
January 8th	Edward Michael Pakenham	British Major General	36
January 9th	Giovanni Castiglione	Italian clergyman, bishop of Osimo and cardinal	72
January 9th	Johann Ludwig Schlosser	Poet, Lutheran theologian, pastor in Bergedorf	76
10. January	Belshazzar Hacquet	Natural scientist
15. January	Emma Hamilton	English mistress of Admiral Horatio Nelson
January 16	Daniel Caffé	German painter	64
January 17th	Giovanni Battista Monteggia	Italian surgeon	52
January 18th	Stanislas de Boufflers	French writer, military and colonial administrator	76
21th January	Matthias Claudius	German poet and journalist, lyric poet with folksong-like, but quite peculiar verse	74
21th January	Johann Wilhelm Wendt	German builder and painter	67
January 26th	David von Wyss the Elder	Mayor of Zurich	77
January 28th	Anton Dreyssig	German court organist and choir director in Dresden	41
January 29th	Arnoldus Vanderhorst	American politician	66
January 30th	Johann Carl Daniel Curio	Hamburg teacher, private teacher and publicist	60
January 30th	Johann Heinrich Seidel	German gardener and plant breeder	70
31 January	Francesco Saverio Bianchi	Italian monk and mystic	71
31 January	Franz Benedikt Hermann	Austrian mining specialist	59
31 January	Johann Christian von Hundt	Prussian lieutenant general, commandant of Thorn	84
31 January	Caroline von Linsingen	early love of the Duke of Clarence	46

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3 February	Niklaus Purtschert	Swiss builder and politician	64
February 4th	Solomon Fiorentino	Italian-Jewish poet	71
February 4th	August Robatz	Austrian sculptor
February 8	Ernst Christian von Kospoth	Prussian lieutenant general	91
February 9	Ellen Hutchins	Irish botanist	29
February 12th	Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty	Equestrian General	46
14th of February	Paul Ludwig Simon	Prussian architect and scientist	44
19th of February	Leonhard von Call	Austrian composer and guitarist	47
19th of February	Johann Fidel Erggelet	Austrian councilor and financial expert
20. February	Johann Christoph Georg Adler	German lawyer	56
21st of February	Christian bar	German educator, mathematician and geographer	76
21st of February	Johann Christoph Wedeke	German Protestant theologian	59
February 22	Simeon Olcott	American politician	79
February 22	Smithson Tennant	English chemist	53
February 24th	Robert Fulton	American engineer	49
February 25	John Thorold, 9th Baronet	English nobleman and politician	80
February 26th	Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld	Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Reich Field Marshal and Imperial Field Marshal	77
February 26th	Charles de Villers	French officer and philosopher	49
27th of February	Johann Christian Meier	German educator, pastor and writer	82
February 28	Johann Christoph Frisch	Prussian court painter in Berlin	77
February 28	Bernard Journu-Auber	French politician, scholar and shipowner	69
February 28	Christiane Sophie Ludwig	German writer
February	Robert Dodd	British marine painter

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Johann Marcus David	German painter	51
2nd March	Francesco Bartolozzi	Italian engraver	86
5. March	Franz Anton Mesmer	German doctor, founder of mesmerism	80
8th of March	Karl Dominik von Reding	Swiss politician	59
March 12th	David Bard	American politician
the 14th of March	Johann Georg Rosenmüller	German Protestant theologian	78
March 16	Ioan Piuariu-Molnar	Romanian ophthalmologist and writer
March 18th	Ernst Christoph Grattenauer	German bookseller and publisher	70
March, 20th	Augustine Zhao Rong	Soldier, Chinese-Christian martyr
March 23	Johann Walch	German book printer, painter, draftsman, engraver, cartographer and graphics publisher	57
26th of March	Lungtog Gyatsho	ninth Dalai Lama
March 31	Ludwig Heinrich Ferdinand Olivier	German educator of Swiss origin

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
April 1st	Samuel Liljeblad	Swedish botanist	53
April 1st	Carl Ludwig von Schramm	Prussian major general
2nd of April	Carl Gottlieb Weisser	German sculptor	35
7th of April	Friedrich Wilhelm von der Schulenburg-Kehnert	Prussian officer, most recently General of the Cavalry and Minister at the General Directorate and the Upper War College	72
April 8th	Jakub Jan Ryba	Bohemian teacher, cantor and composer	49
10th of April	William Roxburgh	Scottish physician and botanist	63
April 13th	Edward Edwards	British naval officer and explorer
April 14th	Johann Leopold Konstantin von Larisch	royal Prussian major general	62
April 15th	Nikola Bani	Archbishop of Dubrovnik	78
April 15th	Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld	German theater actress	69
April 15th	Franz Xaver Procházka	Czech painter	74
April 15th	Henriette Philippine Room	Aunt of the Brothers Grimm	67
17th April	Johann Gottfried Haas	German classical philologist, Hebraist, Romanist, grammarian and lexicographer
17th April	Philipp Sigismund von Lepel	District Administrator of the Usedom-Wollin District	75
20th of April	Wilhelm Friedrich Domeier	Hanoverian court doctor	51
April 21	Johann Christoph Mainberger	German organist and composer
April 21	Joseph Winston	American politician	68
April 22	Johann Hinrich Röding	German book author and tea dealer	51
April 24th	Sylvius Friedrich von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorff	Gotha Council and Minister
April 25	Bak Je-ga	Korean politician and neo-Confucian philosopher	64
26th of April	Pierre Mathieu Joubert	Bishop of Angoulême, member of the French national constituent assembly, politician	66
26th of April	Carsten Niebuhr	German-Danish mathematician, cartographer and explorer	82
April 29	Isaac of Sinclair	German diplomat and writer	39
April, 30th	Jean Joseph Tranchot	French geographer	63

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
5th of May	Felipe Rodríguez	Spanish organist, composer and monk	55
5th of May	Friedrich Wilhelm von Suter	royal Prussian lieutenant general	81
May 6th	Georg Friedrich Fickert	German hymn poet and pastor	56
May 6th	Bernhard Stöger	German Catholic theologian, philosopher and educator	58
May 7th	Jabez Bowen	British trader, politician, lawyer and officer	75
May 7th	Andrew Fuller	English theologian and Baptist	61
8th of May	Ernst Julius von Magusch	Prussian major general
8th of May	Louis-Auguste Jouvenel des Ursins d'Harville	French general of the cavalry	66
8th of May	Claude-Sixte Sautreau de Marsy	French publicist and man of letters
8th of May	David Ramsay	American historian and politician	66
May 11th	Aletta Haniel	German entrepreneur	73
12th of May	Bokey Khan	Kazak prince
May 16	Jonathan Williams	American officer and politician	63
May 18	Fridolin dust	Swiss entrepreneur	80
May 18	August Carl Alexander von Zanthier	German court official and author	80
May 21	Roman Hofstetter	Benedictine and composer	73
May 21	William Nicholson	British electrochemist, writer, translator, journalist, publisher, scientist, inventor of the hydrometer and discoverer of electrolysis	61
23. May	Henry Muhlenberg	American theologian and naturalist	61
25. May	Domenico Puccini	Italian composer	43
May 26	Georg Wilhelm Bartholdy	German educator, magazine editor and writer	49
May 26	Daniel Dewey	American lawyer and politician	49
May 27th	Matthew Clay	American politician	61

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Louis-Alexandre Berthier	French general and Marshal of France	61
June 1st	August Christian Borheck	German philologist, historian and university professor	64
June 1st	James Gillray	British cartoonist	57
2th of June	Friedrich Carl Arndt	German lawyer, mayor and city judge in Bergen on Rügen	43
June 7th	Roger Nelson	American politician
14th June	Philipp Adolph von Schwerin	Prussian major general and personal friend of Prince Heinrich	76
June 16	Friedrich Wilhelm	Duke of Braunschweig, German military leader of the Napoleonic Wars	43
June 16	Friedrich Karl Wilhelm von Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen	Imperial Field Marshal Lieutenant, Knight of the Maria Theresa Order, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen	63
June 16	Louis-Michel Letort	French general	41
June 16	Friedrich Meier	German painter and participant in the wars of liberation
17th of June	Hamidu rice	Algerian corsair captain
18th of June	Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice	French Artillery Divisional General	39
18th of June	Frédéric Guillaume de Donop	French general of the cavalry	42
18th of June	Guillaume Philibert Duhesme	French division general	48
18th of June	Claude-Étienne Michel	French officer of the French Revolutionary Army and the Napoleonic Army	42
18th of June	Christian Friedrich Wilhelm of Ompteda	German soldier	49
18th of June	Thomas Picton	British Lieutenant General, Division Commander in the Peninsula War, Governor of Trinidad	56
18th of June	William Ponsonby	British Major General
18th of June	Wilhelm Werner Otto von Schwerin	Prussian colonel	42
June 19th	Johann August Beck	Mayor of Dresden
June 19th	Raymond Pierre Penne	French general of the infantry	44
20th June	George Montagu	British zoologist
June 21st	Georg Carl August du Plat	Elector of Hanover and brigadier of the German Legion	45
June 21st	Johann Christian Woltaer	German legal scholar	70
June 22	Ludwig von Gall	Hessian general major	46
June 24th	Charles Lee	American lawyer and attorney general
25th June	Friedrich Ernst von Schauroth	Prussian major general	67
June 28th	Torii Kiyonaga	Japanese artist
June 29th	Christian Friedrich Schwan	German publisher and bookseller	81
June 30th	Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter	Prussian officer and reformer	72

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Johann Hermann von Melle	German teacher and librarian	65
3rd of July	Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden	German mining captain and Prussian minister	63
July 4th	Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann	German geographer and natural historian	71
5th July	Sofie Ackermann	German theater actress
5th July	Joseph Barker	American politician	63
5th July	Maximilian Friedrich von Merveldt	Austrian general and diplomat	51
July 6th	Gottlieb Schnelle	German lawyer and fighter in the wars of liberation	25th
July 6th	Samuel Whitbread	British politician	51
7th of July	Karl Friedrich Elsäßer	German legal scholar	69
7th of July	Pedro de Garibay	Viceroy of New Spain
7th of July	Sakugawa Kanga	Master of the early Okinawan tode	82
16th of July	Adolph Ferdinand Gehlen	German chemist	39
16th of July	Albert Jacob Steinfeldt	German pianist, organist and composer	74
16th of July	Johann Peter Waldeck	German university professor of law in Göttingen	64
20th of July	Jean Baptiste Louis d'Audebert de Férussac	French officer and malacologist	70
24th July	Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz	Austrian physician and botanist	43
July 28th	Philip Barton Key	American lawyer and politician	58

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
August 2nd	Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune	Marshal of France	52
6th of August	James A. Bayard Sr.	American politician (Federalist Party)	48
6th of August	Giuseppe Gherardeschi	Italian conductor, organist, composer	55
6th of August	Wilhelm Friedrich Hermann Reinwald	German librarian and linguist	77
6th of August	Franz Wilhelm von Spiegel	Westphalian nobleman	63
8th August	Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller	German actor, writer and comedy poet	77
8th August	Anton Albert von Schullern zu Schrattenhofen	Austrian judge and Tyrolean defender	52
August 10	Handsome Lake	Indian prophet of Seneca
13 August	Abraham of Bailliodz	Prussian major general	78
13 August	Friedrich August Wiedeburg	German university professor and philologist	64
August 14th	Francesco Maria Pignatelli	Italian cardinal of the Roman Church	71
August 14th	John Steele	American politician	50
15th of August	Richard Bassett	American lawyer and politician (Federal Party)	70
15th of August	Jean-Pierre Ramel	General of the French Revolution and the First Empire	46
August 16	Friederike Bethmann-Unzelmann	German actress and singer	55
18th of August	Chauncey Goodrich	American politician	55
August 19th	Charles Angélique François Huchet de La Bédoyère	French lieutenant general under Napoléon Bonaparte	29
20th of August	August Wilhelm von Hertig	Royal Prussian major general and lastly commander of the artillery regiment No. 4	75
August 21	Carl Johan Adlercreutz	Swedish general	58
August 21	August Friedrich Bök	Wuerttemberg university professor, professor of philosophy, eloquence and poetry as well as prelate in Tübingen	75
August 21	Stanley Griswold	American politician	51
August 22nd	Bartholome Honnerlag	Swiss doctor	75
August 27	Johann Friedrich von Merkatz	Prussian lieutenant general	86
August 30th	Justus Christian Hennings	German moral philosopher and enlightener	84
August 31	Karl Friedrich Harttmann	German Lutheran theologian and hymn poet	72

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Spiridion from Lusi	Greek scholar and Prussian diplomat
September 3	John Murray	British and American theologian and author	73
5th September	Jacob Guiollett	German civil servant and politician	69
September 8th	Johann Gottlieb Kugelann	German pharmacist in Osterode, botanist and entomologist specializing in beetles	62
the 9th of September	John Singleton Copley	American-English painter	77
September 15th	Karl Christian von Elsner	royal Prussian lieutenant general and finally in command of Wittenberg	60
16th September	John Whitehill	American politician	85
September 18	Johann Heinrich Weed	Mayor in Brilon and Trades	57
September 24th	John Sevier	American politician	70
September 26th	Leopold Johannes Dassanowsky	Austrian court official and kk Hofpoststalldirektor	77
September 28th	Nicolas Desmarest	French geologist	90
September 29th	Otto Friedrich Ludwig von Schack	Prussian officer of the Gens d'armes and literary figure	52
September	Mary Edwards	British astronomer

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 2nd	Ferdinand Anton von Ahlefeldt	Danish diplomat	68
October 3	Joseph Albrecht Christoph von Bieberstein-Pilchowsky	Prussian major general	85
4th of October	Gabriel Hagspiel	Catholic priest, pastor of Grünstadt	50
4th of October	Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf	French cloth manufacturer of German origin	77
4th of October	Hans von Strantz	Prussian major general, manor owner	75
5th October	Carl Bertuch	German journalist and writer	37
5th October	Bartholomew Grass	Swiss reformed pastor and school reformer
October 7th	Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern	Estonian landowner and district administrator	67
October 10th	Johann Christlieb Kemme	German physician and university professor	77
October 10th	Friedrich Wilhelm von Leysser	German war and domain council, mine director and botanist	84
October 13th	Joachim Murat	King of Naples and Marshal of France	48
October 13th	Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder	German librarian and historian	76
October 14th	Christian Ludwig August von Arnswaldt	Electoral-Braunschweig-Lüneburg Privy Council and Consistorial President, Minister of War, Curator of the University of Göttingen and Royal Hanoverian State and Cabinet Minister	81
October 19th	Paolo Mascagni	Italian scientist and doctor	60
October 19th	Joachim Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppen	Prussian major general
October 22nd	Claude-Jacques Lecourbe	Officer in various European armies	56
October 26th	Cornelis van der Aa	Dutch bookseller	66
October 26th	Johann Josef Anton Huber	German baroque painter	78
28th of October	Jacob Fidelis Ackermann	German medic	50
October 29th	August Wilhelm von Mosch	Prussian general and author	79

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 2	Gottlieb Christoph Harleß	German classical philologist, philosopher and literary historian	77
November 2	Friedrich Wilhelm von Hertzberg	Prussian officer, most recently major general	76
November 2	Charles Thellusson	British politician	45
November 9th	Heinrich Bosshard of Rümikon	Swiss farmer, lay preacher and geodesist
November 11th	Damian Hugo Philipp von Lehrbach	German count, Jesuit, canon, provost and patron	77
15th of November	Stephen Heard	American politician and governor of Georgia	75
15th of November	Franz Xaver Kirchebner	Austrian painter	78
15th of November	Johann Friedrich Heinrich Panzer	German Protestant theologian and clergyman	51
15th of November	Johann Lukas Schubaur	German doctor and composer	65
November 17th	Luigi Asioli	Italian singer and composer
November 17th	Joseph Habersham	American politician	64
November 17th	Dorothea Viehmann	Storyteller and source of the fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm	60
20th November	Roger Davis	American politician	53
21st November	Johann Georg Taentzel	German master mason, stone mason and court and (council) builder, father of Ernst Ludwig Taentzel	60
25. November	Johann Peter Salomon	Violinist, composer, conductor and music impresario
30th of November	Benjamin Contee	American politician
30th of November	Johann Dietrich Lendorf	German servant	72

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2. December	Jan Potocki	Polish novelist, historian and ethnographer	54
3rd of December	John Carroll	first bishop and archbishop in the USA	80
December 5th	Christian Gottfried Gruner	German physician and historian	71
6th of December	Hyppolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils	French naturalist, chemist and mineralogist	42
December 7th	Michel Ney	French general	46
13th December	John Brown	American politician
15th December	Giuseppe Bossi	Italian painter and scholar	38
15th December	Friedrich Wilhelm Abraham Gaertner	Prussian judiciary and war commissioner in Magdeburg and fiscal of the French colony in Magdeburg	51
15th December	Jean-Joseph Menuret	French physician, author of medical treatises and encyclopedist
December 17th	Anna Pestalozzi	Wife Johann Heinrich Pestalozzis	77
December 18th	Johann Rudolph Becker	German administrative lawyer, writer and historian	79
19. December	Christian Julius Wilhelm Mosche	German educator and rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck	47
19. December	Benjamin Smith Barton	American botanist	49
19. December	Friedrich August Weiz	German physician and chronicler	76
19. December	Michel Woldemar	French violinist and classical composer	65
20th of December	Giovanni Meli	Italian doctor, scientist and poet	75
December 22	José María Morelos	Mexican revolutionary	50
December 22	Cajetan Toscani	Italian-Bohemian painter and draftsman, professor at the Dresden Art Academy
23rd of December	Franz Xaver von Auffenberg	Field Marshal Lieutenant in the Austrian Army
24th of December	Franz Victor Effinger	Politician	81
25 December	Josef von Mader	Austrian law professor and numismatist	61
December 26th	Johann Dominik Laeis	Glassworks owner	85
December 26th	Johann Wilhelm Petersen	German librarian	57
December 27th	Friedrich Carl Wilhelm Lemme	German piano maker and organist	69
December 29th	Sarah Baartman	Khoi stage actress
December 29th	Edme Mentelle	French cartographer	85
30th of December	Oluf Gerhard Tychsen	German orientalist	81
December 31	Walter Jones	American politician	70

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Johann Daniel Bager	German artist
	Jean Baptiste Bédard	French violinist, harpist and composer
	Giovanni Bertati	Italian librettist
	Archibald Blair	British marine surveyor
	Antonio Benedetto Carpano	Italian distiller
	Andreas Clemens	Transylvanian pastor, grammarian, lexicographer and Romanist
	Thomas Evans	American politician
	Stanoje Glavaš	Serbian freedom fighter and voivod leader
	Sabine Hitzelberger	German opera singer (soprano)
	Jaakow Jizchak Horowitz	Polish rabbi
	Johann Christoph Kaffka	German composer, violinist and opera singer
	Emma grains	German painter
	Fear god Leberecht von Nordenflycht	German mining engineer
	Heinrich Pfenninger	Swiss portrait painter and engraver
	Tešan Podrugović	Serbian Hajduk, poet and Guslar
	Hipólito Ruiz López	Spanish botanist
	Ahmad at-Tijani	Founding father of the Tijani Order
	Manuel de la Cruz dead	Prócer in Guatemala
	Julián Uribe	Chilean clergyman, military and politician
	Clemens August von Weichs	Landdrost in the Duchy of Westphalia and President of the Government in Arnsberg