Necrology 1818

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This is a list of well-known people who died in 1818 . 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	Fedele Fenaroli	Italian composer and music teacher	87
January 2nd	Camillo de Simone	Italian clergyman, cardinal of the Roman Church	80
January 2nd	Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Hausen	Prussian Lieutenant General, Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 16
January 2nd	Marta Christina Tijahahu	Indonesian freedom fighter and national heroine	17th
January 3rd	Johann Gottlieb Walter	German anatomist and university professor	83
January 5th	Marcello Bacciarelli	Italian Baroque painter	86
January 5th	Christoph Bernhard Verspoell	German Catholic priest, publicist and hymn poet	74
6th January	Heinrich von Witzleben	Prussian colonel and chief forest master	56
January 8th	Robert Bowie	American politician	67
10. January	Sebald Rau	German oriental philologist and reformed theologian
11th January	Johann David Wyss	Swiss author	74
13th January	Carl Ulysses von Salis-Marschlins	Graubünden scholar and politician	57
January 14th	Caleb Hopkins	British-American War Officer (1812)
15. January	Matwei Ivanovich Platov	Russian general and ataman of the Don Cossacks	66
January 16	Heinrich Guttenberg	German engraver	68
January 19th	Carlo Crivelli	Italian cardinal of the Roman Church	81
January 19th	Johann Ernst von Kunheim	Prussian Lieutenant General and the last chief of Infantry Regiment No. 1	87
21th January	Franz von Oppersdorff	Silesian nobleman and lord of the village of Oberglogau	39
22nd of January	Gottfried Christian Enslen	German painter	60
22nd of January	Christian Rau	German legal scholar	73
22nd of January	Caspar Wistar	American physician and anatomist	56
January 25th	Elias Martin	Swedish painter
January 27th	Johann Philipp Engelhard	German lawyer	65
January 29th	Johann Christian Henrici	German rhetorician and archaeologist
31 January	Hugh Glasgow	American politician	48
31 January	Johann Georg Grasel	Austrian robber	27
31 January	Charles Henri Joseph de Rasse	Mayor of Tournai City	43

February

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
February 1st	Giuseppe Gazzaniga	Italian opera composer	74
February 5th	Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann	German bookseller and publisher	69
February 5th	Charles XIII	King of Sweden (1809-1818) and King of Norway (1814-1818)	69
February 5th	Alois von Reding	Swiss politicians and military	52
February 7th	Ennio Quirino Visconti	Italian archaeologist	66
February 9	John Milledge	American politician
February 12th	Franz Christian Boll	German theologian and pastor of Neubrandenburg	41
13th February	George Rogers Clark	American pioneer	65
13th February	Emanuel Gottlieb Flemming	Founder of the Saxon blind system	45
February 15th	Friedrich Ludwig	Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Prussian general of the infantry	72
February 16	Vicente José Soto y Valcárce	Spanish Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Valladolid	77
February 17th	Juan Rodríguez Ballesteros	Governor of Chile
February 17th	Christian Heinrich Haase	Hanoverian mint master
February 17th	Ernst Franz von Platen-Hallermund	Privy Councilor of the Electoral Palatinate and Hereditary Postmaster General of Brunswick-Lüneburg	78
February 18	Simon Girty	indian warrior
February 18	Thomas Telfair	American politician	37
19th of February	Samuel Georg Herdt	German clergyman and theater actor
21st of February	Peterson Goodwyn	American politician
February 24th	Johann Friedrich Eyserbeck	German court gardener	83
February 28	Anne Vallayer-Coster	French painter	73

March

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st March	Jared Irwin	American politician
1st March	James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie	British politician	70
3 March	Pascal Antoine Fiorella	French general of the infantry of Corsican origin	66
3 March	Georg August Gabriel Heinsius	German administrative lawyer	70
3 March	David Schickler	Merchant, entrepreneur and banker in Prussia	62
6th March	Christian Gottlieb Gmelin	German legal scholar	68
8th of March	Justus Ehrenreich Sello	Royal Planteur in the Tiergarten, Berlin	59
March 10th	Gerhard Anton Gramberg	Urban and rural physicist in Oldenburg	73
March 10th	Ludwig	Governing Reichsgraf, Bavarian lieutenant general	65
March 10th	Jean Ferdinand Schwerdfeger	German cabinet maker, active in France
March 11	Maria Luise Albertine zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg	Grandmother of the Prussian Queen Luise	88
March 12th	Johann Sigismund Gottfried Huth	German mathematician and physicist	54
the 14th of March	Johann Joseph Freidhoff	German draftsman, engraver and mezzotint artist	50
March, 15	Karel Postl	Czech classical landscape painter, draftsman and graphic artist
17. March	Johann Christoph Bathe	German legal scholar	63
March 18th	Johann Klör	German fruit grower, beekeeper, linen weaver and smallholder	66
March, 20th	Johann Nikolaus Forkel	German organist and music historian	69
March 23	Nicolas Isouard	Maltese composer of French origin	42
March 23	Johann Ferdinand Balthasar Stieffell	Organ builder	80
March 24th	Michael Szabszinski from Rembow	Prussian Lieutenant General and Chief of Füselier Regiment No. 6
March 24th	Humphry Repton	English landscape architect	65
25th March	Henry Lee III	American cavalry officer and governor	62
25th March	Caspar Wessel	Danish-Norwegian mathematician and geodesist	72
27th of March	Pedro Benito Antonio Quevedo y Quintano	Spanish clergyman and cardinal	82
27th of March	Yelisaveta Alexandrovna Stroganova	Russian aristocrat	39
28th March	Antonio Capuzzi	Italian composer and violinist	62
28th March	Johann Friedrich Homeyer	German merchant, ship owner and royal Swedish councilor	65
March 29	Alexandre Sabès Pétion	Haitian politician	47
March 29	Thomas Posey	American politician	67
March 30	William Barry Grove	American politician	54
March 30	Peter Texier	German diplomat and businessman	80

April

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
2nd of April	Franz Georg Joseph von Lassaulx	German entrepreneur and publisher	36
2nd of April	Marco Molin	Italian politician, Mayor of Venice	59
2nd of April	Adolf Friedrich von Witzendorff	German squire, last provost in the Lübeck bishopric	71
April 5th	Hermann von Engelbrechten	Lieutenant general in Swedish and Prussian services	52
April 5th	Ernst Franz Witting	German businessman
7th of April	Joseph Barth	Austrian medic
April 8th	Juan José Carrera	Chilean military	35
April 8th	Luis Carrera	Chilean military
11 April	Carl Andreas Göpfert	German composer and musician	50
12. April	Peter Bolzano	Austrian-Bohemian medic
12. April	Barbara Schulthess	Swiss salonnière and pen pal Johann Wolfgang von Goethes	72
April 14th	Robert Glutz from Blotzheim	Swiss historian, writer, librarian and journalist	32
April 16	Johann Georg Geib	German master organ builder	78
April 16	Nicolaus Freiherr von Krufft	Austrian composer	39
April 18	Friedrich Ludwig Karl Finck von Finckenstein	Prussian district president	73
April 18	Ernst Christian Trapp	German educator	72
20th of April	Karl Freiherr von Stengel	Major General of the Bavarian Army	52
April 22	Karl August Gottlieb Keil	German Protestant theologian	63
April 23	Wilhelm Leberecht Götzinger	Developer of Saxon Switzerland	59
April 23	Armand de Roquelaure	Archbishop of Mechelen	97
April 25	George Armistead	Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army	38
26th of April	Adélaïde-Marie Champion de Cicé	French religious and founder of the Society of the Heart of Mary	68
April 27	Christopher Greenup	American politician

May

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
1st of May	François-Joseph Bélanger	French architect and garden designer	74
2.May	Herman Willem Daendels	Dutch general	55
2.May	Friedrich von Wendt	German medic	79
May 3rd	Johanne Wienholt	German co-founder of the religious Lavater circle
May 7th	Jean Cesar Godeffroy IV	Hamburg merchant	75
May 7th	Leopold Koželuh	Bohemian-Austrian composer and music teacher	70
May 9	Joseph Lux	German actor and singer (bass)	61
May 9	Clemens August von der Wenge	Cologne lieutenant general, Cologne privy councilor, chief hunter master	77
10th of May	Paul Revere	American freedom fighter
May 13th	Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly	German-Baltic officer as well as Russian general and minister of war	56
May 13th	Louis V. Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé	General of the French Army	81
May 13th	Emanuel Merian	Swiss Protestant clergyman	86
May 13th	Wilhelm von Voss	Prussian administrative officer, district administrator	33
May 14th	Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz	Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen	48
May 14th	Matthew Gregory Lewis	British writer	42
May 15	Friedrich Majer	German historian and folklorist	46
May 15	Maddalena Sirmen	Venetian violinist, singer and composer	72
May 16	Maximilian von Waldburg-Zeil	German nobleman	67
17th of May	Heinrich Friedrich von Baudissin	Danish ambassador in Berlin	64
17th of May	Inō Tadataka	Japanese surveyor and cartographer (1745-1818)	73
May 18	Lemuel Benton	American politician
May 21	Josef Felix Ineichen	Swiss Catholic pastor and dialect poet	72
May 22	Ludwig Friedrich Cellarius	German Protestant theologian	72
23. May	Ezekiel Pickens	American politician	50
May 26	Howell Cobb	American politician	45
May 26	Manuel Rodríguez	Chilean lawyer, officer, revolutionary and politician	33
May 27th	Blasius Bernauer	German organ builder	78
May 29th	Johann Amadeus Franz von Thugut	Austrian statesman and Minister for Foreign Affairs	82
31. May	Johann Valentin Hildenbrand	Austrian medic	55

June

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
June 1st	Franz Karl fields	Catholic theologian, author and editor	51
2th of June	August Wilhelm Knoch	German naturalist	75
3rd of June	Egwala Seyon	Emperor of Ethiopia (1801-1818)
6th of June	Jan Henryk Dąbrowski	Polish general	62
June 7th	Emanuel Bardou	Swiss sculptor	74
8th June	Fanny von Arnstein	Viennese salonnière	59
8th June	Henriette-Félicité Tassaert	Franco-German pastel painter and mezzotint artist	52
June 9th	Christian Friedrich Bucholz	German chemist and pharmacist	47
June 9th	Johann Friedrich von Herrmann	Prussian major general and most recently in command of the Pillau fortress	78
June 9th	Karl von Schon	Prussian major general, commandant of the fortress Graudenz	53
June 10th	Heinrich Julius von Goldbeck	Prussian Grand Chancellor and Minister of Justice	84
June 10th	Friedrich Adolf von Kalckreuth	Prussian officer, most recently Field Marshal General	81
June 10th	Heinrich Rieter	Swiss painter	66
June 16	Daniel Smith	American land surveyor, Colonel in the American Revolutionary War, and two-time Senator from Tennessee	69
June 16	Ferdinand von Wintzingerode	German nobleman and Russian general	48
18th of June	Christian Ludwig Ziegler	German builder	69
20th June	Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf	Queen of Sweden and Norway	59
20th June	Hans Gottlob von Zezschwitz	Saxon general of the cavalry	81
June 24th	Alexander Borisovich Kurakin	Russian minister and diplomat	66
25th June	Johann Philipp Roth	Baltic German writer and public educator	63
June 28th	Ludwig Wilhelm August von Ebra	royal Prussian lieutenant general, most recently military governor between the Elbe and Weser and hereditary lord on Ustrungen	58
June 28th	Henry Smith	American politician	52
June 29th	Karl Philipp Fohr	German painter	22nd
June 29th	Jean-Baptiste-Moïse Jollivet	French politician	64

July

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
July 1	Cay Hartwig Beseler	royal Danish chamber councilor and dike inspector	52
July 1	William Sharpe	American politician	75
July 1	Christian Ludwig Wilhelm Stark	German Protestant theologian	27
3rd of July	Friedrich August von Leutsch	German lawyer, Saxon diplomat, Hanoverian court vice-president	61
5th July	Erich Christian Klevesahl	German philosopher, historian and theologian; Professor of Philosophy in Giessen	73
5th July	Johann Georg Wilhelm Landré	German bell founder and council founder of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
July 14th	Alessandro Lante Montefeltro della Rovere	Italian cardinal	55
15th of July	Wilhelm Gottfried Christian von Kaphengst	Prussian officer and holder of the order Pour le Mérite	66
20th of July	Christian Abraham Heineken	Mayor of Bremen	65
20th of July	Georg Heinrich Seiferheld	Inventor, clergyman, councilor, natural scientist and non-fiction author	60
July 28th	Gaspard Monge	French mathematician, physicist and chemist	72
30th July	Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Nettelbladt	German lawyer and freemason	71

August

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
4th of August	Bonaventure Brem	German clergyman, last Reich prelate and abbot in Weissenau monastery
4th of August	Samuel Jordan Cabell	American politician	61
6th of August	Johann Jakob Rambach	German Lutheran theologian	81
August 7th	Bernhard Garlichs	Deputy and President of the Arrondissementrat Jever, Mayor of Jever	48
August 11th	Ivan Petrovich Kulibin	Russian watchmaker, mechanic, bridge builder and inventor	83
August 11th	Franz Georg Karl von Metternich	Diplomat and minister	72
12. August	John Lovett	American politician	57
13 August	Agostino Accorimboni	Italian opera composer	78
13 August	Johann Gottfried Eiffe	German painter
13 August	Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov	Russian journalist and editor	74
August 19th	Kaspar Joseph von Clotz	Mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
August 19th	Georg Friedrich Wehrs	German lawyer and author
August 21	James Lucas Yeo	British naval officer	35
August 22nd	Warren Hastings	Governor General of the British East Indies	85
August 24th	James Carr	American politician	40
August 24th	Ignaz von Heffter	Mayor of the City of Salzburg	78
August 24th	David Wolf Landau	German chief rabbi
August 25	Johann Heinrich Crevelt	German doctor and scientist
August 28th	Georg Moritz von Blomberg	German district administrator and poet lawyer	48
August 30th	Domingo Badía y Lively	Spanish-Catalan explorer, politician and convert to Islam	51
August 30th	Casimiro Gómez Ortega	Spanish botanist	77
August 31	Arthur St. Clair	American politician and army officer	82

September

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
September 1	Robert Calder	British admiral
September 4th	Ludwig Philipp von Engelbrecht	Prussian engineer officer, most recently colonel and commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade	60
7th of September	Johann Holzer	Austrian song and singspiel composer	65
the 9th of September	Seymour Dorothy Fleming	British nobles
September 19th	Olof Peter Swartz	Swedish botanist	57
September 20th	Jared Irwin	American politician	50
September 24th	Aloys Friedrich Wilhelm von Hillesheim	German economist and publicist	62
September 28th	Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume	French admiral	63
September 28th	Franz Gleißner	German composer, court musician at the Munich court and musicologist
September 28th	Otto Bogislaff from Kleist	Prussian major and Pomeranian district administrator	73

October

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
October 3	Louis Cousin-Despréaux	French Homme de lettres	75
October 3	Anton Reyberger	Austrian Roman Catholic theologian; Registrar; Rector of the University of Vienna; Abbot of Melk Abbey	61
4th of October	Josef Abel	Austrian painter	54
October 7th	Gudmund Jöran Adlerbeth	Swedish statesman, scholar and poet	67
October 7th	Heinrich von Béguelin	Prussian tax officer	53
October 7th	David Stone	American politician	48
8th October	George Truitt	American politician
October 11th	Johann Friedrich Carl Dürisch	Saxon bailiff and manor owner	65
October 11th	Karl Friedrich von Hirschfeld	Prussian officer, most recently general of the infantry
October 14th	Josiah Dean	American politician	70
October, 16th	Ignaz Pickel	German Jesuit, astronomer, mathematician, researcher of prehistory, textbook author
October 17th	Antonio Dugnani	Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church	70
October 18	Christian Ludewig from Hake	German administrative lawyer and Hanover State Minister	72
October 18	Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse	French geologist and naturalist	73
October 21	Helene Harlaß	German opera singer (soprano) and stage actress
October 22nd	Henry Lidgbird Ball	British navigator
October 22nd	Joachim Heinrich Campe	German writer, linguist, educator and publisher	72
October 22nd	Franz Krammer	Theologian, canon and university professor	69
October 22nd	Dennis Smelt	American politician	54
October 24th	Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli	Italian chemist	57
October 24th	Johann Heinrich Custer	Swiss yarn and linen dealer and founder of a bank	60
October 25	Joseph von Aichen	Austrian diplomat and lawyer	73
October 25	Étienne-Hubert de Cambacérès	French clergyman, Archbishop of Rouen and cardinal	62
October 26th	Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten	German pastor, professor and poet	60
28th of October	Abigail Adams	British-American wife of the second US President John Adams	73
28th of October	Henri Clarke d'Hunebourg	French general and statesman of Irish descent	53
30th of October	Eberhard Ernst Gotthard from Vegesack	Officer in the Swedish Army	55
October 31	Johann Vollmers	German businessman and Senator from Bremen	65

November

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
November 1st	Marie-Gabrielle Capet	French painter of classicism	57
November 1st	Christoph Gottlieb Steinbeck	German preacher, lawyer and Enlightenment writer	52
November 2	Samuel Romilly	British lawyer and politician	61
November 5th	Heinrich Friedrich Füger	German painter	66
November 6th	Malcolm Laing	Scottish politician, member of the House of Commons and writer
November 6th	Urs Viktor Oberlin	Swiss politician	71
November 7th	Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke	German geologist, cartographer and polymath
November 8th	Johann Jakob Gebauer	German publisher	73
November 9th	Adolph Franz Carl von Seckendorff	German court official	76
November 12th	Pierre-Joseph Boch	French entrepreneur	81
November 12th	John Syng Dorsey	American surgeon and professor	34
15th of November	Karl Alexander von der Goltz	Prussian colonel, Portuguese field marshal and Danish lieutenant general	79
15th of November	Salomon Hirzel	Swiss politician and historian	91
15th of November	Johann Heinrich Ziegler	Swiss chemist, doctor and entrepreneur	80
November 17th	Karl Gottlob from Anton	German lawyer, politician, historian and co-founder of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences	67
November 17th	Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz	German princess, king consort of Great Britain	74
November 18	Johann Friedrich Steenke	Initiator of the first sea rescue service
21st November	Leopold Nicolaus George von Zitzewitz	Prussian District Administrator of the Stolpescher Kreis	57
November 23	Ferdinand Franz Maria Bouget	Major General in the Naussau Cuirassier Regiment	77
November 24th	Johann Georg Volland	Lord Mayor of Sondershausen	55
November 26th	Joseph of Colloredo	Austrian Minister and General	83
November 26th	Salomon Landolt	Swiss painter and politician	76
November 26th	Carl Ludwig Ferdinand Pollmann	Justice of the peace, Prussian administrative officer, district administrator	47
November 29th	Johann Wilhelm Wolfgang Breithaupt	German Protestant theologian and song poet	80
November	Alexander Ferdinand of Lilien	General manager of the Reich and Dutch posts	76

December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age
3rd of December	Johann August Kriebel	Evangelical Lutheran theologian, school director and writer	83
December 8th	Johan Gottlieb Gahn	Swedish chemist	73
December 8th	Karl Ludwig Friedrich	Grand Duke of Baden	32
10th of December	Franz Anton of Baden	last president of the Breisgau estates	85
10th of December	Hubert Maurer	Austrian painter, draftsman and drawing teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna	80
December 14th	Johann Michael Hudtwalcker	Entrepreneur, educator	71
15th December	Joseph Ludwig Colmar	Bishop of Mainz	58
December 16	Dominik Konstantin Munich	German theologian and historian	55
December 17th	Abdallah I ibn Saud	Imam of the Wahhabis (1814-1818)
December 17th	Fernando Marquez de la Plata	Spanish colonial official and member of the first government junta in Chile
December 18th	Ludwig	Duke of Anhalt-Koethen	16
December 18th	Mayeur de Saint-Paul	French actor, director and playwright	60
19. December	Richard Winn	American politician
December 22	Friedrich Ludwig von Berlepsch	German nobleman, court judge, district and treasurer in the Kingdom of Hanover and publicist	69
December 22	Johann Alois Schneider	Catholic bishop in Saxony	66
24th of December	Maria Elisabeth of Saxony	royal princess of Poland, princess of Saxony, star cross order lady	82
25 December	Karl Friedrich Alexander von Görschen	German major general in the imperial army of the Habsburg monarchy	80
25 December	Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon	French revolutionary general, marshal and peer of France	64
25 December	Gebhard von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg	Statesman	55
December 26th	Johannes Lorenz Isenbiehl	German theologian	74
December 26th	Maria Isabella of Portugal	Queen of Spain and Infanta of Portugal	21st
December 26th	Clemens August von Westphalen	Imperial envoy and Minister of State for Kurmainz	65
December 27th	Lippmann Moses Büschenthal	German rabbi and writer
December 27th	Ernst Platner	German anthropologist, physician and philosopher	74
December 31	Jean-Pierre Duport	French cellist and composer	77
December 31	George Mumford	American politician

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
	Captain Pipe	Chief of the Lenni Lenape
	Captain Gallagher	irish robber
	Jacob Heymann	Head of the Dernau Synagogue
	Friedrich Holzach	Swiss entrepreneurs and politicians
	Insha Allah Khan	Indian poet
	Christian Koeck	Mainz draftsman, anatomy
	Pierre Lahoussaye	French violinist, composer and conductor
	Johann Friedrich Laves	German master builder in Kurhannover
	Ludwig Muller	German painter and gilder
	Ivan Pratsch	Czech composer
	Moritz Schmid	German provost
	Shiba Kōkan	Japanese painter and writer
	Maria Maximiliana from Stadium	Abbess of the Buchau women's monastery
	Johann Friedrich Vollmar	Classicist sculptor