Necrology 1820

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This is a list of famous people who died in 1820 . 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 1st Johann Friedrich Gottlob von Brause Lutheran theologian, Superintendent von Freiberg 56
January 4th Daniel Albert Albrecht Ernsting German engraver and draftsman
January 4th Philip Key American politician
January 5th Étienne Lauchery French dancer, choreographer and ballet master 87
January 5th Karol Sierakowski Polish general in the Kościuszko uprising
6th January Gottlieb Hünerwadel Swiss politician, industrialist and officer 75
January 8th Demasduit Newfoundland Indian, one of the last of the Beothuk people
January 9th Ferdinand Jagemann German painter and brother of the actress Karoline Jagemann 39
11th January Friedrich Wilhelm von Pelet Prussian major general 74
January 14th Wilhelmine Karoline of Denmark Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel and Electress of Hessen 72
January 14th Joseph Anton von Simbschen Imperial-Austrian Feldzeugmeister 73
15. January Theodor von Kretschmann German politician, lawyer and publicist 57
January 16 Paul Wolfgang Merkel Kaufmann, first member of the city of Nuremberg in the Bavarian state parliament 63
January 17th Daniel Wyttenbach Swiss philologist 73
January 19th Charles-Louis Clérisseau French architect
January 19th Abraham Ten Broeck American businessman, militia officer and politician
January 19th August Nicolaus Carl von Kardorff German officer in the Danish service 63
January 20th Friedrich V. Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg 71
January 20th John Nicholson American lawyer and politician
21th January Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot de Beauvois French scientist 67
22nd of January Karl Anton von Bila Prussian major general and chief of the Magdeburg fusilier brigade 78
January 23 Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn fourth son of King George III. of Great Britain and Ireland and the father of Queen Victoria 52
January 24th Diego Innico Caracciolo Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church 60
January 25 Joseph Franz Weigl First cellist in Prince Esterházy's orchestra 79
January 27th Theodor Grünberger Baroque composer 63
January 27th Ephraim Joseph Hirschfeld German-Jewish mystic of the Enlightenment period, Kabbalist and active Freemason
January 28th Ádam Pálóczi Horváth Hungarian folk music collector, poet and composer 59
January 29th George III King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 81
January 30th Josepha Barbara Auernhammer Austrian pianist and composer 61
31 January Christian Friedrich Sintenis German Protestant theologian, writer of edification and storyteller 69

February

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
February 1st Friedrich Rühs German historian for Scandinavian and Germanic history 38
3 February Gia Long Vietnamese emperor, first emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1820) 57
February 4th Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich Fielitz the Elder German medic 70
February 5th Tadeusz Brzozowski 19. General of the Societas Jesu 70
February 5th William Ellery American politician, Founding Father of the United States 92
February 6th Giovanni Battista Grazioli Italian organist and classical composer 73
February 8 Justus von Gruner Prussian Privy Council of State and high-ranking statesman 42
February 8 Wilhelm Ludwig von Puttkamer Prussian major general and knight of the order Pour le Mérite 80
February 10th Anna Elisabeth Luise of Brandenburg-Schwedt Princess of Brandenburg-Schwedt, by marriage Princess of Prussia 81
February 11th Karl von Fischer German architect 37
February 11th Heinrich Johann Otto König German lawyer and professor 71
February 12th Guillaume-Albert Teniers Flemish composer and classical violinist 71
13th February Peleg Arnold American lawyer and politician 68
13th February Karl Ferdinand von Langen Prussian major general, commander of the Saarlouis fortress 57
14th of February Charles Ferdinand d'Artois Son of the future French king Charles X. 42
February 15th Johann August von Harroy de Techreaux royal Prussian lieutenant general and finally commander of the engineering corps 66
February 15th Joseph Cambon French politician 63
February 16 Georg Carl von Döbeln Swedish general 61
February 16 Nikolaus Michael Oppel German herpetologist and animal painter 37
February 17th Franz Regis Clet Missionary in China 71
February 23 Alojzy Feliński Polish writer
February 26th Maria Teresa de Vallabriga Consort of the Infante Luis de Borbón y Farnesio 60
February 29th Johann Joachim Eschenburg German literary historian 76
February 29th Friedrich Wilhelm von Götzen the Younger Prussian lieutenant general, governor of the province of Silesia 53
February 29th Johann Christian Rosenmüller German surgeon, anatomist and university professor
February 29th Hermann Schlichthorst German theologian, educator and historian 53

March

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
1st March David Walker American politician 56
3 March Heinrich Ernst Bornemann German lawyer 39
4th of March Hermann Doormann German council syndicate and diplomat 67
4th of March Samuel Gustaf Ermine Swedish geologist, entrepreneur and cartographer 75
5. March Arnoldine Wolf German poet 51
7th March Ludwig Engelbert Duke of Arenberg 69
8th of March Jean-Melchior d'Abadie French military and politician 72
9th March Christian Balthasar von Hartmannsdorff Judge at the Greifswald court 74
March 10th Joan Antoni Desvalls i d'Ardena Catalan scientist 79
March 11 Benjamin West English painter 81
March 12th Ernst Maria Ferdinand von Bissingen last auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Constance 69
March 12th Alexander MacKenzie Scottish explorer in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company
March, 15 Klemens Maria Hofbauer Austrian preacher, member of the Redemptorist Order and patron saint of Vienna 68
March 16 Johann Immanuel Bossert Mayor of Tübingen 77
17. March Friedrich von Graffen German lawyer and mayor 74
March 21st Carl von Isenburg-Birstein German prince 53
March 21st Ambrosius Eichhorn German Benedictine, priest and writer 61
March 22 Stephen Decatur junior United States Navy officer 41
March 24th Jean-Baptiste-René Robinet French natural philosopher 84
26th of March Charles Blagden British physician and naturalist 71
26th of March Jean-Étienne Despréaux French composer and actor 71
27th of March Gerhard von Kügelgen German painter 48
28th March Josef Speckbacher Tyrolean freedom fighter 52
March 29 Salomé de Gélieu Swiss teacher and educator (governess) 77
March 30 Hans Georg Alexander Friedrich von Köller Prussian manor owner and senior official 67
March 30 Heinrich von Zawadzky Prussian major general 62
March 31 Johann Friedrich Krause German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and general superintendent in Weimar 49
March 31 Johann Volkmar Sickler German pomologist
March Johann Christian Partzschefeldt German draftsman and university drawing teacher 63

April

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
April 1st Isaac Milner British mathematician and inventor 70
4. April Christian Ludwig Schübler Mayor of Heilbronn 66
4. April Thiery de Vaux Austrian Feldzeugmeister and fortress builder 71
April 5th Hendrik Constantijn Cras Dutch lawyer and librarian 81
7th of April Carl Olof Cronstedt Finland-Swedish naval officer 63
April 8th Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk Scottish philanthropist 48
April 8th John Wentworth British governor of two colonies 82
9th April Angelo Anelli Italian librettist and writer 58
April 13th Johan Ludvig Mansa Danish gardener and garden designer, author of a garden book 79
April 14th Levi Lincoln American lawyer and politician 70
April 19th Christoph Friedrich Elsner German medic 71
April 19th Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff Prussian lieutenant general and diplomat 68
20th of April Alessandro Mattei Cardinal of the Catholic Church 76
20th of April Arthur Young English agronomist and publicist 78
April 25 Patrick Colquhoun Scottish businessman, statistician, politician and diplomat 75
April 25 Constantin François Volney French traveler, orientalist and philosopher of history 63
April 25 Johann Peter Bucher German legal scholar 79
26th of April Christian Zais German architect and urban planner of classicism 50
April 27 Johann Martin Fischer Austrian sculptor 79
April 29 Otto von Arnim German government official 34

May

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
1st of May Lorenzo Litta Italian clergyman, cardinal to the curia 64
10th of May Matthäus Stegmayer Austrian playwright, composer, librettist, music publisher and actor 49
May 11th Ursula Wolf-Zellweger Member of the Zellweger family from Trogen 84
May 14th Paul Struck composer 43
17th of May Vincenzo Brenna Italian-Russian architect and painter
17th of May Christian Hieronymus Esmarch German civil servant 67
17th of May Carl Philipp von Kropff German forester 71
May 20th Karl Ludwig Sand radical fraternity 24
May 21 Johann Chiossich Austrian soldier with 110 years of service 116
May 21 Jakob Moralt German musician 39
May 24th Jørgen Frantz Hammershaimb Løgmaður of the Faroe Islands (1805–1816) 52
25. May Eric Ruuth Swedish count, politician and marshal 73
May 26 Arnold Robens Secret scribe of the Jülich knighthood 61
May 29th Christian Konrad Wilhelm von Dohm German politician and writer 68
31. May Friedrich von Coelln German politician, economist and author

June

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
June 1st August Ferdinand Bernhardi German linguist and writer 50
3rd of June Winthrop Sargent American politician and governor of the Mississippi Territory (1798–1801) 67
6th of June Henry Grattan Irish politician 73
June 7th Pierre Louis Louvel Assassin of Charles Ferdinand de Bourbon 36
June 9th Wilhelmine of Lichtenau Beloved of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia 66
June 9th Wilhelmine of Prussia Inheritance holder of the Netherlands 68
June 9th Carl August von Stutterheim Prussian major general 60
June 10th Franz Heinrich Bispink German writer 70
June 13th Johann Michael Bach III German composer, son of Johann Elias Bach 74
15th June Adam Weisweiler German cabinet maker and cabinet maker 73
18th of June Johann Heinrich Stein German banker 47
June 19th Joseph Banks English naturalist 77
20th June Manuel Belgrano Argentinian lawyer, politician and general 50
June 21st Caspar Oechsle German imperial prelate, last abbot of the imperial abbey of Salem 68
June 21st Alexis Thérèse Petit French physicist 28
23rd June Luise Karoline von Hochberg second wife of the Margrave and later Grand Duke Karl Friedrich von Baden 52
25th June Aaron Kitchell American politician 75
June 28th Joachim Friedrich Gotthelf von Zezschwitz Saxon general of the cavalry 80
June 30th Maurice Duplay French carpenter and Jacobin 83
June 30th Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart Prince Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna 90
June Philippe Etienne La Fosse French veterinarian 81

July

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
2nd July Peter Dollond English optician 90
2nd July Johann Gottlieb Wolstein German medic 82
July 6th Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly Austrian publisher and cartographer 53
7th of July Carl Gotthilf Tilebein German merchant and shipowner 60
10th of July William Wyatt Bibb American politician 38
July 11th Frederick Traugott Pursh German-Canadian botanist and gardener 46
16th of July Anton Schneider Lawyer, freedom fighter, commander in chief of the Vorarlberg people's uprising 42
17th July Georg Prochaska Czech-Austrian medic 71
July 18th George Hancock American politician 66
July 28th Filippo Gragnani Italian composer and guitarist 51
July 28th Giuseppe Thaon di Revel Piedmontese general, first in command of the Carabinieri 63
30th July Ewald Georg von Massow Prussian minister of state and governor for Silesia 66

August

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
August 2nd Maria Carolina Benda Singer, pianist, composer and chamber singer at the court of Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
3rd August Jakob Friedrich von Holtzendorff Prussian lieutenant general, chief of the cuirassier regiment No. 9 79
6th of August Friederike of Prussia Princess of Hanover and Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, by marriage Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and Duchess of York and Albany 53
6th of August Johann Georg Schmidt German Lutheran clergyman 56
6th of August Anton Wranitzky Austrian composer 59
August 7th Elisa Bonaparte Sister of Napoleon Bonaparte 43
August 9 Sparrman is different Swedish doctor, botanist and ornithologist 72
August 10 Johann Heinrich Dambeck Austrian writer and university professor 46
August 11th Peter Josef Cramer from Clausagh Official in Cologne 67
August 11th Charles Drayton American settlers in the thirteen colonies 76
August 11th János Lavotta Hungarian violinist and composer 56
12. August Nathaniel Pearce British adventurer, African traveler and travel writer 41
August 14th Martin Neumann Member of Parliament for the Duchy of Nassau 59
August 16 Johann Georg Scheffner German writer 84
August 24th Joseph von Bretfeld Bohemian lawyer and university professor 90
August 24th Ion Budai-Deleanu Romanian writer, historian, linguist, Romanist and Romanist 60
26th of August Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu German businessman and entrepreneur in Braunschweig
August 27 Christian Philipp Wolff German sculptor 48
August 28th Karl August Stupid Secret finance councilor, scientist, author and namesake of the Blödit crystal 47
August 28th Anton Kraft Bohemian cellist and classical composer 67
August 31 László Ungvárnémeti Tóth Hungarian poet 32

September

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
September 2nd Jiaqing Emperor of China 59
September 2nd Home Riggs Popham British naval officer and politician 57
September 3 Benjamin Latrobe American architect of the United States Capitol 56
7th of September Ignaz Liebel Austrian philologist, writer and professor in Vienna 66
13.september Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Hereditary Princess of Lübeck and Princess of Holstein-Oldenburg by marriage 20th
September 14th François-Joseph Lefebvre Marshal of France 64
13.september Johann Josef Nehr Bohemian monastery doctor and patron of Marienbad 68
September 15th Giovanni Battista Quarantotti Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church 86
16th September Marie Bigot French pianist and composer 34
17th of September Giovanni Francesco Compagnoni Marefoschi Italian Curia Bishop 62
September 18 Giovanni Devoti Italian clergyman, Bishop of Anagni and Curia Bishop 76
September 19th Johann Georg Meusel German historian, lexicographer and bibliographer 77
21st September Joseph Rodman Drake American poet 25th
21st September Georg Heinrich von Müller University professor and prelate and general superintendent of Heilbronn 70
September 22 Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin German draftsman and engraver 59
September 23rd Friedrich Leopold Abel German violinist, pianist, music teacher and composer
September 23rd François-Christophe Kellermann French general, peer and marshal of France 85
September 26th Daniel Boone American pioneer and explorer 85
September 27th Andreas von Below Livonian country marshal 57
September 28th Anton Maria Karl von Belderbusch Lord Mayor in Bonn 62

October

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
October 3 Ludovit Václav Lachnit Czech composer 74
5th October Augustin Barruel French Jesuit and conspiracy theorist 79
5th October Claudius James Rich British orientalist and traveler, resident (roughly equivalent to a consul) of the East India Company in Baghdad 34
8th October Henri Christophe King of Northern Haiti (1811-1820) 53
October 10th Wilson Cary Nicholas American politician 59
October 10th Uragami Gyokudō Japanese painter, musician and poet
October 11th James Keir Scottish chemist and industrialist industrialist 85
October 14th Johann Daniel Ramberg German architect and painter 87
15th October Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg Austrian field marshal from the Schwarzenberg family 49
October, 16th Patritius Benedict Room Catholic clergyman 68
October 17th Alexander von der Schulenburg-Emden German landowner 58
October 19th Samuel Hämmerli Swiss leveler
the 20th of October Franz Joseph Bodmann German lawyer, historian, librarian and historian 66
23rd October Christian Gottfried Becker German textile manufacturer 49
October 25 John Bacon American politician 82
28th of October Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm von Bredow German landowner 57
October 29th Tobias Hempel German lawyer, councilor, bailiff and mayor 82
30th of October Christian Friedrich Hoffmann German mathematician, educator and archaeologist

November

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
November 1st Pierre Martin French admiral 68
November 2 Vincenc Tuček Czech composer 47
November 4th Johannes Künzle Swiss politician 70
November 5th William Richardson Davie American politician, governor of North Carolina 64
November 6th Carl Ludwig Murtfeldt German engineer captain, architect and cartographer
November 13th Karl Bellino German orientalist and interpreter, secretary of the East India Company in Baghdad 29
November 16 Jean Lambert Tallien French revolutionary 53
November 18 Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay German poet 82
November 19th Franz Anton Dreher Austrian entrepreneur 84
20th November James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury English diplomat 74
22nd of November Jakob Placidus old mother Austrian painter 40
November 26th Duncan Stewart American politician
November 27th Joseph-Philibert Desblanc French engineer and inventor of a steamship
November 29th Adolph von Danckelmann German adventurer 41
November 29th Joseph of Smola Austrian officer 56
30th of November Johann Jakob Cella German lawyer 64

December

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
2. December Johann Jürgen Busch German sculptor
2. December Marie-Victoire Lemoine French painter of classicism
December 4th Franz Jakob Schwanthaler German sculptor 60
6th of December Karl Christian Tittmann German Protestant theologian 76
December 7th Denis Decrès French admiral and politician of the First Empire 59
9th of December William Tierney Robarts British politician and businessman
10th of December Johann Samuel Klein Historian and theologian 72
10th of December Carl von Plotho Prussian lieutenant colonel of the infantry as well as military historian and writer 40
11th December Franz Joseph Salffekt Engraver and medalist 58
12th of December Friedrich Daniel Wilhelm von Irwing Prussian Major General and Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 3 80
13th December Ferenc Széchényi Hungarian nobleman and politician 66
December 17th Samuel S. Conner American politician
December 17th Nathaniel Hazard American politician
20th of December Jesse Slocumb American politician
December 22 Vincenzo Chiarugi Italian doctor 61
23rd of December Adamson Tannehill American politician 70
25 December James Burrill American politician 48
December 26th Joseph Fouché French politician 61
December 27th Thomas Gage, 7th Baronet British botanist 39
December 27th Abraham Tictin Chief rabbi in Breslau 56
December 28th Johann Hartmann Christoph Graef German Protestant theologian 76
December 29th Konrad Erckenbrecht Mayor in Eppingen 69
December 29th Pauline Regent of the Principality of Lippe. Founder of the first day care center in Germany 51

Date unknown

Day Surname Profession known as Age receipt
José Pinto Alcoforado de Azevedo e Sousa Portuguese governor of Portuguese Timor
Paul Philipp Barraud English watchmaker
Jean Duplessis-Bertaux French draftsman, etcher and painter
Stubbins Ffirth American doctor
Georg Friedrich Grohe German businessman
John Haverfield English gardener and landscape architect
Mary Hoare English painter
Aloys Keßler German engraver
Manuel Lisa Spanish fur trader in the USA
James Lloyd American politician
Johann Friedrich von Luxburg Palatine of Zweibrücken and Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Privy Councilor and Oberschenk
Pierre Denys de Montfort French naturalist and malacologist
Dildar Ali Nasirabadi Indian twelve Shiite scholar and Ayatollah
Nguyễn you Vietnamese poet and writer
Carlo Rossetti European merchant and consul in Cairo
Henri Salembier French painter, draftsman and ornament engraver
John Stewart American politician
Johann Conrad Ulmer German etcher and engraver