Famous Deaths Happened In 1797

Jan 11 In the year 1797 francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62  

Jan 13 In the year 1797 elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederick II, dies at 81  

Jan 30 On this day in history johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40  

Feb 08 In the year 1797 johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81  

Feb 11 Antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83 in the year 1797.  

Feb 22 In the year 1797 death of karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)  

Feb 27 Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61 in the year 1797.  

Mar 01 Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36 in the year 1797.  

Mar 02 Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79 in the year 1797.  

Mar 19 In the year 1797 philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58  

Mar 26 On this day in history james Hutton, geologist, dies  

Apr 03 On this day in history nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66  

Apr 12 Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1797.  

May 17 Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719) died on this day in history.  

May 25 On this day in history death of john Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)  

May 27 On this day in history francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36  

May 30 In the year 1797 carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48  

Jun 17 Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed died on this day in history.  

Jul 09 Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68 in the year 1797.  

Jul 11 In the year 1797 death of ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)  

Jul 29 Christoph Rheineck, composer, dies at 48 on this day in history.  

Aug 03 Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80 in the year 1797.  

Aug 12 On this day in history ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73  

Aug 22 Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724) died on this day in history.  

Sep 10 On this day in history death of mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)  

Sep 18 Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies in the year 1797.  

Sep 23 Johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57 in the year 1797.  

Oct 09 On this day in history elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77  

Oct 10 Carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 61 on this day in history.  

Oct 12 Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84 in the year 1797.  

Nov 16 Frederik Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97), dies at 53 on this day in history.  

Nov 18 In the year 1797 death of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)  

Nov 29 On this day in history death of samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723)  

Dec 01 On this day in history oliver Wolcott, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 71  

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Jan 04 Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 10 In the year 1797 birth of annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)  

Jan 12 On this day in history birth of gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)  

Jan 22 Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 30 Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 was born in the year 1797.  

Jan 31 Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Aust, composer (Unfinished Symphony) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 06 Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs was born in the year 1797.  

Feb 15 In the year 1797 birth of henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway)