Famous Deaths In 1797

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

Jan 13 On this day in history elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederick II, dies at 81

Jan 30 In the year 1797 johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40

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

Feb 11 On this day in history antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83

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

Feb 27 In the year 1797 benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61

Mar 01 Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36 on this day in history.

Mar 02 In the year 1797 horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79

Mar 19 Philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58 in the year 1797.

Mar 26 In the year 1797 james Hutton, geologist, dies

Apr 03 Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66 in the year 1797.

Apr 12 Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.

May 17 Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719) died in the year 1797.

May 25 In the year 1797 death of john Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)

May 27 In the year 1797 francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36

May 30 Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48 on this day in history.

Jun 17 On this day in history death of aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed

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

Jul 11 Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740) died on this day in history.

Jul 29 In the year 1797 christoph Rheineck, composer, dies at 48

Aug 03 Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80 on this day in history.

Aug 12 In the year 1797 ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73

Aug 22 Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724) died in the year 1797.

Sep 10 In the year 1797 death of mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)

Sep 18 In the year 1797 louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies

Sep 23 Johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.

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 in the year 1797.

Nov 18 Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719) died in the year 1797.

Nov 29 Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723) died in the year 1797.

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

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Jan 04 Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map) was born in the year 1797.

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 in the year 1797.

Jan 30 In the year 1797 birth of edwin Vose Sumner, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863

Jan 31 Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Aust, composer (Unfinished Symphony) was born in the year 1797.

Feb 06 In the year 1797 birth of joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs

Feb 15 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway) was born in the year 1797.