Famous Deaths Happened In 1797

Jan 11 On this day in history francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62  

Jan 13 Elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederick II, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

Jan 30 Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40 in the year 1797.  

Feb 08 Johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81 in the year 1797.  

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

Feb 22 Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720) died on this day in history.  

Feb 27 On this day in history benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61  

Mar 01 On this day in history juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36  

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

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

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

Apr 03 In the year 1797 nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66  

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

May 17 In the year 1797 death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)  

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

May 27 Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36 in the year 1797.  

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

Jun 17 Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed died in the year 1797.  

Jul 09 On this day in history edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68  

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

Jul 29 Christoph Rheineck, composer, dies at 48 in the year 1797.  

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

Aug 12 Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

Aug 22 In the year 1797 death of dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)  

Sep 10 Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759) died in the year 1797.  

Sep 18 Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies on this day in history.  

Sep 23 On this day in history johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57  

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

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

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

Nov 16 In the year 1797 frederik Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97), dies at 53  

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

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 in the year 1797.  

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

Jan 10 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848) was born in the year 1797.  

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 Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs was born on this day in history.  

Feb 15 On this day in history birth of henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway)