Famous Deaths Happened In 1797

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

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 In the year 1797 antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83  

Feb 22 Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720) died in the year 1797.  

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

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

Mar 02 Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

Mar 19 On this day in history philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58  

Mar 26 James Hutton, geologist, dies on this day in history.  

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

Apr 12 On this day in history josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71  

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

May 25 On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

May 30 Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48 in the year 1797.  

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 On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Sep 10 Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759) died on this day in history.  

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 In the year 1797 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 on this day in history.  

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 In the year 1797 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 in the year 1797.  

Jan 10 On this day in history birth of annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)  

Jan 12 Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873) was born in the year 1797.  

Jan 22 In the year 1797 birth of maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)  

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 on this day in history.  

Feb 06 On this day in history 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.