Famous Deaths Happened In 1797

Jan 11 Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62 in the year 1797.  

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

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 On this day in history 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 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 in the year 1797.  

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 On this day in history death of michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)  

May 25 John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719) died in the year 1797.  

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 In the year 1797 edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68  

Jul 11 Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740) died in the year 1797.  

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

Aug 03 In the year 1797 jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Sep 23 In the year 1797 johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57  

Oct 09 Elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77 in the year 1797.  

Oct 10 In the year 1797 carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 61  

Oct 12 On this day in history pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84  

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

Nov 18 On this day in history 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 In the year 1797 oliver Wolcott, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 71  

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Jan 04 In the year 1797 birth of wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map)  

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

Jan 12 Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 22 Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826) was born in the year 1797.  

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 in the year 1797.  

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

Feb 15 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway) was born on this day in history.