Famous Deaths for Year 1747
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Months in Year 1747: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 23 of 23
Jan 16th - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
Jan 19th - Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies
Feb 1st - Jacobus E J Capitein, Dutch slave/vicar/merchant, dies
Mar 9th - Jacob Campo Weyerman, S Neth adventurer/painter/writer, dies at 69
Mar 16th - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
Mar 23rd - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
Apr 2nd - Johann J Dillenius, German botanist, dies at 63
Apr 7th - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676)
Apr 9th - Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England
May 9th - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
May 28th - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
May 31st - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
Jun 6th - Jean Barriere, composer, dies
Jun 19th - Alessandro Marcello, composer, dies at 77
Jun 19th - Nadir, shah of Persia (1736-47), murdered
Jul 9th - Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76
Jul 16th - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, painter/etcher, dies
Aug 8th - Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)
Sep 15th - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer, dies at 59
Oct 10th - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
Nov 17th - Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79
Dec 2nd - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)
Dec 11th - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. ca. 1675)
