Famous Deaths for Year 1797

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Deaths 1 - 37 of 37

Jan 11th - Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62
Jan 13th - Elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederick II, dies at 81
Jan 30th - Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40
Feb 8th - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81
Feb 11th - Antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83
Feb 22nd - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
Feb 27th - Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61
Mar 1st - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36
Mar 2nd - Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79
Mar 19th - Philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58
Mar 26th - James Hutton, geologist, dies
Apr 3rd - Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66
Apr 12th - Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71
May 17th - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
May 25th - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
May 27th - Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36
May 30th - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48
Jun 17th - Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed
Jul 9th - Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68
Jul 11th - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
Jul 29th - Christoph Rheineck, composer, dies at 48
Aug 3rd - Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80
Aug 12th - Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73
Aug 22nd - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
Sep 10th - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
Sep 18th - Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies
Sep 23rd - Johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57
Oct 9th - Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna Latvia, dies at 77
Oct 10th - Carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 61
Oct 12th - Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84
Nov 16th - King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744) Reigns 1786-97
Nov 18th - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
Nov 29th - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723)
Dec 1st - Oliver Wolcott, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 71
Dec 11th - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
Dec 22nd - Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74
Dec 26th - John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72


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