Notable Deaths - 1794
1794 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 8 |
Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720) |
Jan 10 |
Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754) |
Jan 16 |
Edward Gibbon, English historian (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), dies in London at 56 |
Jan 31 |
Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711) |
Mar 4 |
Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21 |
Mar 28 |
Marquis de Condorcet, French enlightenment philosopher, is murdered or commits suicide in prison at 50 |
Mar 29 |
Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50 |
Apr 5 |
Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34 |
Apr 8 |
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, mathematician dies |
Apr 13 |
Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741) |
Apr 18 |
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714) |
Apr 23 |
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721) |
Apr 27 |
William Jones, British Orientalist/jurist, dies at 47 |
May 6 |
Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59 |
May 8 |
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined |
May 10 |
Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30 |
Jun 8 |
G A Borger, writer, dies |
Jun 8 |
Gottfried August Bürger, The Outrageous Baron Munchausen |
Jun 14 |
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718) |
Jun 18 |
James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721) |
Jun 19 |
Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 62 |
Jun 27 |
Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711) |
Jun 27 |
Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715) |
Jul 2 |
Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65 |
Jul 7 |
Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51 |
Jul 17 |
Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45 |
Jul 17 |
John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718) |
Jul 22 |
Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer, dies at 59 |
Jul 25 |
Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies |
Jul 25 |
Friedrich von der Trenck, Die Gruft |
Jul 28 |
Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39 |
Jul 28 |
Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined |
Aug 6 |
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714) |
Aug 11 |
Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 72 |
Aug 14 |
George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies |
Sep 4 |
John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724) |
Sep 15 |
Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725) |
Sep 25 |
Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718) |
Oct 12 |
James Lyon, composer, dies at 59 |
Oct 20 |
James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64 |
Nov 3 |
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715) |
Nov 14 |
Pieter Nieuwland, prodigy/"Dutch Newton", dies at 30 |
Nov 15 |
John Witherspoon, president of the College of New Jersey, dies at 71 |
Nov 17 |
Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738) |
Nov 22 |
John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724) |
Nov 28 |
Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prussian/US inspector-general of Washingtons army, dies at 64 |
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