Famous People Who Died in 1800

Jan 9 Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
Jan 10 Johan Wikmanson, composer, dies at 46
Jan 23 Edward Rutledge, US attorney (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 50
Feb 23 Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)
Mar 2 Christian Friedrich Schale, composer, dies at 86
Mar 3 Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, German composer, dies at 64
Mar 9 Dominique Della-Maria, composer, dies at 30
Mar 29 Marc René, Marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer, dies at 85
Apr 18 John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84
Apr 18 Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies at 71
Apr 25 William Cowper, English pre-romantic poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68
Apr 30 John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46
May 7 Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel, Dutch Grand Pensionary of Zeeland and Holland (1787-95), dies at 64
May 7 Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72

May 18 Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
May 19 French Bosbeeck, veterinarian/robber, hanged
Jun 7 Willem Arnold Alting, Dutch governor-general of Dutch East Indies (1780-97), dies at 75
Jun 10 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
Jun 14 Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (b. 1768)
Jun 14 Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general, dies at 47
Jun 20 Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician, dies at 80
Jul 23 John Rutledge, American 2nd Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 60
Aug 3 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, German composer, dies at 63
Sep 26 William Billings, American hymn composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53
Sep 29 Michael Denis, Austrian poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist, dies at 71
Oct 7 Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
Oct 28 Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (major general during the American Revolutionary War), dies at 72
Dec 19 Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66
Dec 27 Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (b. 1718)