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Famous People Who Died in 1741

  • Feb 13 Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer/music theorist, dies at about 80
  • Mar 17 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright and poet (Sacred Odes & Songs), dies at 69
  • Mar 31 Pieter Burman the Elder, Dutch classical scholar, dies at 72
  • Apr 28 Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and statesman, dies at 73
  • May 25 Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German Protestant theologian, dies at 80
  • Jun 22 Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Belgian composer, dies at 38
  • Jul 3 Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen consort of Sardinia (1737-41), dies at 29

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Jul 28 Italian Baroque composer (The Four Seasons), dies at 63

  • Jul 30 Wierich PL count von DauWirich Philipp von Daun, Austrian nobleman and field marshal, Viceroy of Naples, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, dies at 71
  • Aug 4 Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
  • Aug 31 Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist, dies at 59
  • Nov 20 Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat, Cardinal and poet, dies at 80
  • Nov 24 Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
  • Dec 14 Charles Rollin, French historian, dies at 80
  • Dec 19 Vitus Bering, Danish navigator and explorer (explored Bering Strait and Alaska coast), dies after being shipwrecked at 60