Deaths Date 1804 | History by KabAstro

Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

Feb 6 English chemist, theologian and author who discovered oxygen and carbonated water, dies at 70

Feb 12 German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79

Mar 1 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, German organist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 63
Mar 4 Carl Leopold Röllig, German composer, glass-harmonica player, composer, and inventor (bowed pianos - orphica and xänorphika), dies at about 65 [birth date uncertain]
Mar 16 Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75
Mar 20 Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47
Mar 21 Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed) (b. 1772)
Mar 30 Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718)
Apr 3 Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest (b. 1727/1728)

Apr 9 French finance minister of Louis XVI whose decisions contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution, dies at 71

Apr 15 Charles Pichegru, French army general and royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon, strangles himself in prison at 43
Apr 28 Hans Gram, Danish composer, dies at 49
May 4 Simon Stijl, Frisian physician and writer, dies at 73
May 24 Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73
Jun 3 Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, Flemish violinist, conductor, and compose, dies at 35
Jun 16 Johann Adam Hiller, German composer, dies at 75
Jun 25 Georges Cadoudal, Breton politician and royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon, executed at 33

Jul 12 US Founding Father and 1st Secretary of the Treasury (1789-95), killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken at 49

Jul 17 Christian Ernst Graf, Dutch composer, dies at 80
Jul 25 William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies
Aug 17 Barbara Heck, Irish born North American colonist, organized 1st Methodist church in US in NY, dies (b. 1734)
Aug 20 Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sep 4 Richard Somers, American naval officer, killed during assault on Tripoli during First Barbary Wars at 25
Sep 29 Michael Hillegas, American merchant and first Treasurer of the United States (1775-89), dies at 75
Oct 2 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French inventor who designed & built 1st automobile, dies at 79
Oct 29 George Morland, English artist of rural landscapes, dies at 41
Nov 2 Armand-Gaston Camus, French revolutionary and Chairman of the Council of 500, dies at 64
Nov 5 Betje Wolff [Elizabeth Wolff-Bekker], Dutch novelist and poet (Sara Burgerhart; Willem Levend), dies at 66
Nov 14 Aagje Deken, Dutch novelist (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 62
Nov 19 Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian opera composer, dies at 75
Nov 23 Richard Graves, English writer (The Spiritual Quixote), dies at 89
Dec 19 Mary Bright, British PM Rockingham, dies