What Happened in September 1719

Famous Birthdays

  • Sep 3 Ferdinand Zellbell the younger, Swedish composer and co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1780)
  • Sep 27 Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician, born in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1800)

Famous Deaths

  • Sep 7 John Harris, English writer (Lexicon Technicum, first English Encyclopedia) (b. c. 1666)
  • Sep 19 Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant (Dean of Brussels Guild accessed of involvement in uprising), executed at 59
  • Sep 19 Jan Weenix, Dutch painter, buried
  • Sep 19 Joachim Tielke, German violin maker, dies at 77
  • Sep 21 Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer dies at 72
  • Sep 27 George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)