Year 1753 (MDCCLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1753 [edit] January–June [edit] July–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births - February 12 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)
- February 20 – Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
- March 8 – William Roscoe, English writer (d. 1831)
- March 9 – Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
- March 26 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
- April 3 – Simon Willard, celebrated American horologist (d. 1848)
- May 8 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican Catholic priest and revolutionary (d. 1811)
- May 13 – Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
- July 9 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
- August 10 – Edmund Randolph, American politician (d. 1813)
- August 12 – Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (d. 1828)
- September 10 – John Soane, British architect (d. 1837)
- November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
- December 3 – Samuel Crompton, English inventor (d. 1827)
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[edit] Deaths - January 11 – Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (b. 1660)
- January 14 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
- January 23 – Anne, Duchess of Maine (b. 1676)
- February 16 – Giacomo Facco, composer (b. 1676)
- May 23 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, dramatist (b. 1705)
- June 7 – Archibald Cameron of Locheil, last Jacobite to be executed for treason (b. 1707)
- August 6 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
- August 19 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer (b. 1687)
- December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)
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