Year 1760 (MDCCLX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1760 [edit] January–June [edit] July–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing events [edit] Births - January 3 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
- March 1 – François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (suicide) (d. 1794)
- March 10 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (d. 1828)
- March 28 – Thomas Clarkson, British Abolitionist (d. 1846)
- April 30 – Joseph Souham, French general (d. 1837)
- May 10 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1826)
- May 28 – Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais, French politician and general (d. 1794)
- May 29 – Charlotte Slottsberg, Swedish ballerina
- June 12 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1797)
- August 22 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
- September 14 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
- October 27 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
- October – Fredrique Löwen, stage actress (d. 1813)
- December 17 – Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier (d. 1827)
- date unknown – Louise Françoise Contat, French actress (d. 1813)
- probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (d. 1802)
[edit] Deaths - April 10 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)
- May 5 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)
- May 9 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
- May 15 – Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
- May 22 – Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
- June 13 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
- July 13 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy (b. 1696)
- September 11 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
- October 15 – Nicolas d'Assas, a captain of the French regiment of Auvergne (b. 1733)
- October 25 – King George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
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