Year 1761 (MDCCLXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1761 [edit] January–June [edit] July–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing events [edit] Births - January 17 – James Hall, Scottish geologist (d. 1832)
- February 1 – Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836)
- February 16 – Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804)
- March 6 – Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French general (d. 1828)
- May 3 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
- October 21 – Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, French painter and cartographer (d. 1824)
- October 27 – Matthew Baillie, Scottish physician and pathologist (d. 1823)
- November 4 – Bertrand Andrieu, French engraver of medals (d. 1822)
- November 13 – John Moore, British general (d. 1809)
- November 20 – Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
- December 1 – Marie Tussaud, French wax modeller (d. 1850)
- December 27 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (d. 1818)
- June 3 – Henry Shrapnel, British Army officer and inventor (d. 1842)
[edit] Deaths - January 4 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (b. 1677)
- January 10 – Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
- February 1 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (b. 1682)
- April 4 – Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
- April 9 – William Law, English minister (b. 1686)
- April 15 – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
- April 17 – Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (b. c. 1702)
- May 14 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
- June 2 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
- July 4 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
- July 9 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (b. 1704)
- July 13 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
- August 3 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
- September 8 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
- November 30 – John Dollond, English optician (b. 1706)
- December 23 – Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy (b. c. 1725)
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