* 1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar ( b. 1691 )

* 1761 – Yevstigney Fomin, Russian composer ( d. 1800 )

* 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

* 1711 – Edward Boscawen, English admiral ( d. 1761 )

Bertrand Andrieu ( November 4, 1761 – December 10, 1822 ) was a French engraver of medals from Bordeaux.

The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem in a paper titled " An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances ".

* 1761 – Seven Years ' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.

* 1761 – Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures ( Madame Tussauds ) ( d. 1850 )

* 1830 – Pope Pius VIII ( b. 1761 )

* 1761 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer ( d. 1831 )

* 1761 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist ( d. 1835 )

* 1761 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander ( d. 1818 )

* 1761 – Erik Tulindberg, Finnish composer ( d. 1814 )

* 1761 – Jacob Kimball, Jr., American composer ( d. 1826 )

* 1714 – Gioacchino Conti, Italian soprano castrato ( d. 1761 )

* 1761 – Charles Pichegru, French general ( d. 1804 )

* George Clinton ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1686 – 1761 ), British colonial governor of New York

Other notable writers in the continental tradition include Jan Potocki ( 1761 – 1815 ).

Scottish politics in the late 18th century was dominated by the Whigs, with the benign management of Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll ( 1682 – 1761 ), who was in effect the " viceroy of Scotland " from the 1720s until his death in 1761.

Hanover was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, and in 1765 – 1766 its first inhabitants arrived, the majority from Connecticut.

Image: SakaiHoitsuAutumnFlowersandMoon. JPG | Rimpa school, " Autumn Flowers and Moon ", Sakai Hoitsu, ( 1761 – 1828 ), Japanese

* 1761 – Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian priest and poet ( d. 1821 )

* 1761 – Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer ( d. 1820 )

* 1761 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( b. 1689 )

* August 12 – Charles Nerinckx, founder of the Sisters of Loretto ( b. 1761 )

* August 20 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician ( d. 1761 )

* August 19 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

* August 17 – Clemens August of Bavaria ( d. 1761 )

Charles revived the Family Compact with France on 15 August 1761 and joined in the Seven Years ' War against Britain in 1762 ; the reformist policies he had espoused in Naples were pursued with similar energy in Spain, where he completely overhauled the cumbersome bureaucracy of the state.

Clemens August of Bavaria () ( 17 August 1700 – 6 February 1761 ) was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty of Bavaria and Archbishop-Elector of Cologne.

Samuel Richardson ( 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761 ) was an 18th-century English writer and printer.

A Royal warrant of August 18, 1761, stipulated that an all blue triple-tailed flag to be used by the Archipelago fleet, an amphibious division of small ships and gunboats, patrolling the inner archipelago along the Swedish coast line.

Belgian priest Charles Nerinckx ( 2 October 1761, Herfelingen – 12 August 1824 ) and three Kentucky frontier women founded the Sisters of Loretto, the first native American order of Roman Catholic nuns, in 1812.

The river opened to navigation in stages over the next three years, with a great celebration being held at Northampton on 7 August 1761 when the work was completed.

Johann Matthias Gesner ( 9 April 1691 – 3 August 1761 ) was a German classical scholar and schoolmaster.

He married ( 13 August 1717 ) Elizabeth Jenkinson ( died 2 June 1761 ), a widow, of Boston, Lincolnshire.

* August 25-Jean-Louis Laya, dramatist ( born 1761 )

By the end of August 1761, a party of escorts departed for Germany to conduct Princess Charlotte to England: the Duchess of Ancaster, the Duchess of Hamilton, both Ladies of the Bedchamber ; Mrs. Tracey, Bedchamber Woman ; Earl Harcourt, Proxy for the King ; and General Graeme.

Pierre Claude François Daunou ( 18 August 1761 – 20 June 1840 ) was a French statesman and historian of the French Revolution and Empire.

* August 19-Samuel Richardson, English novelist ( died 1761 )

* August 6 – Antonín Vranický, Bohemian violinist and composer ( b. 1761 )

On August 7, 1761 on Wilbraham Mountain a young man named Timothy Merrick was bitten by a rattlesnake.

Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin ( January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849 ) was a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury.

In her he had an important share in the reduction of Belle Île in June 1761, and of Havana in August 1762.

* August 20-Thomas Simpson, English mathematician ( died 1761 )

Janet McFadzean was buried in Crosbie cemetery in 1761 and the front of her tombstone reads: Here lyes the corps of Janet McFadzean, Spous of William McFadzean, Quarter-Master Sergean in Lovetenan General Homs Regiment of Sol., who died August 22, 1761, aged 27 years.