* 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 )

In mid-January 1761, a group of over 50 merchants represented by James Otis, petitioned the court to have hearings on the issue.

* James Charles Pitt ( 1761 – 1781 )

* June 23 – James Hall, Scottish geologist ( b. 1761 )

In 1761 James Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic written by Ossian ( Oisín ) in the Scottish Gaelic language on the subject of " Fingal " ( Fionnghall meaning " white stranger ": it is suggested that Macpherson rendered the name as Fingal through a misapprehension of the name which in old Gaelic would appear as Finn ).

Buckingham County, lying south of the James River at the geographic center of the state, was established on May 1, 1761 from the southeastern portion of Albemarle County.

* Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet ( 1761 – 1832 ) geologist, geophysicist

* James FitzGerald, 20th Earl of Kildare ( 1722 – 1773 ) was created Marquess of Kildare in 1761

Settled in 1761 by James Peter, it was dubbed New Marlborough by others from Marlboro, Massachusetts.

During 1761 Martinique was blockaded by Sir James Douglas to prevent reinforcements or supplies from reaching it.

* James Griffith ( academic ) ( 1761 – 1821 ), English academic and administrator

Captain Richard Bowen ( 1761 – 1797 ) James Bowen's younger brother, a British naval commander, ship HMS Terpsichore, served under Lord Nelson, killed at the battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Ingham discreetly sent two of his preachers, James Allen and William Batty, to Scotland to observe Glasite practices in 1761.

* Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet, of Netherby ( 1761 – 1824 ), MP for Ripon 1798 – 1807

In 1757 or 1758 Black became a friend of James Watt, who first began his studies on steam power at Glasgow University in 1761.

* James Forbes, 15th Lord Forbes ( 1689 – 1761 )

His second son Nathaniel Alexander was born in 1689 and became an Alderman of the city of Derry in 1755 and died on September 22, 1761, having had with other children a third son, James Alexander, who became the 1st Earl of Caledon.

On September 13, 1761 Allen and James Hamilton conveyed Lot no.

* Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas ( 1694 – 1761 ) ( created Duke of Douglas in 1703 ) ( dukedom extinct on his death, earldom and marquessate inherited by James Douglas-Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton )

* 1816 Land grant to Surgeon James Napper RN by Governor Macquarie ( 1761 – 1824 )-Headland to Whale Beach, 8 /- pa.

With the death of his brother James in September 1760 Lockhart succeeded to the Ross estate of Balnagowan, the entail of which obliged him to take the name of Ross ; this he formally did in the following spring, announcing the change to the admiralty on 31 March 1761.

Many headmasters came and went in the intervening period, including one James Cawthorne ( head from 1743 to 1761 ), a severe disciplinarian, so severe that his ghost is said to have remorselessly haunted the dormitories of the school's various houses for over a century after his death.

Church of St. James in Prelog was built in 1761.

The beautiful baroque Church of St. James was built in 1761, in the heyday of the town.

John Brown's son James Brown III was born on September 22, 1761 and educated at Harvard University where he graduated in 1780.