* 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.

* 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 )

* April 16 – Marie Tussaud, French wax sculptor ( b. 1761 )

The term was first used improperly in that sense by the pioneers of Romance-language philology: François Juste Marie Raynouard ( 1761 – 1836 ) and Friedrich Christian Diez ( 1794 – 1876 ).

Antoine BarnaveAntoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave ( 22 October 1761 – 29 November 1793 ) was a French politician, and, together with Honoré Mirabeau, one of the most influential orators of the early part of the French Revolution.

* Marie Étiennette Perrine d ' Auvilliers, ( 7 July 1761 -), who married François-Constantin, Count of Brossard, a dragon regiment officer.

François Just Marie Raynouard ( 18 September 1761 – 27 October 1836 ) was a French dramatist and linguist.

Their son, Marie Joseph, born in 1761, also distinguished himself as a painter.

On 1 December 1761 ; her father, a soldier named Joseph Grosholtz, was killed in the Seven Years ' War just two months before Marie was born.

Louis François Joseph had two illegitimate children, born in 1761 and 1767, by Marie Anne Véronèse, known as Mademoiselle Coraline, previously a dancer at an Italian theatre.

Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann made her the stage debut on 16 October 1761 as Louise in Molière's Malade Imaginaire.

Both of those boys, Karl Alexander and Karl Egon Marie had died in infancy and childhood, respectively ( 1761 and 1771 ).

Anna Maria Tussaud ( née Grosholtz ; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850 ) was an artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London.

* 1761 – The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.

* 1761 – Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General ( d. 1828 )

* 1682 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian ( d. 1761 )

Though a congregation of bishops assembled at Paris in December 1761 recommended no action, Louis XV of France ( 1715 – 74 ) promulgated a royal order permitting the Society to remain in the kingdom, with the proviso that certain essentially liberalising changes in their institution satisfy the Parlement with a French Jesuit vicar-general who should be independent of the general in Rome.

It is said that the 17th century French physician Pierre Fauchard ( 1678 – 1761 ) started dentistry science as we know it today, and he has been named " the father of modern dentistry ".

In 1761 the French ship Utile, carrying slaves from Madagascar to Mauritius, ran onto the reefs of the island.

The war in Germany continued through 1761 with the French again attempting to overcome Brunswick and invade Hanover, but suffering a defeat at the Battle of Villinghausen.

** François Hanriot, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1761 )

** William Joseph Chaminade, French Catholic priest ( b. 1761 )

* April 15 – Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general ( strangled in prison ) ( b. 1761 )

* November 29 – Antoine Barnave, French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1761 )

* date unknown – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer ( d. 1761 )

* October 29 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian ( d. 1761 )

* Dominica-The island was captured from the French in 1761.

Some of the first Europeans to visit the area are thought to have been British Army deserters from Fort Pitt, who reportedly fled their post in 1761 during the French and Indian War and roamed northwestern Virginia for several years thereafter.

But ongoing hostilities between the English, French, and their respective Native American allies prevented settlement until 1761, after which it remained for many years a part of Meredith and Gilford called Meredith Bridge.

As a result of the French War, few original grantees settled here, so it was regranted on October 7, 1761 to William Noyes and 69 others, the majority from Lyme, Connecticut.

But hostilities during the French and Indian War delayed settlement, and in 1761, it was regranted as New Holderness ( although " New " would be dropped in 1816 ).

Settled in 1761, the town was originally named " New Breton ," having been granted primarily to soldiers who had taken part in the 1745 capture of Cape Breton during hostilities with the French in Canada.

The first major recorded Euro-American presence in the Knoxville area was the Henry Timberlake expedition, which passed through the confluence of the Holston and French Broad into the Tennessee River in December 1761.