Famous Deaths In 1761

Jan 03 On this day in history willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph), dies at 73  

Jan 04 Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83 in the year 1761.  

Jan 10 Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711) died on this day in history.  

Feb 01 Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (b. 1682) died in the year 1761.  

Feb 15 Carlo Cecere, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.  

Mar 07 Antonio Palella, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

Mar 27 Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

Apr 04 Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722) died on this day in history.  

Apr 09 William Law, theologian, dies in the year 1761.  

Apr 15 Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682) died in the year 1761.  

Apr 17 Thomas Bayes, English mathematician died in the year 1761.  

May 14 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50 on this day in history.  

May 15 On this day in history jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies), dies at 56  

Jun 02 In the year 1761 death of jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)  

Jun 12 On this day in history meinrad Spiess, composer, dies at 77  

Jul 04 In the year 1761 death of samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)  

Jul 13 Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712) died in the year 1761.  

Aug 03 Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691) died in the year 1761.  

Sep 08 In the year 1761 death of bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)  

Sep 19 In the year 1761 peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle), dies at 69  

Nov 30 John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706) died in the year 1761.  

Dec 23 In the year 1761 death of alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy  

Dec 25 Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about 51 on this day in history.  

Jan 17 James Hall, Scotland, geologist was born in the year 1761.  

Jan 20 In the year 1761 birth of giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer  

Jan 23 Friedrich von Matthison, German poet (Adelaide) was born in the year 1761.  

Jan 29 In the year 1761 birth of abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Switz, US minister of Finance (1801-14)  

Feb 01 Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836) was born in the year 1761.  

Feb 16 In the year 1761 birth of charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804)  

Feb 22 Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer was born in the year 1761.  

Feb 22 On this day in history birth of jacob Kimball, composer