Famous Deaths for Year 1761
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Months in Year 1761: January February March April May June July August September November December
Deaths 1 - 23 of 23
Jan 3rd - Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph), dies at 73
Jan 4th - Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83
Jan 10th - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
Feb 1st - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (b. 1682)
Feb 15th - Carlo Cecere, composer, dies at 54
Mar 7th - Antonio Palella, composer, dies at 68
Mar 27th - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72
Apr 4th - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
Apr 9th - William Law, British minister and theologian (b. 1686)
Apr 15th - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
Apr 15th - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
Apr 17th - Thomas Bayes, English mathematician
May 14th - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50
May 15th - Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies), dies at 56
Jun 2nd - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
Jun 12th - Meinrad Spiess, composer, dies at 77
Jul 4th - Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
Jul 13th - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
Aug 3rd - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
Sep 8th - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
Sep 19th - Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle), dies at 69
Nov 30th - John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
Dec 23rd - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy
