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George II of Great Britain
King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760
Baal Shem Tov
Polish founder of Hasidic Judaism (1698–1760)
Maria Amalia of Saxony
Queen consort of Spain (1724-1760)
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
German protestant religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church (1700-1760)
Adrien Manglard
French painter and engraver (1695-1760)
Anna Magdalena Bach
German singer and the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (1701-1760)
Alaungpaya
Alaungpaya (, ; also spelled Alaunghpaya or Alaung-Phra; 11 May 1760) was the founder and first emperor of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma. By the time of his death from illness during his campaign in Siam, this former chief of a small village in Upper Burma had unified Burma, subdued Manipur, conquered Lan Na and launched successful attacks against the French and British East India companies who had given help to the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom. He added settlements around Dagon, and called the enlarged town Yangon.
Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp
German duchess
William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1682-1760)
Andrija Kačić Miošić
Croatian Franciscan friar and writer (1704-1760)
Christoph Graupner
German composer
George Clifford III
Dutch banker, botanist and jurist (1685—1760)
Friederike Caroline Neuber
German actor and director
Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon
French noble (1690-1760)
Louis Godin
French astronomer
Charlotte de Rohan
French noble (1737-1760)
Johanna Magdalene of Saxe-Weissenfels
Duchess consort of Courland (1708-1760)
Girolamo Abos
Maltese-Italian composer (1715–1760)
Anton Fils
German composer
John Colson
mathematician
Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau
German general
Charles Alston
Scottish botanist and physician (1683/5 – 1760)
Ernst Gottlieb Baron
German composer (1696-1760)
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler
German poet
Diane Adélaïde de Mailly
Mistress of Louis XV
Giovanni Antonio Guardi
Italian painter (1699–1760)
Döwletmämmet Azady
Turkmen poet
Jean Moreau de Séchelles
French politician (1690-1760)
Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero
Catholic cardinal (1681-1760)
Michele Mascitti
Italian violinist and Baroque composer
Khasta Qasim
Iranian Azerbaijani poet
Lord George Murray
Scottish Jacobite general
Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł
Polish-Lithuanian noble (1715-1760)
Charles, Count of Charolais
French noble
Peg Woffington
Irish actress (1720-1760)
Giuseppe Maria Orlandini
Italian composer (1676–1760)
Louis de Silvestre
French painter (1675-1760)
Ong Long
king of Vientiane
Nezim Frakulla
poet
Giovanni Francesco II Brignole Sale
Italian politician (1695-1760)
Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin
Russian diplomat (1688-1760)
Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye
French Canadian fur trader and explorer (1717-1761)
Elizabeth Parris
Accuser in the Salem witch trials
Giuseppe Monti
Italian botanist and paleontologist (1682-1760)
Philippe Mercier
French artist (1689-1760)
Claude Moët
1683-1760 French wine merchant
Imperial Noble Consort Chunhui
Consort of Chinese Emperor
Shen Quan
Chinese painter (1682-1760)
Pierre-Alexandre Aveline
French engraver and printmaker
Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud
French translator and writer
Count Palatine William of Gelnhausen
Imperial Field Marshal
François Guillemot de Villebois
Russian admiral of French origin (1681–1760)
Giovanni Antonio Medrano
Italian architect
John Cope
British Army general (1690-1760)
Bharatchandra Ray
Bengali writer 18th Century.
Agustín de Ahumada
Spanish military officer
Margaretha Wulfraet
18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands (1678–1760)
Andrea Adolfati
18th century Italian composer
Jean Lebeuf
French historian
Pietro Paolo Vasta
Italian painter (1697-1760)