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Sadashivrao Bhau

Maratha Army commander

Ibrahim Khan Gardi

Indian Muslim general

Ivan Vishnyakov

Russian portrait painter (1699-1761)

Shamsher Bahadur I

jahagirdar of Banda and Kalpi, Subedar of Jhansi

Giuseppe Agostino Orsi

Catholic cardinal

Gabriele Manfredi

Italian mathematician (1681-1761)

Federico Sanvitale

Italian Jesuit and mathematician (1704-1761)

Antoine Louis Rouillé

French painter (1670-1761)

Benjamin Hoadly

British bishop (1676-1761)

French encyclopedist

Jacques-François Delyen

French painter (1684-1761)

Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi

Islamic scholar, author, philanthropist, and spiritual leader

Lieutenant Governor of colonial Massachusetts, acting governor during Dummer's War, benefactor of The Governor's Academy

August Friedrich Müller

German legal scholar and logician (1684–1761)

Thomas Sherlock

Bishop of Bangor; Bishop of Salisbury; Bishop of London

Royal Navy admiral, governor of the Province of New York

Johann Pfeiffer

German composer

Dutch colonial governor (1704-1761)

Friedrich Boerner

18th century engraver from the Northern Netherlands (1706-1761)

August Querfurt

Austrian artist (1696-1761)

French translator

Spanish franciscan, linguist and naturalist (1698–1761)

Ananda Ranga Pillai

Indian diarist (1709-1761)

Mayan revolutionary

Donato Felice d'Allio

Austrian architect (1677–1761)

Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps

French playwright

Georg Wolfgang Knorr

German naturalist (1705-1761)

Johann Daniel Schumacher

Russian scholar

Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas

Scottish nobleman (1694-1761)

Birgitte Christine Huitfeldt

English antiquarian and bibliographer, Norroy king-at-arms (1696-1761)

Ana Maria Catarina Henriqueta de Lorena, 1st Duchess of Abrantes

Portuguese noblewoman

Simon Carl Stanley

British-Danish artist

Maria Józefa Sobieska

Polish princess

Maharana of Mewar (1743-1761)

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1713-1761)

William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney

Irish soldier; (1672-1761)

Antoine Penchenier

French physician

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

German artist (1702-1761)

François Armand Gervaise

French abbot and historian

Jankoji Rao Shinde

18th century Indian king

Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne

Canadian explorer

John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne

Abdul Jalil Muazzam Shah

Sultan of Johor-Pahang (1760-1761)

German-Danish sculptor

Giovanni Andrea Tria

Catholic bishop (1676-1761)

French medallist (1687–1761)

Sir Edward Wortley Montagu

British ambassador; (1678-1761)

Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe

British nobleman and politician

British chemist

John Adams, Sr.

British colonial farmer, minister, father of the U.S. President, John Adams (1690-1761)

Jan Frans Foppens

Flemish historian (1689-1761)

Tokugawa Munekatsu

Royal Navy Rear Admiral and politician (1711–61)

Vishwasrao Bhat (27 July 1742 – 14 January 1761) was the eldest son and heir of Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao of the Maratha Empire. From an early age, he was trained in administration and military strategy, reflecting the Peshwa tradition of preparing the heir-apparent for leadership. He actively participated in Maratha military campaigns in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including the Battle of Udgir and conflicts against the Nizam of Hyderabad.