Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1753
Birthdays
- February 12 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)
- February 20 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
- March 9 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
- March 26 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
- April 1 - Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821)
- May 8 - Miguel Hidalgo Mexican revolutionary, (d. 1811)
- May 13 - Lazare Carnot, French general
- May 31 - Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
- June 10 - William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
- July 9 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock
- August 17 - Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828)
- September 2 - Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France (d. 1810)
- November 6 - Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
- November 6 - Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
Deaths
- January 11 - Sir Hans Sloane, Ulster-Scot physician and collector (b. 1660)
- January 14 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)
- August 6 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
- August 19 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
- December 15 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
Events
- February 17 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
- May 1 - Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
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