1753
1753 was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events Births February 12 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers , French admiral (d. 1798 ) February 20 - Louis Alexandre Berthier , French marshal (d. 1815 ) March 8 - William Roscoe , English writer (d. 1831 ) March 9 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber , French general (d. 1800 ) March 26 - Benjamin Thompson , American physicist and inventor (d. 1814 ) May 8 - Miguel Hidalgo , Mexican Catholic priest and revolutionary (d. 1811 ) May 13 - Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot , French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823 ) July 9 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock , Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825 ) August 10 - Edmund Randolph , American politician (d. 1813 ) August 12 - Thomas Bewick , English wood engraver (d. 1828 ) September 10 - John Soane , British architect (d. 1837 ) December 3 - Samuel Crompton , English inventor (d. 1827 ) Phillis Wheatley , African-born poet (d. 1784 ) Deaths