Anniversarial — 2010
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George II dies on 25 October and is succeeded by his grandson, George III; a momentous change as it is under George III that the United States of America will achieve independence.
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2010:
Births
- L'Avant-coureur (founded 1760), French — newspaper
- Babeuf, François Noël (born 1760–died 1797), French — politician, revolutionary
- Baillie, Agnes [née Baillie] (born 1760–died 1861), English — home-maker
- Bannister, John (born 1760–died 1836), English — actor
- Beauharnais, Alexandre François Marie de, vicomte de Beauharnais (born 1760–died 1794), French — aristocrat, army officer, politician, revolutionary
- Bowdoin, Preeson (born 1760), American — merchant
- Cosway, Maria Cecilia Louisa [née Hadfield] (born 1760–died 1838), English — painter, pastellist
- Crespé, Marie Madeleine de (born 1760–died 1796), French — dancer
- Dayton, Jonathan (born 1760–died 1824), American — revolutionary army officer, politician
- Didier, Jean Emmanuel (born c. 1760–died 1829), Swiss — bookseller, printer, politician
- Fairlie, Sir William (born c. 1760–died 1825), Scottish — merchant, shipowner, civic official, civil servant
- Filliettaz, Marc Jacob (born 1760), Swiss — merchant
- Fonblanque, John de Grenier (born 1760–died 1838), English — lawyer, legal author, politician, member of Parliament
- Fosdick, Nathaniel (born 1760–died 1819), American — merchant, civil servant
- Franklin, William Temple (born 1760–died 1823), American — diplomat, literary executor
- Frost, William (born 1760–died 1821), American — shopkeeper, innkeeper, tradesman
- Greville, Henry Francis (born 1760–died 1816), English — army officer
- Hobart, Robert, 4th earl of Buckinghamshire (born 1760–died 1816), English — politician, member of Parliament
- Le Harivel-Durocher, Anne Louise Sophie [née Rulhière] (born 1760), French — gentlewoman
- Long, Charles, Baron Farnborough (born 1760–died 1838), English — lawyer, civil servant, politician, member of Parliament, collector, art critic, academy member
- Maury de Saint-Victor, Thérèse (born 1760), French — home-maker
- Oldfield, John (born 1760–died 1841), Welsh — lawyer
- Peltier, Jean Gabriel (born 1760–died 1825), French — journalist
- Polwhele, Richard (born 1760–died 1838), English — churchman, poet, historian, journalist, editor
- Reveley, Willey (born 1760–died 1799), English — architect, artist
- Stepney, Sir Thomas, baronet (born 1760–died 1825), Welsh — courtier
- Swanwick, John (born 1760–died 1798), American — merchant, banker, politician
- Thatcher, Sarah [née Savage] (born 1760–died 1843), American — home-maker
- Thornton, Henry (born 1760–died 1815), English — banker, political economist, politician, member of Parliament
- Turberville, George Lee (born 1760–died 1798), American — colonist, plantation owner, politician, army officer
- Weissenfels, Charles Frederick (born c. 1760–died 1795), American — army officer
- Wellesley, Richard Colley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (born 1760–died 1842), Irish — aristocrat, colonial governor, diplomat, politician, member of Parliament
- Windle, Thomas (born c. 1760–died 1818), English — lawyer
- Wolcott, Oliver [junior] (born 1760–died 1833), American — government minister, state governor
Deaths
- Ascania, Johanna Elisabeth von, princess of Anhalt-Zerbst [née von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp] (born 1712–died 1760), German — princess
- Bonneval, René de, chevalier d’Ogrinville (born 1700–died 1760), French — author, poet
- Brancas, Louis Antoine de, duc de Brancas-Villars (born 1682–died 1760), French — aristocrat
- Chalamond de La Visclède, Antoine Louis de (born 1692–died 1760), French — author, poet, academy member
- Cheyney, Thomas (born 1694–died 1760), English — churchman
- Coytmore, Lieutenant Richard (died 1760), English — soldier, army officer
- Dawson, Reverend Thomas (born 1715–died 1760), English — churchman, university administrator, civil servant
- Deméré, Captain Paul (died 1760), French — soldier, officer, Huguenot, army officer
- Dennis, Nicholas (born 1679–died 1760), English — merchant
- Duncan, William (born 1717–died 1760), Scottish — university teacher, translator
- Fabiot Aunillon, Pierre Charles, abbé Aunillon (born 1684–died 1760), French — churchman, author
- Fraser, James (died c. 1760), Scottish — physician, apothecary
- Freytag, Franz von, graf von Freytag (died 1760), German — diplomat
- George II, king of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1683–died 1760), German — monarch
- Montmorency, Anne Marie de, princesse de Robecq (born 1728–died 1760), French — princess, salon hostess
- Pellissary, Isaac George de (born 1698–died 1760), Swiss — notary, civil servant
- Podewils, Heinrich von, graf von Podewils (born 1695–died 1760), German — government minister
- Sarasin, Reverend Jean [senior] (born 1693–died 1760), Swiss — churchman, Protestant
- Sauvé, Jean Baptiste Simon (born 1701–died 1760), French — actor, playwright
- Turnbull of Dalladies, George (died 1760), Scottish — lawyer
- Ulfeld, Anton Corfiz von, graf von Ulfeld (born 1699–died 1760), Austrian — government minister
- William VIII, landgrave of Hesse-Cassel (born 1682–died 1760), German — monarch
- Willis, Browne (born 1682–died 1760), English — antiquarian, scholar, author