Anniversarial — 2010
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Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2010:
Births
- Adhémar de Monteil de Brunier, Antoine Honneste d’, marquis d’Adhémar (born 1710–died 1785), French aristocrat, courtier, army officer
- Arnay, Jean Rodolphe d’ (born 1710–died 1765), Swiss university teacher, author
- Arne, Thomas Augustine (born 1710–died 1778), English musician, composer
- Bernoulli, Johann, II (born 1710–died 1790), Swiss mathematician
- Berthoud, Jean Henri (born 1710–died 1790), Swiss clockmaker, judge, tradesman
- Bland, Richard (born 1710–died 1776), American plantation-owner, politician, army officer, civil servant
- Boswell, John (born 1710–died 1780), Scottish physician, sectarian, Sandemanian/Glassite
- Bourgeois, Nicolas Louis (born 1710–died 1776), French author, poet, historian, academician
- Boyle, Margaret, countess of Cork and Orrery [née Hamilton] (born 1710–died 1758), Irish aristocrat
- Brancas, Louis Bufile de, 3rd marquis de Céreste [dit: “comte de Forcalquier”] (born 1710–died 1753), French aristocrat, army officer, courtier, playwright
- Bunbury, Sir William, 5th baronet (born c. 1710–died 1764), English churchman
- Calas, Anne Rose [née Cabibel] (born 1710–died 1792), French legal victim
- Carter, Landon (born 1710–died 1778), American landowner, pamphleteer, civil servant
- Clerc, David François (born 1710–died 1777), Swiss civil servant
- Coventry, Henry (born 1710–died 1752), English author
- Cramer, Johann Andreas (born 1710–died 1777), German chemist
- Cullen, William (born 1710–died 1790), Scottish physician, medical scientist, university teacher
- Erskine, Sir Harry, 5th Baronet Erskine of Alva and Cambuskenneth (born 1710–died 1765), Scottish army officer, politician
- Erskine, Henry David, 10th earl of Buchan (born 1710–died 1767), Scottish aristocrat
- Favart, Charles Simon (born 1710–died 1792), French author, playwright, theatre director
- Fielding, Sarah (born 1710–died 1768), English author, novelist
- Fiquet Du Boccage, Anne Marie [née Le Page] (born 1710–died 1802), French author, academician
- Grumet, père Baptiste Philippe Aimé, abbé Grumet (born 1710–died 1795), French churchman, Catholic
- Hallows, Mary (born 1710–died 1790), English housekeeper, servant
- Hamilton, James (born 1710–died 1783), American lawyer, politician, civil servant
- Haren, Willem van (born 1710–died 1768), Dutch author, poet, politician
- Herbigny, Henri Lambert d’, marquis de Thibouville (born 1710–died 1784), French army officer, author
- Joly de Fleury, Guillaume François Louis (born 1710–died 1787), French magistrate
- Kincaid, Alexander (born 1710–died 1777), Scottish bookseller, printer
- Kinloch of Gilmerton, David (born c. 1710–died 1795), Scottish lawyer
- La Broue, Frédéric Guillaume de (born c. 1710–died 1782), Dutch churchman, Protestant
- Laget, Guillaume (born 1710–died 1770), Swiss churchman, Protestant
- Le Fèvre, Marie François de Paule, marquis d’Ormesson (born 1710–died 1775), French aristocrat, politician, civil servant
- Lorraine, Élisabeth Sophie de, duchesse de Richelieu (born 1710–died 1740), French aristocrat
- Louis XV, king of France (born 1710–died 1774), French monarch
- Lowth, Reverend Robert, bishop of London (born 1710–died 1787), English churchman, scholar, academician, academic
- Lubert, Louis Pierre de (born before 1710–died after 1767), French soldier
- Luise Dorothea, Herzogin von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg [née von Sachsen-Meiningen] (born 1710–died 1767), German monarch, reigning duchess
- Macon de Chapelle, Antoine Joseph Marie, comte de Jumilhac (born 1710–died c. 1789), French army officer
- Mailly-Nesle, Louise Julie de, comtesse de Mailly (born 1710–died 1751), French aristocrat, mistress
- May, Margaritha von [née Fischer] (born 1710–died 1791), Swiss home-maker
- Melmoth, William [the younger] (born c. 1710–died 1799), English author, translator
- Mill, John (born 1710–died 1771), Scottish merchant
- North, Reverend George (born 1710–died 1772), English churchman
- O’Conor, Charles (born 1710–died 1791), Irish author, historian, activist
- Oconostota, Chief [Great Warrior] (born c. 1710–died 1783), Native American (Cherokee) tribal leader, warrior
- Paciaudi, padre Paolo Maria (born 1710–died 1785), Italian churchman, monk, Theatine, scholar, librarian, academic, archivist
- Phelps, Richard (born 1710–died 1785), English painter
- Pictet, Gabriel (born 1710–died 1783), Swiss soldier, army officer
- Prunay, Nicolas François de, chevalier de Lemps (born 1710–died after 1777), French army officer
- Querini, Andrea (born 1710–died 1795), Italian senator, poet, patron
- Reid, Thomas (born 1710–died 1796), Scottish scientist, philosopher, academician
- Saussure, Judith de (born 1710–died 1802), Swiss home-maker
- Schudt, Bernhard Jacob (born 1710–died 1785), German lawyer, politician
- Soret, Jean (born 1710), French lawyer, newspaper editor
- Talbot, Richard François, comte Tyrconnell (born 1710–died 1752), Scottish army officer, Jacobite, diplomat
- Taylor, Robert (born 1710–died 1762), English physician, academician
- Terrick, Reverend Doctor Richard, bishop of London (born 1710–died 1777), English churchman
- Toussaint, Felix-Yves (born c. 1710–died after 1736), French financier, courtier
- Trembley, Abraham (born 1710–died 1784), Swiss scientist, biologist, diplomat, educationalist, tutor
- Tronchin, Jean Robert (born 1710–died 1793), Swiss lawyer
- Trumbull, Jonathan [senior] (born 1710–died 1785), American merchant, state governor, politician
- Vandive, Nicolas Félix (born c. 1710–died 1792), French lawyer, civil servant
- Vicaire, Antoine (born 1710–died 1795), French university teacher, author
- Walther, Georg Conrad (born 1710–died 1778), German printer, bookseller
- Ward, Caesar (born 1710–died 1759), English printer
- Wyndham, Charles, 2nd earl of Egremont (born 1710–died 1763), English [unknown occupation]
- Yart, Antoine (born 1710–died 1791), French author, poet, translator
Deaths
- Addison, Lancelot (born 1680–died 1710), English scholar, classicist
- Addison, Mary [formerly Mrs Brookes; née Jolley] (died 1710), English home-maker
- Berkeley, Charles, 2nd earl of Berkeley (born c. 1649–died 1710), English aristocrat, academician, envoy, East India Company official, politician, member of Parliament, diplomat
- Beughem, Cornelius à (born c. 1637–died c. 1710), Dutch bookseller, bibliographer, scholar, bibliophile, collector
- Broughton, Sir Thomas, baronet (born c. 1648–died c. 1710), English gentleman
- Clarke, Edward (born 1650–died 1710), English politician, member of Parliament
- Codrington, Christopher (born 1668–died 1710), English colonial governor, benefactor
- Fotherby, Thomas (died 1710), English diplomat, civil servant
- Norman, Captain Robert (died 1710), Irish [unknown occupation]
- Proast, Reverend Jonas (born c. 1640–died 1710), English churchman, religious controversialist
- Rømer, Olaus (born 1644–died 1710), Danish astronomer
- Sbaraglia, Giovanni Girolamo (born 1641–died 1710), Italian university teacher, physician, anatomist
- Smith, Thomas (born 1638–died 1710), English Orientalist, biographer, author
- Smith, Reverend Thomas (born 1638–died 1710), English Orientalist, schoolteacher, antiquarian
- Spanheim, Ezechiel von, Freiherr von Spanheim (born 1629–died 1710), Swiss diplomat, scholar, classicist, numismatist
- Swift, Abigail [née Erick (or Herrick)] (born 1640–died 1710), Irish home-maker
- Thompson, John, 1st Baron Haversham (born 1648–died 1710), English East India Company official, politician, member of Parliament
