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Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 168910 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher.

Johann Georg Gmelin

German and Russian scientist (1709-1755)

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

French writer (1675-1755)

Stepan Krasheninnikov

Russian scientist (1711-1755)

Francesco Durante

Italian composer (1684–1755)

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

French painter and printmaker (1686-1755)

Johann Georg Pisendel

German composer and violinist

Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve

Margravine Albertine Friederike of Baden-Durlach

Mother of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden

Edward Braddock

army general from Great Britain (1695–1755)

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

French composer (1689-1755)

Syrian chess master

Italian Redemptorist lay brother and saint (1729-1755)

Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei

Italian historian, diplomatics, paleographer, playwriter and scholar (1675-1755)

Angelo Maria Querini

Italian cardinal

Chinese politician and historian (1672-1755)

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim

German church historian

Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire

British nobleman and Whig politician

English composer and organist

Johannes Browallius

Swedish theologian and scientist (1707-1755)

Emperor of Ethiopia

George Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz

Austrian field marshal (1686-1755)

Louis Auguste, Prince of Dombes

French noble (1700-1755)

Ulrich Frédéric Woldemar, Comte de Lowendal

German-born French soldier and statesmen (1700-1755)

Italian composer (c. 1675–1755)

Princess Marie Zéphyrine of France

Dauphin of France

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Italian painter (1674-1755)

Giulia Crostarosa

Italian catholic nun and foundress (1696-1755)

Bitòn Coulibaly

Ruler of the Bambara Empire

Niccolò Coscia

Catholic cardinal

Francisco António de Almeida

Portuguese composer and organist

Samuel von Cocceji

Prussian politician (1679-1755)

Marie Elisabeth, Abbess of Quedlinburg

German abbess (1678-1755)

Ignacio Visconti

Superior General of the Society of Jesus

Jean-Pierre Christin

French astronomer

Johann David Köhler

German historian (1684–1755)

Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer

French harpsichordist and composer

Raghoji I Bhonsle

Maharaja of Nagpur

Jacques Caffieri

French sculptor and master bronzesmith and gilder (1678–1755)

Prince Thammathibet Chaiyachet Suriyawong (), also titled Prince Senaphithak () and known poetically as Prince Narathibet (), or more commonly Prince Kung (; 1715–1755), served as Viceroy (Front Palace) of the Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1741 to 1755.

Johann Gottlob Harrer

German composer

Pier Luigi Carafa

Italian cardinal

Amschel Moses Rothschild

German Jewish money changer

Chinese artist (1695-1755)

Maria Anna of Schwarzenberg

Margravine consort of Baden-Baden

Pierre Barrère

18th century French physician and naturalist (1690-1755)

Laurentius Blumentrost

Russian court physician and founder and first president of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Filippo Argelati

Italian historian and numismatist (1685-1755)

Nicolas Lenglet du Fresnoy

French translator and writer (1674-1755)

Imperial Noble Consort Shujia

Qianlong Emperor consort (1713–1755) from Joseon

Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels

Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege, later of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels

Haji Chalabi Khan

Johan Cornelius Krieger

Danish architect

Anastasia Ivanovna Trubetskaya

Russian Noble (1700-1755)

king of Cambodia

Gustavus Hesselius

Swedish-American painter (1682-1755)

Jean-Baptiste Stuck

Italian-French composer and cellist

Charles Louis of Lorraine, Count of Marsan