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1774 deaths

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Louis XV of France

King of France and of Navarre from 1715 to 1774 (1710–1774)

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (d. 1774)

pope of the Catholic Church from 1769 to 1774

26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1757–1774)

François Quesnay

French economist

British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)

Charles Marie de La Condamine

French explorer, geographer, and mathematician (1701-1774)

Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin

German physician, botanist, and explorer (1744-1774)

Niccolò Jommelli

Italian composer (1714–1774)

Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken

German noble (1721-1774)

Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick

Russian general (1714-1774)

Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken

German noble (1704-1774)

French architect (1705–1774)

Anna Morandi Manzolini

Italian artist (1714-1774)

Johan Peter Falk

Swedish botanist (1732-1774)

Johann Friedrich Agricola

German composer

English naturalist (1698–1774)

Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg

Austrian field marshal (1684–1774)

Otto von Münchhausen

German botanist (1716–1774)

British physiologist

Florian Leopold Gassmann

Austrian composer (1729–1774)

Johann Jacob Reiske

German scholar (1716-1774)

Robert Fergusson

Scottish poet and writer (1750-1774)

Martinez de Pasqually

French freemason

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet

Anglo-Irish official of the British Empire (1715-1774)

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

German painter and copper engraver (1712-1774)

František Tůma

Susanne von Klettenberg

German abbess and writer

Antoniotto Botta Adorno

high officer (1688–1774)

Józef Andrzej Załuski

Polish bishop (1702-1774)

Elias Gottlob Haussmann

German painter (1695–1774)

Charles Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1690-1774)

Alexander Bibikov

Russian statesman and military officer (1729-1774)

Jean-Pierre Guignon

French composer (1702-1774)

Zeynep Asima Sultan

ottoman princess, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III

Dmitry Ukhtomsky

Russian architect

Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein

Jesuit missionary and astronomer

Guillaume du Tillot

French politician (1711-1774)

Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland

British baroness (1723-1774); eldest of the Lennox sisters

Pierre-Jean Mariette

French art historian (1694–1774)

Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche

French writer (1722-1774)

Rodolfo Emilio Brignole Sale

Carlo Alberto Guidoboni Cavalchini

Catholic cardinal

Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland

British politician

Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué

German general (1698-1774)

Étienne-René Potier de Gesvres

French cardinal (1697-1774)

Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Elder

German anatomist (1724-1774)

Johann Georg, Chevalier de Saxe

Antoine Clériadus de Choiseul-Beaupré

French archbishop (1707-1774)

Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky

German hymnwriter

Willem Bentinck

Dutch politician (1704-1774)

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Saffārīnī (1114 AH, 1702/3 AD, Saffarin, Tulkarm – 1188 AH, 1774 AD, Nablus) also written as Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Saffarini al-Hanbali, was a Levantine Hanbali cleric, jurist, muhaddith, writer and historian. His full name was Shams al-Din Abu al-Aun Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Salim bin Sulayman al-Saffarini al-Nablusi.

Philippe Caffieri

French sculptor (1714–1774)

Tegbesu (French: Tegbessou) or Bossa Ahadee was a king of the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, from 1740 until 1774. While not the oldest son of King Agaja (1718-1740), he became king after Agaja's death following a succession struggle with a brother.

Armenian agronomist

Imperial Noble Consort Qinggong

Qing Dynasty imperial noble consort

Simon François Ravenet

French engraver (-1774)

Norwegian priest and linguist

French scientist

Manuel Quintano Bonifaz