* 1715 – Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.

* 1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician ( d. 1715 )

* 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher ( d. 1715 )

* 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( b. 1715 )

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* Peter Alexeievich Romanov ( 23 October 1715 – 30 January 1730 )

* 1694 – Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( d. 1715 )

* 1715 – The Yamasee War begins in South Carolina.

* 1785 – William Whitehead, English writer ( b. 1715 )

* 1715 – James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works ( d. 1783 )

* 1767 – Franz Sparry, Austrian composer ( b. 1715 )

Pope: " Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart " The Iliad of Homer ( 1715 – 20 ) Book XV: 697 – 8

Charles Ancillon ( 28 July 1659 – 5 July 1715 ) was a French jurist and diplomat.

** Louis XIV ( 1643 – 1715 )

** Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

** Louis III ( 1643 – 1715 )

** Louis IV ( 1715 – 1774 )

* Louis XIV ( 1643 – 1715 )

* Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

* Lynn, John Albert, Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610 – 1715, Cambridge University Press, 1997

* 1715 – George Hickes, English minister and scholar ( b. 1642 )

Defoe comments on the tendency to attribute tracts of uncertain authorship to him in his apologia Appeal to Honour and Justice ( 1715 ), a defence of his part in Harley's Tory ministry ( 1710 – 14 ).

Three of five siblings survived to adulthood, Denise Diderot ( 1715 – 1797 ) and their youngest brother Pierre-Didier Diderot ( 1722 – 1787 ), and finally their sister Angélique Diderot ( 1720 – 1749 ).

* May 28 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer ( b. 1715 )

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (; 6 August 1715 – 28 May 1747 ) was a minor French writer, a moralist.

* 1715 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier ( d. 1794 )

Philip V signed the Decreto de Nueva Planta in 1715.

** Louis XV the Beloved and his minister Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, 1715 – 1774

King Louis XV of France's ( 1715 – 74 ) minister, the duc de Choiseul, had former experience of Rome as French ambassador, and was Europe's most skilled diplomat.

* 1715 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( d. 1780 )

* 1715 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general ( d. 1789 )

* July 4 – Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France ( b. 1715 )

* May 9 – Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist ( b. 1715 )

* July 13 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist ( b. 1715 )

** Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier ( executed ) ( b. 1715 )

* November 3 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman ( b. 1715 )

* August 3 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( b. 1715 )

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* 1715: the chevalier ( sir ) Pierre Rémy de Beauve, a French aristocrat who serves as garde de la marine in Brest, builds one of the oldest known diving dresses.

Victor de Riquetti, marquis de Mirabeau ( 5 October 1715, Pertuis – 13 July 1789, Argenteuil ) was a French economist of the Physiocratic school.

In boyhood, he became friends with Victor Riqueti, marquis of Mirabeau ( born 1715 ), father of the future French Revolution figure, Mirabeau, and with the future archaeologist, Jules François Paul Fauris de Saint-Vincens ( born 1718 ), with both of whom he would correspond avidly once he left home.

* Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau ( 1715 – 1789 ), economist