* 1754 – Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, planner of Washington, D. C. ( d. 1825 )

* 1696 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1754 )

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

* 1754 – Banastre Tarleton, English soldier and politician ( d. 1833 )

* 1673 – Richard Mead, English physician ( d. 1754 )

* 1744 – Alexandrine Le Normant d ' Étiolles, French daughter of Madame de Pompadour ( d. 1754 )

** April 1798 – November 1801 Jakob Emmanuel Feer ( b. 1754 – d. 1833 )

* Aleksandra von Engelhardt ( 1754 – 1838 ), Russian lady-in-waiting

* Robert A. McCaughey: Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754 – 2004, Columbia University Press, 2003, ISBN 0231130082

* George Cumberland ( 1754 – 1848 ), art collector and artist

* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge ( d. 1809 )

* 1754 – George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist ( d. 1832 )

* 1754 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1696 )

Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).

* 1692 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer ( d. 1754 )

* 1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter ( d. 1754 )

* 1691 – Edward Cave, English editor and publisher ( d. 1754 )

* 1754 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French diplomat and statesman ( d. 1838 )

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

* January 21 – King Louis XVI of France ( executed ) ( b. 1754 )

* December 17 – Pierre Louis Roederer, French politician, economist, and historian ( b. 1754 )

Louis XVI ( 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793 ) was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before being deposed and executed in 1793.

* Louis XVI ( 1754 – 1793 ) and Marie Antoinette ( 1755 – 1793 )

He was highly demanding and bad-tempered, unable to maintain longstanding partnerships with his librettists, with the exception of Louis de Cahusac, who collaborated with him on several operas, including Les fêtes de l ' Hymen et de l ' Amour ( 1747 ), Zaïs ( 1748 ), Naïs ( 1749 ), Zoroastre ( 1749 ; revised 1756 ), La naissance d ' Osiris ( 1754 ), and Anacréon ( the first of Rameau's operas by that name, 1754 ).

Quesnay had the ear of the King of France, Louis XV, and in 1754 persuaded him to give laissez faire a try.

His works are ( 1746 ), ( 1749 ), ( 1754 ), ( 1755 ), a comprehensive Cours d ' études ( 1767 – 1773 ) in 13 vols., written for the young Duke Ferdinand of Parma, a grandson of Louis XV, ( 1776 ), and two posthumous works, ( 1781 ) and the unfinished ( 1798 ).

Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy ( 20 July 1754 – 9 March 1836 ) was a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher who coined the term " ideology ".

* King of France ( August 1754 – 21 January 1793 ) Louis XVI of France

Joseph Louis Proust ( September 26, 1754 – July 5, 1826 ) was a French chemist.

* Joseph Louis Proust ( 1754 – 1826 )

It includes some outstanding pieces by well-known artists, such as a bust of Baldwin Hamey Junior ( 1600 – 1676 ) by Edward Pierce and one of Richard Mead ( 1673 – 1754 ) by Louis François Roubiliac.

Louis de BonaldLouis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald ( 2 October 1754, Le Monna ( part of Millau ), Rouergue ( now Aveyron )-23 November 1840, Le Monna ), was a French counter-revolutionary philosopher and politician.

Comte Pierre Louis Roederer ( 15 February 1754 – 17 December 1835 ) was a French politician, economist, and historian, politically active in the era of the French Revolution and First French Republic.

In 1754 he left for Rome in the train of Étienne-François de Choiseul, son of his father's employer, who had been named French ambassador and would become a Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Louis XV in 1758.

In 1754, another French dentist, Louis Bourdet, dentist to the King of France, followed Fauchard's book with “ The Dentist ’ s Art ", which also dedicated a chapter to tooth alignment and application.

* Louis-Auguste ( 1754 – 1793 ), grandson of Louis XV, King of France, who was also given the Berry title at his birth in 1754.

Gabriel's symmetrical palace-like façades for the hôtels particuliers that enclose the north side of the Place Louis XV ( Place de la Concorde ), Paris, were begun in 1754 and completed in 1763.

Louis Claude Marie Richard ( September 19, 1754 – June 6, 1821 ) was a French botanist and botanical illustrator.

* Marie Olympe de La Porte Mazarin ( 1665 – 24 January 1754 ), who married Louis Christophe Gigault, marquis de Bellefonds et de Boullaye,

** Louis XVI of France ( 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793 ), married Marie Antoinette and had issue.

* Duchess Maria Josefa of Saxony ( 1731 – 1767 ), second wife of the Dauphin Louis, and mother of Louis XVI ( 1754 – 1793 ), Louis XVIII ( 1755 – 1824 ) and Charles X ( 1757 – 1836 ).