* 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 )

* 1754 – Louis XVI of France ( d. 1793 )

* 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 ).

** Jacques Pierre Brissot, French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1754 )

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

* Jacques Pierre Brissot ( 1754 – 1793 ), a leading member of the Girondist movement ( French Revolution )

Jacques Pierre Brissot ( 15 January 1754 – 31 October 1793 ), who assumed the name of de Warville, was a leading member of the Girondist movement during the French Revolution.

Pierre Murat-Jordy was the son of Guillaume Murat ( 1692 – 1754 ) and his wife Marguerite Herbeil ( d. 1755 ); paternal grandson of Pierre Murat, born in 1634, and wife Catherine Badourès, who died in 1697 ; and maternal grandson of Bertrand Herbeil and wife Anne Roques.

Pierre ( Peter ) Charles L ' Enfant (; 1754 – 1825 ) was a French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the layout of the streets of Washington, D. C ..

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.

* Pierre Jacques Michel Chasles ( 1754 – 1826 ), revolutionist, father of Philarète

His father, Pierre Jacques Michel Chasles ( 1754 – 1826 ), was a member of the Convention, and was one of those who voted the death of Louis XVI.

Andrew Ellicott ( January 24, 1754 – August 28, 1820 ) was a U. S. surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre ( Peter ) Charles L ' Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D. C., and served as a teacher in survey methods for Meriwether Lewis.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, then prince de Talleyrand (; 1754 – 1838 )

Frederick I William Charles of Württemberg (; 6 November 1754 – 30 October 1816 ) was the last Duke of Würtemberg, then briefly Elector of Württemberg, and was later elevated to the status of King of Württemberg, by Napoleon I.

In 1754, the first of the provisional Carnatic treaties was signed between Thomas Saunders, the Company president at Madras, and Charles Godeheu, the French commander who displaced Dupleix.

Having admitted his sons Francis ( 1745 – 1822 ) and Charles ( 1754 – 1831 ) into partnership he undertook for the " New Conger " Association the issue of a standard edition of the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Locke and other British classics ; also Cruden's Concordance.

Among his pupils were John Alexander Gresse ( 1741 – 1794 ); Charles Grignon ( 1754 – 1804 ); and Mauritius Lowe (- 1793 ).

The appointment of Mengs in 1749 as first painter to Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony, did not prevent his spending much time in Rome, where he had married Margarita Guazzi who had sat for him as a model in 1748, and abjured the Protestant faith, and where he became in 1754 director of the Vatican school of painting, nor did this hinder him on two occasions from obeying the call of Charles III of Spain to Madrid.

* Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland ( 1754 – 1787 ), second son of Lord Granby

After serving in the West Indies he was sent to the East Indies Station in 1754 as captain of the 58-gun with Rear-Admiral Charles Watson.

* Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland ( 1754 – 1787 )

* Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, 8th Marquess of Winchester ( 1685 – 1754 )

** Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton ( 3 September 1685 – 26 August 1754 ).

** Valdave Charles Lauder Maitland, Viscount Maitland ( 1752 – 1754 )

* Charles Stanley Monck, 1st Viscount Monck ( c. 1754 – 1802 )

Charles Bathurst PC ( 1754 – 13 August 1831 ), known as Charles Bragge from 1754 to 1804, was a British politician of the early 19th century.

In Naples Charles appointed him at first councillor of state, then superintendent of posts, minister of justice in 1752, foreign minister in 1754 and finally prime minister and a marquis.

* Charles Godeheu, Le commissaire ( Acting ), October 15, 1754 – 54

Starting in 1754, Charles Messier made several attempts to find this object from Paris, France, but the low declination meant it never rose sufficiently far above the horizon to allow for easy observation.

* Charles Warburton ( 1754 – 1826 ), Irish Anglican bishop

* Admiral of the Red Sir Charles Knowles, 2nd Baronet ( 1754 – 1831 )