* 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 )

* 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 – 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 ).

Thomas Bowdler (; 11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825 ) was an English physician and philanthropist, best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work, edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, intended to be more appropriate for 19th century women and children than the original.

Vice Admiral William Bligh, FRS, RN ( 9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

* November 15 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor ( b. 1754 )

* William Drennan, Northern Irish poet ( b. 1754 )

Even before Washington returned, Dinwiddie had sent a company of 40 men under William Trent to that point, where in the early months of 1754 they began construction of a small stockaded fort.

William Murdoch ( sometimes spelled Murdock ) ( 21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839 ) was a Scottish engineer and long-term inventor.

The Orange County county seat of Hillsborough was founded in 1754 on land where the Great Indian Trading Path crossed the Eno River and was first owned, surveyed, and mapped by William Churton ( a surveyor for Earl Granville ).

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.

The township was created in 1754 out of Greenwich Township and was named after William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield.

After the death of its builder and original occupant in 1753, and the subsequent deaths of his last surviving daughter Charlotte Boyle in 1754 and his widow in 1758, the property was ceded to the Cavendish family and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, the husband of Charlotte.

On July 6, 1754 a treaty was signed at Albany, New York between the Iroquois and the William Penn heirs, opening up portions of the west for settlement.

William Card ( 1710 – 1784 ), born in Rhode Island, settled in Pownal perhaps as late as 1773 ( though his sons settled there between 1762 – 1766 ) fought for the British at the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777, along with four of his sons: Jonathan ( 1734 – 1818 ), Elisha ( 1738 – 1805 ), Philo ( 1754 – 1837 ) --- NOTE: This is an error ... No Philo Card has been found to exist.

* William Hamilton ( Jacobite poet ) ( 1704 – 1754 ), Scottish poet associated with the Jacobite movement

* William Marsden ( orientalist ) ( 1754 – 1836 ), English orientalist

He allied himself with his brother Richard and with William Pitt ( who became their brother-in-law in 1754 ) in forcing Pelham to give them promotion by rebelling against his authority and obstructing business.

He defended John Milton against William Lauder's charge of plagiarism ( 1750 ), and attacked David Hume's rationalism in his Letter on the Criterion of Miracles ( 1754 ); he went on to criticise the followers of John Hutchinson in his Apology for the Clergy ( 1755 ).

By his first wife he had nine children ( three sons and six daughters ) one of whom, Richard ( 1631 – 1695 ) was chancellor of the exchequer in William III's reign ; from two of his daughters are descended the families of Trevor Hampden and Hobart-Hampden, the descent in the male line becoming apparently extinct in 1754 in the person of John Hampden.

In 1802, William Fullarton ( 1754 – 1808 ) was appointed as the Senior Member of a commission to govern the island, Samuel Hood became the second member, and Picton himself the junior.

Knox's Headquarters-a 1754 stone house built by noted stonemason William Bull, used for John Ellison off Forge Hill Road.

William Norris being associated with him in 1754.

* William Hunter ( Vermont politician ) ( 1754 – 1827 ), U. S. Representative from Vermont

The turning point in his political fortunes was the marriage of his sister Hester in 1754 to William Pitt, later Earl of Chatham.

The Particular Baptist Missionary Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen ( later the Baptist Missionary Society, and now BMS World Mission ) was organised in 1792, under the leadership of Andrew Fuller ( 1754 – 1815 ), John Sutcliff ( 1752 – 1814 ), and William Carey ( 1761 – 1834 ).