* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

* 1755 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter ( d. 1842 )

* 1696 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( d. 1755 )

* 1755 – Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.

* 1755 – Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.

* 1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor ( d. 1805 )

Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.

Sir Thomas Grenville ( 1755 – 1846 ), a Trustee of The British Museum from 1830, assembled a fine library of 20, 240 volumes, which he left to the Museum in his will.

John Smeaton made an important contribution to the development of cements when he was planning the construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( 1755 – 9 ) in the English Channel.

* 1755 – The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.

* 1755 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( b. 1696 )

* 1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician ( d. 1755 )

* 1824 – James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist ( b. 1755 )

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 ).

* Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, ( French, 1755 – 94 ), author of Fables ( published 1802 )

** Albert Christoph Dies, composer and painter ( born 1755 )

Albert Christoph Dies ( 1755 – 1822 ) was a German painter, composer, and biographer.

* Albert Christoph Dies ( 1755 – 1822 ), German painter, composer, and biographer

Francesco Algarotti's Essay on the Opera ( 1755 ) proved to be an inspiration for Christoph Willibald Gluck's reforms.

* December 26 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician ( d. 1755 )

In 1872, the Lutherans established a local college at Blue Springs known as Mosheim Institute, after the German theologian, Johann Lorenz von Mosheim ( 1693 – 1755 ).

Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann ( 10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843 ) was a German physician, best known for creating a system of alternative medicine called homeopathy.

Raynal's own letters, Nouvelles littéraires, dispatched to various German courts, keeping the European aristocracy abreast of current cultural developments in Paris, ceased early in 1755.

Survivors lived in tents on the outskirts of the city after the earthquake, as shown in this fanciful 1755 German engraving.

Johann Georg Gmelin ( 8 August 1709 – 20 May 1755 ) was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer.

* August 8-Johann Georg Gmelin, German botanist ( died 1755 )

A German translation by Johan Philip Cassel appeared under the title of Cumberlands phonizische Historie des Sanchoniathons ( Magdeburg, 1755 ).

In 1755, as the Seven Years ' War ( whose North American theater is also known as the French and Indian War ) was in its early stages, Haldimand and Bouquet joined a British regiment composed of German and Swiss men recruited at first from the armies of Europe, but then also from German-speaking settlers in North America.

After his studies he went in 1755 as a tutor to Stockholm, where he spent a year and a half as tutor in the family of the minister of the German congregation, and during 1756 / 1757 in Uppsala, studying Old Norse and Gothic with the philologist Johan Ihre, then again in Stockholm as secretary of a German merchant.

* Johann Georg Gmelin ( 1709 – 1755 ), a German naturalist ; explorer of Siberia, author of Flora Siberica

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim or Johann Lorenz Mosheim ( October 9, 1693 – September 9, 1755 ), German Lutheran church historian, was born at Lübeck on 9 October 1693 or 1694.

Christian Heinrich Spiess ( 4 April 1755 – 17 August 1799 ) was a German writer of romances.

Johann Georg Pisendel ( 26 December 1687 – 25 November 1755 ) was a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe.

The Apollo became one of the world's most celebrated art works when in 1755 it was championed by the German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ) as the best example of the perfection of the Greek aesthetic ideal.

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ( 28 January 1755 – 2 March 1830 ) was a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor.

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring ( 28 January 1755 – 2 March 1830 ) was a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor.

Among these were German painter Anton Raphael Mengs, Italian Pompeo Batoni, and German archeologist and art theorist Johann Joachim Winckelmann who arrived in Rome 1755.

Algarotti's Essay on the Opera ( 1755 ) was a major influence on the librettist Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni and the composer Tommaso Traetta, and in the development of Gluck's reformist ideology.

After Telemann's eldest son Andreas died in 1755, he assumed the responsibility of raising Andreas ' son Georg Michael Telemann, who eventually became a composer.

* 1755 – Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violinist and composer ( d. 1824 )

* 1680 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Italian-French composer and cellist ( d. 1755 )

* 1755 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, Belgian classical composer ( d. 1799 )

The first opera written in Russian was Tsefal i Prokris by the Italian composer Francesco Araja ( 1755 ).

* December 23 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer ( d. 1755 )

* August 12 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( d. 1755 )

* March 15 – Francesco Durante, Italian composer ( d. 1755 )

* John Clerk of Penicuik, 2nd Baronet ( 1676 – 1755 ), was a Scottish politician, lawyer, judge, composer and architect.

Maurice Greene ( 12 August 1696 – 1 December 1755 ) was an English composer and organist.

Francesco Durante ( 31 March 1684 – 30 September 1755 ) was a Neapolitan composer.

* March 28 – Antonio Capuzzi, violinist and composer ( b. 1755 )

* March 3 – Giovanni Battista Viotti, violinist and composer ( born 1755 )

* June 23 – Mateo Albéniz, composer ( b. 1755 )

* September 21 – John Christopher Moller, composer and music publisher ( born 1755 )

* December 23 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer ( died 1755 )

* ( 1755 – 1836 ), Danish-Norwegian composer and pianist

* Maurice Greene ( composer ) ( 1696 – 1755 ), English composer and organist