Anniversarial — 2015
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Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2015:
Births
- Aldenburg, Charlotte Sophia van, countess of Bentinck [née van Aldenburg] (born 1715–died 1800), German — aristocrat, author
- Angran d'Alleray, Denis François (born 1715–died 1794), French — lawyer, politician
- Ashton, Thomas (born 1715–died 1775), English — churchman, religious controversialist
- Astier, Hyacinthe Antoine d’, seigneur de Cromessière (born 1715–died 1786), French — army officer
- Baillet, Louis Guillaume, baron de Saint-Julien (born c. 1715–died 1780), French — author, poet, art critic
- Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland [née Harley] (born 1715–died 1785), English — aristocrat, collector, patron
- Berkenroode, Mattheus Lestevenon van (born 1715–died 1797), Dutch — diplomat
- Bonnot de Condillac, Étienne, abbé de Mureaux et de Condillac (born 1715–died 1780), French — philosopher
- Bonstetten, Marie Élisabeth de [née von Erlach] (born 1715–died 1793), Swiss — gentlewoman
- Bouchaud Du Plessis, Jean Baptiste (born 1715), French — lawyer, judge
- Boy de La Tour, Julie Anne Marie [née Roguin] (born 1715–died 1780), Swiss — banker
- Brown, John (born 1715–died 1766), Scottish — author, poet, moralist
- Caracciolo, Domenico, marchese di Villamaina (born 1715–died 1789), Italian — diplomat, regional governor
- Cartier, Bernard (born 1715–died after 1772), Swiss — clockmaker, tradesman
- Clapiers, Luc de, marquis de Vauvenargues (born 1715–died 1747), French — army officer, essayist, author
- Clerk-Maxwell, Sir George, 4th baronet (born 1715–died 1784), Scottish — agriculturalist, customs official, civil servant
- Cochin, Charles Nicolas (born 1715–died 1790), French — engraver, illustrator, curator, academy member
- Dawson, Reverend Thomas (born 1715–died 1760), English — churchman, university administrator, civil servant
- Delaroche, Aimé (born 1715–died 1801), French — printer
- Dompierre de Fontaine, Marie Élisabeth de, marquise de Florian [née Mignot] (born 1715–died 1771), French — aristocrat
- Dupin de Francueil, Louis Claude (born 1715–died 1787), French — financier, musician, chemist
- Durfort, Emmanuel Félicité de, duc de Duras (born 1715–died 1789), French — aristocrat, army officer, courtier, diplomat
- Elizabeth Christina, queen consort of Prussia (born 1715–died 1797), German — consort
- Gale, Benjamin (born 1715–died 1790), American — physician, scientist, politician
- Gallatin, Pierre (born 1715–died 1763), Swiss — postal official
- Garencieres, Theophilus (born c. 1715–died 1784), English — apothecary, physician
- Gibbon, Dorothea [née Patton] (born c. 1715–died 1796), English — home-maker
- Glassford, John (born 1715–died 1783), Scottish — tobacco-merchant, businessman, banker, cloth manufacturer, tanner, brewer
- Graves, Richard (born 1715–died 1804), English — author, translator
- Grenville, James (born 1715–died 1783), English — politician, member of Parliament
- Guy, Pierre (born 1715–died 1795), French — printer, bookseller
- Helvétius, Claude Adrien (born 1715–died 1771), French — philosopher, author
- Herrenschwand, Jean Frédéric (born 1715–died 1798), Swiss — physician, courtier
- Hite, Colonel John (born c. 1715–died 1792), American — militia officer
- Jago, Richard (born 1715–died 1781), English — churchman, poet
- Jéquier, Jean Antoine (born 1715), Swiss — cutler, postal official, tradesman, postman
- Johnson, Sir William, 1st Baronet Johnson (born c. 1715–died 1774), Irish — civil servant, soldier, army officer
- Joly de Fleury, Jean Omer (born 1715–died 1810), French — magistrate
- Le Compasseur Créqui-Monfort, Gaspard, marquis de Courtivron (born 1715–died 1785), French — army officer, scientist
- Lee, James (born 1715–died 1795), Scottish — nurseryman, horticulture
- Le Franc de Pompignan, Jean Georges, archevêque de Vienne (born 1715–died 1790), French — churchman
- Lépine, Jean Antoine (born 1715–died 1777), French — clockmaker, tradesman
- Masson, Pierre Toussaint (born 1715), French — author, poet
- Muret, Jean Louis (born 1715–died 1796), Swiss — churchman, Protestant, economist
- Nicholas, Robert Carter (born 1715–died 1780), American — civil servant
- Noailles, Philippe de, duc de Mouchy (born 1715–died 1794), French — army officer
- Oswald of Dunnikier, James (born 1715–died 1769), Scottish — politician, member of Parliament, lawyer, civil servant
- Peschier, Jean (born 1715–died 1793), Swiss — churchman, Protestant
- Phillips, Samuel (born 1715–died 1790), American — merchant, politician
- Pierres, François Joachim de, cardinal de Bernis (born 1715–died 1794), French — diplomat, government minister
- Polcenigo, Giorgio di, conte di Fanna (born 1715–died 1784), Italian — aristocrat, poet
- Power, Guglielmo (born c. 1715–died c. 1790), Irish — army officer, colonial governor, agriculturalist
- Randolph, Richard (born c. 1715–died 1786), American — landowner
- Riqueti, Victor, marquis de Mirabeau (born 1715–died 1789), French — aristocrat, economist, agronomist
- Rohan, Charles de, prince de Soubise (born 1715–died 1787), French — aristocrat, courtier, regional governor
- Rousseau, Gabriel (born 1715–died 1780), Swiss — unknown occupation
- Scheffer, Greve Carl Fredrik (born 1715–died 1786), Swedish — politician, academy member
- Shipley, William (born 1715–died 1803), English — painter, school teacher, educational founder, academy founder, commercial secretary, academy member
- Strahan, William (born 1715–died 1785), Scottish — printer, publisher, bookseller
- Terray, Joseph Marie (born 1715–died 1778), French — lawyer, civil servant, government minister
- Toussaint, François Vincent (born 1715–died 1772), French — journalist, translator
- Vesey, Elizabeth [formerly Handcock; née Vesey] (born c. 1715–died 1791), English — salon hostess
- Walker, Doctor Thomas (born 1715–died 1794), American — politician, civil servant
- Whitehead, William (born 1715–died 1785), English — author, playwright
Deaths
- Aston, Francis (born 1645–died 1715), English — academy member
- Burnet, Gilbert, bishop of Salisbury (born 1643–died 1715), Scottish — churchman, religious controversialist, historian
- Carstares, William (born 1649–died 1715), Scottish — churchman, politician
- Conradt, Israel (born 1634–died 1715), Polish — physician, scientist
- Cuninghame, Robert (died 1715), Scottish — apothecary, druggist, landowner, mine owner
- Lee, Richard, II [“the Scholar”] (born 1647–died 1715), American — lawyer, civil servant, planter, taxman, navy officer, plantation owner, naval officer
- Lémery, Nicolas (born 1645–died 1715), French — Huguenot, pharmacist, chemist, author
- Locke, Samuel (died 1715), English — banker, East India Company official
- Louis XIV, king of France (born 1638–died 1715), French — monarch
- Magnol, Pierre (born 1638–died 1715), French — botanist, academy member
- Montagu, Charles, 1st earl of Halifax (born 1661–died 1715), English — politician, member of Parliament
- Nelson, Robert (born 1656–died 1715), English — author, academy member
- Neumann, Caspar (born 1648–died 1715), German — churchman
- Newton, Henry (born 1650–died 1715), English — diplomat, judge, academy member
- Pullen, Josiah (born c. 1633–died 1715), English — churchman, university administrator
- Sacheverell, William (born c. 1664–died 1715), English — author, regional governor
- Scurlock, John (died 1715), Welsh — mercer, politician, tradesman
- Shower, Reverend John (born 1657–died 1715), English — churchman, Nonconformist
- Tenison, Reverend Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury (born 1636–died 1715), English — churchman
- Waite, Sir Nicholas (died c. 1715), English — merchant, East India Company official, colonial governor
- Waller, Richard (born c. 1660–died 1715), English — botanist, academy member, translator
- Wharton, Thomas, 1st marquess of Wharton (born 1648–died 1715), English — aristocrat, politician, member of Parliament