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 (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
- Barton, John (born 1715–died 1735), English civil servant
- 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, père 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
- Braidwood, Thomas (born 1715–died 1806), Scottish schoolteacher, teacher of the deaf
- 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, academician
- Crusius, Christian August (born 1715–died 1775), German philosopher, theologian
- Dawson, Reverend Thomas (born 1715–died 1760), English churchman, university administrator, civil servant
- Delaroche, Aimé (born 1715–died 1801), French printer
- Desmarets, Yves Maret, marquis de Maillebois (born 1715–died 1791), French aristocrat, army officer, military author, academician
- 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
- Franck, Philippe Jacques de (born 1715–died 1780), French banker
- Freind, Reverend William (born 1715–died 1766), English churchman
- 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
- Hutton, James (born 1715–died 1795), English bookseller, churchman
- 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, horticulturist
- 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
- Muirhead, George (born 1715–died 1773), Scottish author, Orientalist, scholar, classicist, university teacher
- 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, academician
- Shipley, William (born 1715–died 1803), English painter, schoolteacher, educational founder, academy founder, commercial secretary, academician
- Stanley, Reverend Thomas (born 1715–died 1805), English churchman, Jesuit, teacher
- Stevens, John [senior] (born 1715–died 1792), American [unknown occupation]
- 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 (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, poet
Deaths
- Aston, Francis (born 1645–died 1715), English academician
- Burnet, Reverend 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
- Douglas, Archibald, 2nd earl of Forfar (born 1692–died 1715), Scottish aristocrat, army officer
- Homberg, Wilhelm (born 1652–died 1715), Dutch chemist, physicist
- Lamy, père Bernard (born 1640–died 1715), French churchman, Oratorian, mathematician, theologian, author
- Lee, Richard, II [dit: “the Scholar”] (born 1647–died 1715), American lawyer, civil servant, plantation-owner, taxman, 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, academician
- Malebranche, Nicholas (born 1638–died 1715), French churchman, Oratorian, philosopher
- Montagu, Charles, 1st earl of Halifax (born 1661–died 1715), English politician, member of Parliament
- Nelson, Robert (born 1656–died 1715), English author, academician
- Neumann, Caspar (born 1648–died 1715), German churchman
- Newton, Henry (born 1650–died 1715), English diplomat, judge, academician
- 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
- Smith, John (born 1659–died 1715), English churchman, historian
- 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, academician, translator
- Wharton, Thomas, 1st marquess of Wharton (born 1648–died 1715), English aristocrat, politician, member of Parliament
