Editing 1755 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:Montesquieu 1.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Montesquieu]]]]
[[File:Герардо Майелла.jpg|thumb|right|110px|Saint [[Gerard Majella]]]]
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Montesquieu]], French writer (b. [[1689]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei]], Italian archaeologist (b. [[1675]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon]], French writer (b. [[1675]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Thomas Wilson (bishop)|Thomas Wilson]], Bishop of Sodor and Man (b. [[1663]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Johann David Köhler]], German historian (b. [[1684]])
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Richard Rawlinson]], English minister, antiquarian (b. [[1690]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Oudry]], French painter (b. [[1686]])
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Iyasu II]], Emperor of [[Ethiopia]] (b. c. [[1723]])
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu]], Canadian officer during the Seven Years' War (b. [[1711]])
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Edward Braddock]], British general (b. c. [[1695]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Jacques-Nompar III de Caumont, duc de La Force]], French nobleman (b. [[1714]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Francesco Durante]], Italian composer (b. [[1684]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Greene | first = David | title = Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers | publisher = Doubleday | location = Garden City, Efrog Newydd | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780385142786 | page=236 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Princess Marie Zéphyrine of France]], sister of [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] (b. [[1750]])
* [[September 8]]
**[[Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre]], Canadian military commander (b. [[1701]])
**[[Hendrick Theyanoguin]], Mohawk Council leader killed in the Battle of Lake George (b. c. [[1691]])
**[[Ephraim Williams]], American philanthropist (b. [[1715]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Johann Lorenz von Mosheim]], German historian (b. [[1694]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye]], French-Canadian explorer (b. [[1714]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz]], Austrian field marshal (b. [[1686]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Gerard Majella]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] lay brother and saint (b. [[1725]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Elisha Williams]], American rector of Yale College (b. [[1694]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Joseph Bodin de Boismortier]], French composer (b. [[1689]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Johann Georg Pisendel]], German musician (b. [[1687]])
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Maurice Greene (composer)|Maurice Greene]], English composer (b. [[1696]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire]] (b. [[1698]])
* ''approximate date'' 
** Queen [[Nanny of the Maroons]], Jamaican national heroine (b. [[1686]])
** [[Cai Wan]], politically influential Chinese poet (b. [[1695]])