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• Alida van den BERG, Dordrecht
• Andreas Bergen, Langdorp, Vlaams-Brabant, België († 1835)
• , Amerongen
• Adriana DALEBOUT, Westerenban, Zeeland, Nederland
• van der Klis van Papekop
• Anke Lammerts Hogeboom, Lutjegast († 1822)
• Ana Fonseca Cabral, Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, Brasil
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• Aart Hendriksz van Eck, Bennekom
• Aagtje Klaases [Bouwman], Ten Boer, Groningen, Netherlands

• Jane Fouston, Preston, East Yorkshire, England
• Hermanus Johanns VOSKAMP (37), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Henrich Linde (2), Wingeshausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Jan Berendszn. Hooikaas (60)
• Christiaan van Gorcum, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Heye Janssen (41), Oldendorf, Celle, Niedersachsen, Germany
• Christiaan Van Gorkem
• Fookeltje Gerrits (35), Kollum
• Jantje Derks Outhof (3)
• Jeanne Kinsky de Wchinitz et Tettau (79), Vienne (Wien), Vienne, Autriche

• 1680 » Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, 2nd Colonial Governor of Louisiana († 1767)
• 1685 » George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer († 1759)
• 1723 » Richard Price, Welsh-English minister and philosopher († 1791)
• 1744 » Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker and businessman († 1812)
• 1792 » José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general. President three times (1844–1854) († 1854)
• 1831 » Felicita Vestvali, German actress and opera singer († 1880)
• 1831 » Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter († 1915)
• 1840 » Carl Menger, Austrian economist and educator († 1921)
• 1842 » Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author († 1906)
• 1850 » César Ritz, Swiss businessman, founded The Ritz Hotel, London and Hôtel Ritz Paris († 1918)

• 1620 » Nicholas Fuller, English politician (b. 1543)
• 1704 » Georg Muffat, French organist and composer (b. 1653)
• 1766 » Stanisław Leszczyński, Polish king (b. 1677)
• 1781 » George Taylor, Irish-American blacksmith and politician (b. 1716)
• 1792 » Joshua Reynolds, English painter and academic (b. 1723)
• 1821 » John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
• 1848 » John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1855 » Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
• 1859 » Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1812)
• 1879 » Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (b. 1803)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• February 13 » Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into 2: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
• April 15 » Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
• July 9 » The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.
• July 25 » British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.
• August 10 » Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
• November 25 » King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.

The temperature on February 23, 1755 was about -3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: geheel betrokken.