Anniversarial — 2014
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Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2014:
Births
- Adhémar de Monteil de Brunier, Alexandre d’, comte de Marsanne (born 1714–died after 1792), French — courtier, army officer
- Baraban, André Jacques (born 1714–died 1788), Swiss — politician
- Bastiani, Giovanni Battista (born 1714–died 1786), Italian — churchman, soldier, courtier, army officer, diplomat
- Bathurst, Henry, 2nd Earl Bathurst (born 1714–died 1794), English — aristocrat, lawyer, politician, member of Parliament, civil servant, judge
- Bourette, Charlotte [née Reynier] (born 1714–died 1784), French — café owner, poet, tradesman
- Brancas, Diane Adélaïde de, duchesse de Villars-Brancas [née de Mailly-Nesle] (born 1714–died 1769), French — aristocrat
- Burnett, George, 3rd laird of Kemnay (born 1714–died 1780), Scottish — landowner, agriculturalist
- Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo (born 1714–died 1799), Scottish — lawyer, judge, philosopher
- Chauvelin, Henri Philippe, abbé Chauvelin (born 1714–died 1770), French — lawyer, churchman, Jansenist
- Cibber, Susannah Maria [née Arne] (born 1714–died 1766), English — actor, singer
- Cole, Reverend William (born 1714–died 1782), English — antiquarian
- Corbin, Richard (born 1714–died 1790), unknown nationality & occupation
- Dangeville, Marie Anne [née Dangeville] (born 1714–died 1796), French — actor, hôte-du-salon
- Descamps, Jean Baptiste (born 1714–died 1791), French — painter, educational founder, school teacher, historian, academy member
- Distroff, François Michel Durand de (born 1714–died 1778), French — diplomat
- Durfort, Louis de, duc de Lorges (born 1714), French — aristocrat, army officer
- Duval d'Eprémesnil, Jacques (born 1714–died 1764), French — traveller, civil servant, mercenary
- Fessard, Étienne (born 1714–died 1777), French — engraver
- Feudrix de Bréquigny, Louis Georges Oudard (born 1714–died 1795), French — antiquarian, scholar, academic
- Finck, Carl Wilhelm, graf von Finckenstein (born 1714–died 1800), German — government minister
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald von (born 1714–died 1787), German — composer
- Harcourt, Simon, 1st Earl Harcourt (born 1714–died 1777), English — aristocrat, diplomat, army officer, colonial administrator
- Howard, Lieutenant-general Thomas, 2 earl of Effingham (born 1714–died 1763), English — aristocrat, army officer
- Langes de Montmirail, Charles Benjamin de, baron de Lubières (born 1714–died 1790), French — aristocrat, scholar, academic
- La Porte, Joseph de, abbé de La Porte (born 1714–died 1779), French — journalist, critic
- Le Clerc de La Bruère, Charles Antoine (born 1714–died 1754), French — author, playwright, librettist, editor
- Lentulus, Robert Scipio von (born 1714–died 1786), Swiss — soldier, army officer, soldier
- Loppin, Charles Catherine, baron de Gemeaux (born 1714–died 1805), French — aristocrat, lawyer
- Marsy, François Marie de (born 1714–died 1763), French — author, historian
- Maupeou, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de, marquis de Morangles (born 1714–died 1792), French — aristocrat, politician
- Mignot de Montigny, Étienne (born 1714–died 1782), French — engineer, geographer
- Ogilvy, James, 6th earl of Findlater and 3rd of Seafield (born c. 1714–died 1770), Scottish — aristocrat, agriculturalist
- Pigalle, Jean Baptiste (born 1714–died 1785), French — sculptor
- Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden (born 1714–died 1794), English — aristocrat, lawyer, politician, member of Parliament, civil servant
- Prault, Mme — [née unknown] (born c. 1714), French — home-maker
- Richardson, Elizabeth [née Leake] (born 1714–died 1773), English — home-maker
- Roguin, Augustin Gabriel (born 1714–died 1796), Swiss — army officer
- Romilly, Jean (born 1714–died 1796), Swiss — clockmaker, tradesman
- Rouvroy de Saint-Simon, Louis Gabriel, marquis de Saint-Simon-Montbléru (born c. 1714–died 1775), French — aristocrat, army officer
- Sacconay, Marc Charles Frédéric de (born 1714–died 1788), Swiss — civil servant
- Shenstone, William (born 1714–died 1763), English — landscape gardener, poet, horticulture
- Shipley, Reverend Doctor Jonathan (born 1714–died 1788), English — churchman, bishop, political radical
- Silva y Álvarez de Toledo, Fernando de, duque de Alba (born 1714–died 1776), Spanish — army officer, diplomat, patron
- Stanhope, Philip, 2nd Earl Stanhope (born 1714–died 1787), English — aristocrat, academy member
- Stanley, John (born 1714–died 1786), English — organist, musician, composer
- Sterne, Elizabeth [née Lumley] (born 1714–died 1773), English — home-maker
- Stolberg, Christian Günther, graf von Stolberg (born 1714–died 1765), German — aristocrat
- Targe, Jean Baptiste (born 1714–died 1788), French — author, historian, clockmaker, mathematician, tradesman
- Vernet, Claude Joseph (born 1714–died 1789), French — painter
- Winthrop, Professor John (born 1714–died 1779), American — mathematician, physicist, astronomer
Deaths
- Anne, queen of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1665–died 1714), English — monarch
- Churchill, John (born c. 1663–died c. 1714), English — bookseller
- Davenant, Charles (born 1656–died 1714), English — civil servant, economist, political author, politician, member of Parliament, political author
- Fowler, Edward, bishop of Gloucester (born 1632–died 1714), English — churchman, religious controversialist
- Furly, Benjamin (born 1636–died 1714), English — merchant, author
- Gould, William (born c. 1662–died 1714), English — unknown occupation
- Homrigh, Esther van [née unknown] (died 1714), Irish — home-maker
- Mackenzie, George, 1st Viscount Tarbat (born 1630–died 1714), Scottish — politician, judge, scholar, academic
- Pope, Walter (born c. 1627–died 1714), English — astronomer, university teacher, academy member
- Swift, Deane [the elder] (born 1674–died 1714), Irish — gentleman
- Turner, Thomas (born 1645–died 1714), English — university administrator
