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• Elisabet van Schaak, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelis Waalboer, Dordrecht, Nederland
• Elisabeth van SCHAACK, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ahimaaz Punderson, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• "Johanna" Joanna Lucas Joanna Lucas, Beek en Donk, NL († 1832)
• adrianus nicolaas van Chaam, Etten-leur († 1804)
• Claas Noorlander, Hillegersberg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1829)
• Adriana Leijnsdr Eversdijk, Kloetinge
• Benoit Peereboom, Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, Graafschap Vlaanderen († 1827)
• Cornelis Verschoor, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Esther Gates (29), Millington Parish, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
• Anna Maria Johannes van der Voort (42), Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Joannes van Duijnhoven (0), Stiphout
• Geertje Oudenes (55), Waarder
• Dingena Wouters Raven den (68), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes (Agnis) Geissen (Geezen, Gijssen), Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jacobus Krol, Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alexander Mills (78), Wilkes, Georgia, United States
• Jacobus DE CEULENAERE (62), Maldegem,9990,Oost-Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Douwe Hanses FABER (67), Bolsward Friesland Netherlands

• 1695 » Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, French singer-songwriter († 1791)
• 1728 » Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1777)
• 1736 » Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist and geologist († 1790)
• 1740 » Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon († 1810)
• 1743 » Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist († 1794)
• 1751 » Manuel Abad y Queipo, Spanish-born Mexican bishop († 1825)
• 1775 » William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic († 1851)
• 1792 » Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay († 1857)
• 1797 » Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia († 1879)
• 1819 » Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom († 1861)

• 1666 » Frans Hals, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1580)
• 1714 » Constantin Brâncoveanu, Ruler of Wallachia (b. 1654)
• 1714 » Edward Fowler, English bishop and author (b. 1632)
• 1723 » Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)
• 1785 » George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1716)
• 1810 » Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)
• 1813 » Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (b. 1791)
• 1850 » Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
• 1865 » Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)
• 1878 » Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)

1. Jan
2. Joannes
3. Pieter
4. Cornelis
5. Johannes
6. Hendrik
7. Jacob
8. Willem
9. Petrus
10. Gerrit
11. Jacobus
12. Jean
13. John
14. Dirk
15. Johann
16. Klaas

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Marie
4. Johanna
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Grietje
10. Trijntje
11. Adriana
12. Neeltje
13. Jannetje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Aaltje

• 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)
• January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
• January 16 » Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
• May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
• June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
• June 23 » Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
• December 5 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.

The temperature on August 26, 1757 was about 14.0 °C. There was 24 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.