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Born on Wednesday August 26, 1676
- Ariaantje Gerrits van Kempen, Maassluis
- Aeriaantje Gerritsdr van Kampen, Maassluis
- Agnes Claas Schuijf, Wervershoof
- Robert Viscount Walpole Earl van Orford, Houghton, Norfolk († 1745)
- Gerardus de Loose, Hontenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
- Agnes Claas Nicolai, Wervershoof, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Barbara van Huffel, Kruispolder
- Catharina Pieters Kemp, Blokland
- Jacoba Schepens, Wetteren (Westrem), OVld, Be († 1676)
- Agnes Nicolai, Wervershoof, Noord-holland, Nederland
Died on Wednesday August 26, 1676
- Christianus Cornelis Cornelis Mercx 's Grauwen (14), Zundert Noord Brabant (NL)
- Geertruyd Wouter Joost Willems Sgrauwen (de Grau) (39), Klein Zundert
- Edouard de Berty
- Geertruijd Wouter Joost Willem Schrauwen (39), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Aelken Frans Bluijssen (Cocx) (49), Leende
- Antoinette CLIQUET (56), Roucourt, 59513, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- Cornelis Willems (45), Maldegem,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
- Alida van Amstel (66)
- Aldegunde Bluijssen (49), Leende
- Geertruyd Wouter Joost Willems Sgrauwen (de Grau) (39), Klein-Zundert, Nederland
Born on August 26
- 1582 » Humilis of Bisignano, Italian Franciscan friar and saint († 1637)
- 1596 » Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king († 1632)
- 1676 » Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1745)
- 1694 » Elisha Williams, English colonial minister, academic, and politician († 1755)
- 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)
Died on August 26
- 1551 » Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
- 1572 » Petrus Ramus, French philosopher and logician (b. 1515)
- 1595 » António, Prior of Crato (b. 1531)
- 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)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1676
- Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- February 17 » Sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition are lost at Evangelistas Islets at the western end of the Strait of Magellan.
- June 1 » Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
- June 2 » Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
- July 30 » Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- September 19 » Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
- December 4 » The Danish army under the command of King Christian V engages the Swedish army commanded by the Swedish king Charles XI at the Battle of Lund, to this day it is counted as the bloodiest battle in Scandinavian history and a turning point in the Scanian War.