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Born on Sunday August 14, 1701
- Aldegundis van Hulst, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Anna Soetelief, Den Helder († 1701)
- Antje Jongewaard, Westzaan
- Aaltje Teunissen (Gerrits), Ermelo († 1763)
- Antonie Sturmezand, Sint Maartensdijk, 4695, Nederland († 1754)
- Anna Christina van Oorden, Kolberg, Beeskow-Storkow, Brandenburg, Duitsland († 1785)
- Annetje van den Berg, Kralingen bij Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Antonie Hendricks (Antoni) Stormezand (Sturmezand, Stormesand), Sint-Maartensdijk, Nederland († 1754)
- Adriaen Palamedus, 's-Grevelduin-Capelle
- Anthonie Sturmezand, Sint-Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1754)
Died on Sunday August 14, 1701
- Ignace Joseph DELEBAR (0), Lille (Saint-Maurice), 59350, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- Zoon de Ridder (0)
- Jan Naardenburg (0), Lisse
- Jan van Soest (41)
- Anna Adriani Floris (45), Zundert, Nederland
- Johannes Martinus Hartzema (0), Eenrum
- Aaltje van Drunen (1), Almkerk
- N.N., Schönhausen (Elbe),Stendal,Sachsen-Anhalt,Bundesrepublick Deutschland
- Jan Leenderts LEMS (2)
- Adriaen Leendertsz Kuijsten (1), Baardwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
Born on August 14
- 1625 » François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop († 1695)
- 1642 » Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany († 1723)
- 1645 » Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican secular priest, scientist, and savant († 1700)
- 1653 » Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica († 1688)
- 1688 » Frederick William I of Prussia († 1740)
- 1714 » Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter († 1789)
- 1738 » Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer and conductor († 1793)
- 1740 » Pope Pius VII († 1823)
- 1758 » Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer († 1835)
- 1777 » Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist († 1851)
Died on August 14
- 1573 » Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyō (b. 1548)
- 1657 » Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, 57th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1560)
- 1691 » Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1630)
- 1727 » William Croft, English organist and composer (b. 1678)
- 1774 » Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (b. 1716)
- 1784 » Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-born English painter and academic (b. 1718)
- 1854 » Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)
- 1856 » Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (b. 1787)
- 1860 » André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)
- 1870 » David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
Names that were popular for boys in 1701
- Jan
- Cornelis
- Joannes
- Johannes
- Pieter
- Petrus
- Willem
- Jacob
- Jacobus
- Jean
- Hendrik
- Gerrit
- John
- Johann
- Pierre
- Thomas
Names that were popular for girls in 1701
- Maria
- Anna
- Marie
- Catharina
- Elisabeth
- Joanna
- Cornelia
- Neeltje
- Johanna
- Jannetje
- Anne
- Grietje
- Elizabeth
- Mary
- Trijntje
- Petronella
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1701
- Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- January 18 » Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
- July 9 » A Bourbon force under Nicolas Catinat withdraws from a smaller Habsburg force under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Battle of Carpi.
- July 24 » Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
- August 4 » Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
- September 16 » James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
- October 9 » The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.