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• Alef Teunissen op de Grote Haer, Ruurlo
• Cornelis Isaac Thooft, Hardenberg, Nedersaksen († 1786)
• Emerens Martens van den Berg, Naarden († 1788)
• Anna Maria Waldner von Freundstein, Schmieheim, Ribeauvillé, Haut-Rhin, Elzas, Frankrijk († 1747)
• Altien Nijsink, Brucht, Hardenberg
• Anna Maria Waldner van Freundstein, Schmieheim, Baden-Württemberg († 1747)
• Dirck de Graaf, Leiden,Gemeente Leiden,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Dirck Badou, Leiden, Hooglandsche kerk
• Aaltjen van Eijkel, Zutphen († 1786)
• Cornelius Van Laere, Vrasene († 1793)

• Marija van Dijk, Rotterdam
• Adriaantje Jacobus van der Boon (1)
• Peter Minnen (39), Baarle-Nassau, Noord-Babant, Nederland
• Nicolaus Vermeer (1), Zevenaar
• pieter fredericksz neukerk (niekerk, nuekerck) (39), jakarta,, indonesia (nederlands indie)
• Louise Eugénie de Vielchastel
• Gijsbert de Zeeuw (38), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Leendert Ossewaarde
• Christiaan van de Blocquery (66), Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands
• Euphrosina Kluge (57), Eibenstock, Sachsen, Deutschland

• 1653 » Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland († 1697)
• 1688 » Alexander Pope, English poet, essayist, and translator († 1744)
• 1755 » Alfred Moore, American lawyer and judge († 1810)
• 1756 » William Babington, Irish-born, English physician and mineralogist († 1833)
• 1763 » Joseph Fouché, French lawyer and politician († 1820)
• 1775 » Lucien Bonaparte, French soldier and politician († 1840)
• 1780 » Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, philanthropist and Quaker († 1845)
• 1790 » William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Lord Chamberlain of the Household († 1858)
• 1792 » Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer († 1843)
• 1799 » Mary Anning, English paleontologist († 1847)

• 1650 » James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish general and politician (b. 1612)
• 1664 » Elizabeth Poole, English settler, founded Taunton, Massachusetts (b. 1588)
• 1670 » Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
• 1686 » Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor of the Magdeburg Hemispheres (b. 1602)
• 1690 » John Eliot, English-American minister and missionary (b. 1604)
• 1719 » Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
• 1724 » Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1742 » Lars Roberg, Swedish physician and academic (b. 1664)
• 1762 » Alexander Joseph Sulkowski, Polish and Saxon general (b. 1695)
• 1771 » Christopher Smart, English actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1722)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• August 1 » George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
• August 7 » The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
• September 11 » Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• September 18 » George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1.

The temperature on May 21, 1714 was about 12.0 °C.