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• Barbe VAN CAMPENHOUT, Watermaal-Bosvoorde, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest († 1808)
• Catharina de Haen, Bergen op Zoom
• Aaltjen van der Terweel, Wolvega, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Hendriks van der Terweel, Wolvega
• Cornelia Marinus BROSENS, Meer, Hoogstraten, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Elisabetha Henricus van Achel, Oirschot
• Gabriel Joffrion, Varennes, Verchères, Quebec, Canada († 1793)
• Ann Harleston († 1740)
• derk schuijling (tweeling), Elst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Hendriks Terweel, Wolvega, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland

• Marie FREPONGS (56), BAELEN-sur-VESDRE, Liège, Belgique
• Johannes Heering, Zwaag
• Peter Webb, Sr (59), Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
• Marie Frepongs (Fraipont) (56), Baelen (Lg.),, Liège, Belgique
• Maria Bettens (64), Buggenhout,,Sint Niklaas,Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen,België
• Pieter Jacobse de Corte (43), Vlissingen
• jan jansz laguer, charlois (Rotterdam)
• Johannes Heering (0), Zwaag, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Jansz Glasuur (27), Charlois, zh.nld
• Jan Van Den Bossche (72), Steenhuffel, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium

• 1663 » Cotton Mather, English-American minister and author († 1728)
• 1665 » Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician († 1721)
• 1704 » Charles Pinot Duclos, French author († 1772)
• 1706 » Johann Joseph Christian, German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver († 1777)
• 1728 » Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect († 1799)
• 1753 » François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral († 1798)
• 1761 » Jan Ladislav Dussek, Czech pianist and composer († 1812)
• 1768 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor († 1835)
• 1775 » Louisa Adams, English-American wife of John Quincy Adams, 6th First Lady of the United States († 1852)
• 1777 » Bernard Courtois, French chemist and academic († 1838)

• 1600 » Edward Denny, Knight Banneret of Bishop's Stortford, English soldier, privateer and adventurer (b. 1547)
• 1612 » Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (b. 1563)
• 1624 » George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist, founded George Heriot's School (b. 1563)
• 1713 » Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor (b. 1664)
• 1728 » Agostino Steffani, Italian priest and composer (b. 1653)
• 1763 » Pierre de Marivaux, French author and playwright (b. 1688)
• 1771 » Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (b. 1710)
• 1789 » Ethan Allen, American farmer, general, and politician (b. 1738)
• 1799 » Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist and physiologist (b. 1729)
• 1804 » Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1724)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 4 » The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht; Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17, 1716).
• March 2 » The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
• June 24 » The Premier Grand Lodge of England is founded in London, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England).
• July 17 » King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
• August 22 » Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
• September 29 » An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture.

The temperature on February 12, 1717 was about 0.0 °C.