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• Adrianus Vleminckx, Nattenhaasdonk, Hingene, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1807)
• Anna Bouwen, Herenthout, België († 1763)
• Antonius Collignon, Luik, België († 1805)
• Alice Seymour, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut († 1766)
• Adriaen Adriaen Cornelissen, Wuustwezel (B)
• Jacob Herlong Sr. († 1784)
• Catharina van den Born, Wageningen
• Arnoldus Faessen (Janssen op de Rijdt), Tegelen
• Henrica Burmanje, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne NIEUL, ( Saint-Martin-du-Clocher, 16700, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France († 1720)

• Catharina Dingeman van Riel (68), Essen, Antwerpen, België
• Claes Claessen van Veen (60), Loosduinen (Monster), Nederland
• Claes Claesz. van Veen (60), Monster
• Cornelius Melchior Cornelissen Breugelmans (6), Roosendaal
• Petronella Quaedvlieg (48), Heerlen, Niederlande
• Leendert van der Houve (63), Delft, Oude Kerk
• Petronella Quadflieg (48), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Lievense Van Cauteren (35), Hulst, Nederland
• Judoca Moens (0), Lebbeke
• Claes van Veen (60), Monster/Loosduinen

• 1638 » Zeb-un-Nissa, Mughal princess and poet († 1702)
• 1705 » Charles-André van Loo, French painter († 1765)
• 1710 » Louis XV of France († 1774)
• 1725 » Abraham Clark, American surveyor, lawyer, and politician († 1794)
• 1734 » William Stacy, American colonel († 1802)
• 1739 » Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect, designed the Paris Bourse († 1813)
• 1748 » Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and philosopher († 1832)
• 1759 » Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist and critic († 1824)
• 1760 » Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer and educator († 1837)
• 1797 » Henry E. Steinway, German-American businessman, founded Steinway & Sons († 1871)

• 1600 » José de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (b. 1540)
• 1621 » Michael Praetorius, German organist and composer (b. 1571)
• 1637 » Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
• 1738 » Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
• 1781 » Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1729)
• 1818 » Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (b. 1746)
• 1835 » Henry Hunt, English farmer and politician (b. 1773)
• 1839 » François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, Canadian rebel (b. 1803)
• 1842 » Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist (b. 1754)
• 1844 » Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)

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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 31 » A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
• 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 17 » Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire.
• September 29 » An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture.

The temperature on February 15, 1717 was about 2.0 °C.