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• Catharina Hansen, Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Sparla, Schin op Geul
• Elsje Willijns, AMSTERDAM, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1796)
• Gerrit Gerrits Krottje, Sint Annaparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna de Wijs (Weijs), Hooge-Zwaluwe († 1718)
• Adriana Leestmans, Vleuten-de Meern
• Catharijn Adriaans Verkaer, Ginneken en Bavel († 1795)
• Arie Jacobsz Hoogvliet, oud-beijerland (zuid holland) († 1793)
• Catharina Dielen, Moerstraten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carl Langemijhr, Riddarholmen, Stockholms, Zweden

• Gezine Hendriks, Zwolle
• Augustinus van Son, Geertruidenberg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Theodorus Derickx (41), Aldekerk, Noordrijn-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Gezina Hendriks, zwolle
• Mary Susannah Hyde (38), Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Élisabeth de Moras (50), chât. de Morcheval, Chamboret, 87033, France
• Susanna VerCauteren (46), Temse
• Anna de Wijs (de Weijs) (0), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Samuel Anger (63)
• Joannes Staut (83), Temse

• 1675 » Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, Margravine of Baden-Baden († 1733)
• 1714 » Anna Morandi Manzolini, Spanish anatomist († 1774)
• 1717 » Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, Spanish military officer and governor of Cuba († 1779)
• 1721 » James Murray, Scottish-English general and politician, Governor of Minorca († 1794)
• 1724 » Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French rococo painter († 1805)
• 1732 » Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, son of Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, and Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis († 1797)
• 1738 » Ethan Allen, American general († 1789)
• 1741 » Chaim of Volozhin, Orthodox rabbi († 1821)
• 1763 » Augustin Robespierre, younger brother of French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre († 1794)
• 1775 » Manuel Garcia, Spanish opera singer and composer († 1832)

• 1670 » Claude Duval, French highwayman (b. 1643)
• 1683 » Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1621)
• 1699 » Obadiah Walker, English historian and academic (b. 1616)
• 1706 » Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
• 1710 » Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic and critic (b. 1638)
• 1722 » Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1661)
• 1731 » Ignjat Đurđević, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1675)
• 1773 » Alexis Piron, French playwright and author (b. 1689)
• 1774 » Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1717)
• 1775 » Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel (b. 1742)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• May 7 » The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
• May 15 » James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
• June 26 » Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
• July 21 » The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
• November 22 » Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
• December 17 » War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.

The temperature on January 21, 1718 was about 2.0 °C.