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• Catharina Sophia Bresser, Borken, Noordrijn-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1765)
• Jacobus Vermunt, Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1759)
• Cornelius van den Bergh, Holtum, Limburg, Niederlande
• Anna Aplonia Bus, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Geertruij Robool, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands († 1771)
• François LECAT, Audembert (62)
• Eleonora Gijsen, Bree
• Godefridus Clement, Aarle-Rixel, Nbr.NL
• Gerardus Abraham SEVENHUIJSEN, Amsterdam
• Elisabeth Weber, Feudingen, Kreis Wittgenstein

• Cornelis Aryensz. van Rijselberch (59), Delft
• Madeleine GARNIER (56), Kelze, Hofgeismar, Kassel, Hessen, Germany
• Philippe BRUYERE (66), Châbons,38690,Isère,Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,FRANCE
• Cornelia de Huijbert (71), Zierikzee, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Daam JONGENEEL
• Aletta Margaretha de Bitter
• Pieter Claesz van der Valck (24), Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ma(g)deleine Garnier (56), Kelze, Kelze, Duitsland
• Leendert van der Meulen, Scheveningen ('s-Gravenhage) (Zuid-Holland)
• Bastiaan Leendertsdr Zandweg (58), Barendrecht

• 1621 » Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, etcher, and poet († 1674)
• 1631 » John Dryden, English poet, literary critic and playwright († 1700)
• 1646 » John Flamsteed, English astronomer and academic († 1719)
• 1686 » Eustace Budgell, English journalist and politician († 1737)
• 1689 » Samuel Richardson, English author and publisher († 1761)
• 1711 » Edward Boscawen, English admiral and politician († 1761)
• 1719 » Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat († 1791)
• 1743 » Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France († 1793)
• 1777 » Francis I, king of the Two Sicilies († 1830)
• 1815 » Harriette Newell Woods Baker, American editor and children's book writer († 1893)

• 1580 » Andrea Palladio, Italian architect, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore (b. 1508)
• 1646 » Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian and academic (b. 1583)
• 1654 » Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
• 1662 » Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
• 1680 » Jean Eudes, French priest, founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (b. 1601)
• 1691 » Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman commander and politician, 117th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1637)
• 1702 » Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1645)
• 1753 » Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (b. 1687)
• 1808 » Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (b. 1721)
• 1822 » Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)

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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.
• 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.
• November 30 » King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.
• December 17 » War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.

The temperature on August 19, 1718 was about 22.0 °C.