About the day » Friday October 24, 1721Calender converter

• Agnes BICKER, Amsterdam, Nieuwezijds Kapel
• Claes de Ruijter, Blokzijl
• Bastiaan Star, Amsterdam († 1752)
• Arij Ariensz. van Egmond, Veur RK († 1760)
• Cornelia Francisca Valop, Assenede, OVL.BE
• Arie Arensz van Egmond, Veur († 1797)
• Claes Coenders de Ruiter, Blokzijl, Brederwiede, Overijsel, Nederland
• Adrianus Aritsz van Egmond, Veur († 1797)
• Adrianus Arisz van Egmond, Veur († 1797)
• Adrianus Arisz van Egmond, Leidschendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1797)

• Dirck Jansz Najen (2), Andel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gerrit Gijsbertsz BESEMER (64), Papendrecht,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Grace Tileston (27), Boston, Suffolk Cnty, Massachusetts, Colonial America
• Gerrit Gijsbertsz Besemer (64), papendrecht (zuid holland)
• Gerrit ten Cate (57), Borne
• Aaltje Dirksdr Steenvoorden (24), Katwijk aan Zee
• Anne Bartlett (37), Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts
• Catherine BRIAULT (0), Bléré, 37150, France
• Heinrich Sigismund de BAR (67)
• Dirck Huijbrechtsz. van der Tol, Maassluis

• 1632 » Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist († 1723)
• 1637 » Lorenzo Magalotti, Italian philosopher († 1712)
• 1650 » Steven Blankaart, Dutch entomologist († 1704)
• 1675 » Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire († 1749)
• 1713 » Marie Fel, French soprano and actress († 1794)
• 1763 » Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator († 1839)
• 1784 » Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker († 1885)
• 1788 » Sarah Josepha Hale, American author and poet († 1879)
• 1798 » Massimo d'Azeglio, Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter († 1866)
• 1804 » Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic († 1891)

• 1601 » Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (b. 1546)
• 1633 » Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (b. 1562/3)
• 1642 » Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English peer and courtier (b. 1582)
• 1655 » Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1592)
• 1669 » William Prynne, English lawyer and author (b. 1600)
• 1672 » John Webb, English architect and scholar (b. 1611)
• 1725 » Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1660)
• 1799 » Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1739)
• 1821 » Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
• 1824 » Israel Bissell, American patriot post rider during American Revolutionary War (b. 1752)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 6 » The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings, revealing details of fraud among company directors and corrupt politicians.
• March 24 » Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
• April 4 » Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.
• April 26 » A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
• August 18 » The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
• October 22 » Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.

The temperature on October 24, 1721 was about 10.0 °C.