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• Gerardus Andrea van de Weijgert, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Evertje Aartsen van Dijk, Veenendaal
• Antonio Alvares, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil
• Evertje Hendriksen, Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Jacobs, Boechout, Antwerpen, België († 1790)
• Antonia Joannes VERHOEVEN, Schijndel, 4178, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1791)
• Harmen JACOBS, Stitswerd, Kantens, Eemsmond, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonia Joannes Antoni Verhoeven, Schijndel
• Hannah Harlow
• Elisabetha Petri Melgers, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1792)

• Cornelia Thuysbaert (32), Gent
• Henricus Schiphorst
• Maria van HOOYDONCK (54), Wuustwezel, Antwerpen, België
• Jeanne Faucheux (66), La Pérade, 1654506, Quebec, Canada
• Daam Pietersz Berghman, Zouteveen
• Maria Cornelis Thomas van Hooijdonck (54), Wuustwezel (B)
• Richard Smith (50), Northumberland, Virginia, United States
• Petronella Rosa Thuysbaert (34), Stekene
• Tietje Pieters Manninga (62), Amsterdam
• Jan Pietersz KRIJGH (43)

• 1688 » Gyeongjong of Joseon, 20th king of the Joseon Dynasty († 1724)
• 1715 » Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer († 1799)
• 1726 » Oliver Wolcott, American politician († 1797)
• 1733 » Philip Schuyler, American general and senator († 1804)
• 1737 » José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer († 1799)
• 1739 » Jean-François de La Harpe, French writer and literary critic († 1803)
• 1748 » Jean-François de Bourgoing, French diplomat, writer and translator († 1811)
• 1750 » Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler († 1799)
• 1752 » Thomas Chatterton, English poet († 1770)
• 1753 » Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince of Wagram († 1815)

• 1662 » Leopold Wilhelm, Austrian duke and governor (b. 1614)
• 1678 » Karel Dujardin, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 1622)
• 1695 » Zumbi, Brazilian king (b. 1655)
• 1704 » Charles Plumier, French botanist and painter (b. 1646)
• 1737 » Caroline of Ansbach, queen of England and Ireland (b. 1683)
• 1742 » Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (b. 1661)
• 1758 » Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish violinist and composer (b. 1694)
• 1764 » Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician and theorist (b. 1690)
• 1773 » Charles Jennens, English landowner and patron of the arts
• 1778 » Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (b. 1726)

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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 November 20, 1721 was about 9.0 °C.