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• Bastiaan Pietersz van der Jagt, Goudswaard, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Batha Jacoba Maasman, Den Haag-Zuid-Holland-NL († 1791)
• Apollonia van Haastregt, Voorschoten
• Adriana, Maria De Bisschop, Moorsel
• Arien Cornelisse Ros, Scheveningen, Nederland († 1793)
• Cornelia VAN AGTMAAL, Essen, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1781)
• Averilla Smithson, St Johns Par, Baltimore, Maryland, United States († 1782)
• Aagje Flore (Aagtje) Koper, Bloemendaal, Noord Holland Nederland († 1788)
• Brandje Hendriks Bouwmeester, Barneveld
• Anna Magdalena Oppermann, Osterode am Harz Lasfelde (Du)

• Louis HARDION (56), Athée-sur-Cher, 37270, France
• Maria de Tytz, Berg en Terblijt
• Josijna de Doelder, Terneuzen
• Jacobus Devos (43), Torhout, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Amelberga Daens (71), Waasmunster (Oost-Vlaanderen, België)
• Georg Ludwig Fuchs (0), Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Mary Cutting (86), Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
• Elizabeth Brooke (63), Ireland
• Gerck JANS (8), Ie (Ee), East-Dongeradiel, Dongeradiel, Fryslân, Nederland
• Arnoldus Versleyen (55), Venray

• 1635 » Elizabeth Stuart, second daughter of King Charles I of England († 1650)
• 1651 » Johann Krieger, German organist and composer († 1735)
• 1655 » Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk († 1698)
• 1665 » George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire († 1716)
• 1722 » Eliza Lucas, Caribbean-American agriculturalist († 1793)
• 1763 » John Molson, English-Canadian brewer, founded the Molson Brewery († 1836)
• 1775 » Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Swiss banker and photographer († 1863)
• 1789 » Catharine Maria Sedgwick, American novelist of "domestic fiction" († 1867)
• 1798 » Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer and mathematician († 1844)
• 1818 » Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist and academic († 1897)

• 1663 » Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)
• 1671 » Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German scholar and critic (b. 1611)
• 1694 » Mary II of England (b. 1662)
• 1703 » Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
• 1706 » Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (b. 1647)
• 1708 » Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist and mycologist (b. 1656)
• 1715 » William Carstares, Scottish minister and academic (b. 1649)
• 1734 » Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (b. 1671)
• 1736 » Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)
• 1785 » Peter Ernst Wilde, Polish-Estonian physician and journalist (b. 1732)

1. Jan
2. Cornelis
3. Joannes
4. Pieter
5. Johannes
6. Petrus
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Hendrik
10. Jean
11. Gerrit
12. Jacobus
13. Johann
14. John
15. Pierre
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Marie
4. Catharina
5. Elisabeth
6. Joanna
7. Johanna
8. Cornelia
9. Neeltje
10. Mary
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Elizabeth
14. Jannetje
15. Anne
16. Adriana

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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 December 28, 1721 was about 8.0 °C.