About the day » Wednesday April 2, 1721Calender converter

• Elisabeth Christiaans Jacob Hartman, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1798)
• Anna Chatarina Voes, OPheers
• Antje van 't Klooster, Soest
• Dorothea Fenneman
• Catherine LETRONNE, Bellevaux-Ligneuville,4960,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE († 1739)
• Daniel Hooft, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth (Liijsebet) Christiaans Hartman, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1798)
• Anna Margaretha Muller, Weilbach, Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hessen, Germany
• Anna Maria Delbeke († 1787)
• Anne ter Schegget, Lochem

• Cornelis Arentsz van der Kooij (1), De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Andries Olkes de Vries (3)
• Berend Daniels Cremer (72), Deventer, Overijssel, netherlands
• Abraham Jansz Konijnenburg (50), Cool
• abraham jansz KONIJNENBURG (50), hillegersberg
• Gertrudis Jans Ruijter (34), Eemnes
• Heijndrick Huijbertsz Briole van der Poel (63), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dieuwert Gerrits, Lutjebroek
• Catharina Teggers, Langdorp,, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Adolph Samuël van Hugenpoth (64)

• 1647 » Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Dutch botanist and illustrator († 1717)
• 1653 » Prince George of Denmark († 1708)
• 1696 » Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian operatic soprano († 1778)
• 1719 » Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet († 1803)
• 1725 » Giacomo Casanova, Italian explorer and author († 1798)
• 1788 » Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet and author († 1862)
• 1788 » Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist († 1848)
• 1789 » Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentinian general and politician († 1871)
• 1792 » Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada († 1840)
• 1798 » August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and academic († 1874)

• 1657 » Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1608)
• 1657 » Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest, founded the Society of Saint-Sulpice (b. 1608)
• 1672 » Diego Luis de San Vitores, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1627)
• 1672 » Pedro Calungsod, Filipino missionary and saint (b. 1654)
• 1720 » Joseph Dudley, English politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1647)
• 1742 » James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
• 1747 » Johann Jacob Dillenius, German-English botanist and mycologist (b. 1684)
• 1754 » Thomas Carte, English historian and author (b. 1686)
• 1787 » Thomas Gage, English general and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1719)
• 1791 » Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (b. 1749)

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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 April 2, 1721 was about 12.0 °C.