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• Benedictus Grillet, Westrozebeke,8840,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1800)
• Adrianus Joannis Kerckhoff, Sint-Oedenrode, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1777)
• Jan Floreszn Waasdorp, Noordwijk
• hinderkien jans, nieuwe pekela
• Jan Floreszn van Waasdorp, Noordwijk
• Jan Flore Waasdorp, Noordwijk
• Balthasar Meyer, Culitzsch, Zwickauer Land, Sachsen, Deutschland († 1785)
• Antonis Franciscus Bierens, Eersel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1761)
• Gennevieve LAMASURE MASURE, Doudeville,76560,Seine-Maritime,Normandie,FRANCE († 1778)
• Francisca CROMBE, Velzeke, 9620, Flandre-Orientale, Belgique

• Jan (Johan) Bruno van der Dussen (45)
• Helena Koerten Ruvenkamp, Beek
• Elizabeth Whittington (43), Sedbergh, Yorkshire, England
• Johan Cornelis d' Ablaing (57), Batavia, Indonesië
• Adriana Schoenmakers, Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gesien Willems (67)
• "Nicolaus Jansen" Claes Jans Claes Jans, Schijndel
• Gesien Garbrants
• Maria Theodoor Haansbergen (39), Loon op Zand, North Brabant, Nederland
• Isabella De Neve (35), Ursel,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België

• 1653 » Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland († 1697)
• 1688 » Alexander Pope, English poet, essayist, and translator († 1744)
• 1755 » Alfred Moore, American lawyer and judge († 1810)
• 1756 » William Babington, Irish-born, English physician and mineralogist († 1833)
• 1763 » Joseph Fouché, French lawyer and politician († 1820)
• 1775 » Lucien Bonaparte, French soldier and politician († 1840)
• 1780 » Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, philanthropist and Quaker († 1845)
• 1790 » William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Lord Chamberlain of the Household († 1858)
• 1792 » Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer († 1843)
• 1799 » Mary Anning, English paleontologist († 1847)

• 1664 » Elizabeth Poole, English settler, founded Taunton, Massachusetts (b. 1588)
• 1670 » Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
• 1686 » Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor of the Magdeburg Hemispheres (b. 1602)
• 1690 » John Eliot, English-American minister and missionary (b. 1604)
• 1719 » Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
• 1724 » Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1742 » Lars Roberg, Swedish physician and academic (b. 1664)
• 1762 » Alexander Joseph Sulkowski, Polish and Saxon general (b. 1695)
• 1771 » Christopher Smart, English actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1722)
• 1786 » Carl Wilhelm Scheele, German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (b. 1742)

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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 May 21, 1721 was about 15.0 °C.