About the day » Tuesday July 1, 1721Calender converter

• Harm Jans Pinksterboer-, Veendam, Nederland († 1786)
• Gideon Newton, Marlboro, Massachusetts († 1798)
• Elizabeth Langdon, Boston, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Kool, Huisduinen († 1781)
• Antonius (Antoniij) Kouwenberg Couwenbergh Cauwenbergh, Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1771)
• Hendricus van Boekel, Stratum, Noord-Brabant, Nl († 1728)
• Gerret Claesz RUYGHROCK, Rotterdam
• Frans van SCHEERS, Dordrecht († 1809)
• Anna Norbertina De Rijck, Erembodegem,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Elisabeth Mechteld JORDENS

• Catharina Fenne Frieswijk (2)
• Johan Georg Heereman van Wimpffen (64)
• Elisabeth GAZET (34)
• Cornelis Pietersz Rodenburg (31), Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Geertje Lucasse Verkoorn (47)
• Geertrui Dingemans Schoenmaeckers (32), Raamsdonksveer, Provincie Noord Brabant Nederland
• Elisabeth van Acker (40), Bazel
• Attje Pieters Adam (68), Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands
• Johann Georg von Wimpffen (64)
• Christina (Catharina) Francisca Van Mele (2), Waasmunster

• 1646 » Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher († 1716)
• 1663 » Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist († 1738)
• 1725 » Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general († 1807)
• 1725 » Rhoda Delaval, English painter and aristrocrat († 1757)
• 1731 » Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish-English admiral († 1804)
• 1742 » Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic († 1799)
• 1771 » Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer and conductor († 1839)
• 1788 » Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer († 1867)
• 1804 » Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician († 1886)
• 1804 » George Sand, French author and playwright († 1876)

• 1614 » Isaac Casaubon, French philologist and scholar (b. 1559)
• 1622 » William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (b. 1575)
• 1681 » Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (b. 1629)
• 1736 » Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1673)
• 1774 » Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1705)
• 1782 » Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English admiral and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1730)
• 1784 » Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German organist and composer (b. 1710)
• 1787 » Charles de Rohan, French marshal (b. 1715)
• 1819 » the Public Universal Friend, American evangelist (b. 1752)
• 1839 » Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1785)

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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 July 1, 1721 was about 17.0 °C.