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• Ebenezer Ober, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States († 1806)
• Anna Rouwbogs
• Gosina Kempeners, Slenaken
• Anske Renzo Smid
• Francoise Bélanger, Québec, Quebec, Canada († 1790)
• Angela Vincken, Papenhoven, Limburg, Niederlande
• Priscilla Webster, Bally Daniel, Wexford, Ireland
• Arelia Anna Lewe, Mensingeweer († 1790)
• Marie Cormier, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada († 1757)
• Jacobus Godefride Jansen, Zeeland (N.Br.)

• Anne FITZROY (61), Kent
• Christine Wilhelmine VON HESSE-HOMBURG (68), Grabow, Nordvorpommern, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
• Christine Wilhelmine Landgraaf of Hesse-Homburg Darmstadt Hesse-Darmstadt-Bingenheim-Mecklenburg-vorpommern (68), Grabow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Catharina Theunisdr
• Bastiaentje Isaacksd Den DRAECK (36)
• Anne Palmer (61), , England
• Bento Faleiro (63), São Sebastião, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Açores, Portugal
• Christine Wilhelmina van Hessen-Bingenheim (68), Grabow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Anna Theresia Kuiper, Hontenisse
• Christina Wilhelmina Van HESSEN HOMBURG (68), Grabow (DE)

• 1641 » Dudley North, English economist and politician († 1691)
• 1710 » William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household († 1782)
• 1718 » Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher († 1799)
• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)

• 1657 » Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary and martyr (b. 1591)
• 1667 » Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1607)
• 1669 » Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (b. 1596)
• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• March 8 » The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
• April 5 » The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
• July 25 » Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.

The temperature on May 16, 1722 was about 14.0 °C.