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• Jacobus Harksz, Zijpe, Nederland
• Aleida van Alen, Oldenzaal, 7570, Nederland
• Edward (Lt.) Lewis I I, Basking Ridge, Warren, New Jersey, United States († 1792)
• Adriaan Willeboordse
• Hannah Perkins, Voluntown, New London, Connecticut, United States
• Cornelius Anton Verschuren, Meer,Antwerpen,Belgium († 1722)
• Adamus Smeets, Roosteren
• Balthas Mayer
• Howe Hicks, Witcombe, Gloucestershire, England († 1801)
• Hermanus de Gavel, Amersfoort

• Maria Barbara Majer (39), Culpepper, Virginia, United States
• Elizabeth Partridge (79), Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Ernestus de Bevere (62), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Marinus Speecke (80), Kortemark West-Vlaanderen België
• Maria Janssen van Venroij
• Engel Cornelisz Nieuwaart
• Alexander Gerardi Verhagen (76), Schijndel
• Jane Rankin (25)
• Maria Catharina Lakey (0), Temse, België
• Geertje Pouwels' Bobbert (66), Enkhuizen

• 1646 » Godfrey Kneller, German-English painter († 1723)
• 1673 » John Ker, Scottish spy († 1726)
• 1693 » Laurent Belissen, French composer († 1762)
• 1694 » Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher and academic († 1746)
• 1709 » Hermann Anton Gelinek, German-Italian monk and violinist († 1779)
• 1720 » Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician († 1796)
• 1754 » Hipólito Ruiz López, Spanish botanist († 1816)
• 1758 » Friedrich Georg Weitsch, German painter († 1828)
• 1779 » Louis de Freycinet, French navigator and explorer († 1842)
• 1790 » Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician († 1838)

• 1604 » Horio Tadauji, Japanese daimyō (b. 1578)
• 1616 » Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (b. 1548)
• 1631 » Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian priest, lexicographer, and academic (b. 1579)
• 1684 » George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, English politician (b. 1622)
• 1719 » Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)
• 1746 » Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (b. 1694)
• 1747 » Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian raid leader (b. 1678)
• 1759 » Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (b. 1704)
• 1827 » George Canning, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1828 » Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist and psychologist (b. 1743)

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

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

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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 August 8, 1722 was about 17.0 °C.