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• Elisabeth Peter Janssen van Hees, Gemonde
• Catharina Zuns, Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland
• Elisabeth Peters van Hees, Gemonde, Nederland
• Georgius Baetens, Kalken, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Bon Thomas LAISNE, Brix, Manche, Normandie, France
• Bernardus Joossens, Temse († 1801)
• Adelheidis Cranen, Anholt, Duisland
• Anna Maria de Bruijckere, Sint-Laureins, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1728)
• Anna Hendriks HIKSPOORS, Deurne († 1788)
• Antonius Cornelisz de Ridder, Haastrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1778)

• Geerit Besoijen (5), IJsselmonde
• Gerrit Gerrits Geijssen (5), IJsselmonde
• Cornelis Barthouts Wassenaar (47)
• Marta Elena Kluijt, Zaamslag
• Joanna-Maria van Col (50)
• Susanna Wood (43), Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware
• Anthony Quist, Nieuw Vossemeer gem. Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland NED
• Marie Anne Hardy (92), Montréal, Île-De-Montréal, Québec, Canada
• Trijntje Arense van Gemeren
• Gabriel ROSSOUW (24)

• 1642 » Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan († 1693)
• 1647 » Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader († 1676)
• 1699 » Osman III, Ottoman sultan († 1757)
• 1713 » Marie Dumesnil, French actress († 1803)
• 1727 » James Wolfe, English general († 1759)
• 1732 » František Brixi, Czech organist and composer († 1771)
• 1777 » Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator († 1857)
• 1803 » Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic († 1869)
• 1822 » Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician († 1888)
• 1827 » Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician († 1914)

• 1543 » Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (b. 1497)
• 1557 » Pontormo, Italian painter and educator (b. 1494)
• 1613 » Salima Sultan Begum, Empress of the Mughal Empire (b. 1539)
• 1614 » Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish mystical poet and Catholic martyr (b. 1566)
• 1726 » Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and composer (b. 1688)
• 1763 » John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
• 1850 » Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (b. 1789)
• 1861 » Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• February 13 » Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile bring an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26.
• February 19 » The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
• May 9 » Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
• October 28 » The novel Gulliver's Travels is published.

The temperature on January 2, 1726 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: omtrent betrokken regen natte sneeuw .