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• Geertrui SCHIPHORST, Okkenbroek (Diepenveen)
• Anne Courty, Saint-Georges-d'Orques, Hérault, Frankrijk († 1798)
• Gertrudis Schiphorst
• Anna Jois van de Ven, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Catharina Savelkoul, Obbicht, Limburg, Nederland († 1805)
• Anna Catharina Bal, Schelle, Antwerpen, België
• Anna Cornelisdr GEERVLIET, 's-Gravendeel († 1797)
• Helena Schermerhorn
• Gijsbert Claasz Smit, Laren († 1799)
• Geijsbert Klaaszen Smit (Smidt), Laren N.H. († 1799)

• Johannes Everaert (50), Hofstade (België)
• George Chowning (Chewning) II (0), Middlesex County, VA
• James Courtenay (18), Powderham, Devon
• Katharina Homrighausen (64), Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Samuel Spencer (87), Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States
• Claudine Françoise THIRION (75), Réméréville, 54110, France
• Maria Pietersdr. van der Bijl (34), Wassenaar aangifte
• Pieter Nootdorp, Geervliet
• Anna Maria Amelia Barbara von Palant (77)
• NICOLAS CHANTRENNE (62), HAMOIR

• 1635 » Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal († 1709)
• 1638 » Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter († 1665)
• 1735 » John Carroll, American archbishop, founder of Georgetown University († 1815)
• 1763 » Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American translator and diplomat († 1834)
• 1786 » Nicholas Biddle, American banker and financier († 1844)
• 1788 » Rudolf of Austria, Austrian archduke and archbishop († 1831)
• 1792 » Lowell Mason, American composer and educator († 1872)
• 1805 » John Bigler, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 3rd Governor of California († 1871)
• 1805 » Orson Hyde, American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles († 1878)
• 1812 » Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer († 1871)

• 1642 » Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1564)
• 1664 » Moses Amyraut, French physician and theologian (b. 1596)
• 1707 » John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and politician, Scottish Secretary of State (b. 1648)
• 1713 » Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1653)
• 1775 » John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (b. 1706)
• 1789 » Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703)
• 1794 » Justus Möser, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1720)
• 1815 » Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (b. 1778)
• 1825 » Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)
• 1853 » Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene-Hungarian poet and educator (b. 1788)

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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 8, 1726 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt omtrent betrokken.