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• François-Louis Coppin
• Dirk Hessels Jorna, Warga, Friesland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Catherina Colerus, Foudgum, Dongeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1758)
• Herbertus de Geest (Id 955), Utrecht
• Gabriel Willemszn van Bergen En Hennegouwen, Monster
• Hendrina Hendriks Jurriens, Nijmegen
• "Caspar" Gaspar Antonius Gaspar Antonius, Breugel, NL
• Joanna Geijsen, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
• Anna Jacobus Borght, Zeeland (N.Br.)
• Jakob Kinkel, Eifa, Kreis Frankenberg († 1727)

• Henricus Quadflieg (65), Schaesberg, Limburg, Niederlande
• Atje Jans Ungabuur (82), Herbaijum, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Johanna Janse van Eyck, Lierop,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Nicolas LONGUEVILLE (72), Maldegem, 9990, Flandre-Orientale, Belgique
• Henricus Quaedflieg (65), Schaesberg, Landgraaf, Limburg, Nederland
• Jacobus MISSY (46)
• Jonas PRESCOTT (78), Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Cornelisdr Schaap (57), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Nicolaus Burhans (58)
• Henricus Quaedvlieg (65), Schaesberg, Niederlande

• 1668 » Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician († 1738)
• 1714 » Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician and educator († 1783)
• 1720 » Charles Edward Stuart, Scottish claimant to the throne of England († 1788)
• 1738 » Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of India († 1805)
• 1741 » Gottfried August Bürger, German poet and academic († 1794)
• 1763 » Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral († 1806)
• 1776 » Johann Spurzheim, German-American physician and phrenologist († 1832)
• 1798 » Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian physician, philologist, and academic († 1850)
• 1805 » Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author († 1876)
• 1815 » George Meade, American general and engineer († 1872)

• 1655 » Janusz Radziwiłł, Polish–Lithuanian politician (b. 1612)
• 1673 » Oliver St John, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (b. 1598)
• 1679 » Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
• 1691 » Dudley North, English merchant and economist (b. 1641)
• 1691 » Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627)
• 1705 » Catherine of Braganza (b. 1638)
• 1719 » John Flamsteed, English astronomer and academic (b. 1646)
• 1730 » Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (b. 1651)
• 1742 » Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)
• 1775 » Richard Montgomery, American general (b. 1738)

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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 December 31, 1726 was about 7.0 °C. Weather type: mist.