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• Anna Ens, Amsterdam († 1748)
• Engelbertus Wilholte, Heede, Emsland
• Aaltje Waatsens, Kooten, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Marie
• Dieuwke (Dieuke) Sjoerds (Sjoerdts, Sioerds), Tietjerk, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aartjen, Harderwijk († 1726)
• Dieuwke Sjoerds, Tietjerk, Friesland, Nederland
• Catherina Baar, Soiron
• Dieuke Sjoerds, Suawoude
• Antonia van den Heuvel, Zutphen

• Balthasar GODINAS (5), HARZE, Liège, Belgique
• Anna Kinie (72), Niel
• Anna Barbara WEISSER (67), Stuttgart
• Johannes zv Mijssen van der Spanck (73), Schijndel
• Willemtje Knelis Foppen
• Sjuck van Burmania (60), Hallum, Friesland, The Netherlands
• Jan Lubbe (23), Cape Colony, South Africa
• Sjuck Laeszn Burmania (60), Hallum, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Arie Jans IJzerman (5)
• Hendrich Bovenschen (Ten Boven) (60), Moers (D)

• 1650 » Richard Brakenburgh, Dutch Golden Age painter († 1702)
• 1694 » Daniel Gran, Austrian painter († 1757)
• 1715 » François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and diplomat († 1794)
• 1733 » Hubert Robert, French painter († 1808)
• 1752 » Louis Legendre, French butcher and politician († 1797)
• 1762 » Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, English politician († 1834)
• 1770 » Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom († 1840)
• 1772 » Ram Mohan Roy, Indian philosopher and reformer († 1833)
• 1782 » Hirose Tansō, Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer († 1856)
• 1783 » William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor († 1850)

• 1602 » Renata of Lorraine (b. 1544)
• 1609 » Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff, Dutch captain (b. 1573)
• 1666 » Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
• 1667 » Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
• 1745 » François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general (b. 1671)
• 1760 » Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and author (b. 1700)
• 1772 » Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian and academic (b. 1687)
• 1795 » Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (b. 1725)
• 1802 » Martha Washington, First, First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)
• 1851 » Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755)

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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.

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