About the day » Friday August 23, 1726Calender converter

• Henrich Lensing, Gro√ü-Reken
• Caecilia Daniëls, in 't Loo (Duiven), Gelderland, Nederland († 1727)
• Everhard Viertag, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1790)
• Christiaan, Harderwijk
• Englina van Riel, Tilburg
• Harmannus Smit, Groningen († 1795)
• Elisabeth Thielemans, Hoboken (Antwerpen, België) († 1787)
• Gerardus van Genk, Princenhage
• Charlotte Frederike Adolfine Prinses van Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein, Birstein, Hessen († 1784)
• Everhardus Viertag Fiertag Vierdag, Haren, Haren (Ems), Emsland, Niedersachsen, Germany († 1790)

• Judith Jacoba Torck (36)
• Sander van HARTEN (0), Nieuwpoort
• Jacobus Wagters, Hontenisse
• Johannes Pietersz de HEER (71)
• Mary Horseman (26), Chesterfield, Burlington, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Thomas Cushman, Jr. (88), Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
• Lucia Beck (30), Weinfelden, Thurgau, CH
• Peter Biermans (57), Herkenbosch
• Dina Blits, Amsterdam
• Jan Luchiens Bolter (49), Kampereiland, Ov, The Netherlands

• 1623 » Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, theologian, and historian († 1675)
• 1724 » Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant († 1796)
• 1741 » Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, French admiral and explorer († 1788)
• 1754 » Louis XVI of France († 1793)
• 1769 » Georges Cuvier, French biologist and academic († 1832)
• 1783 » William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge († 1852)
• 1785 » Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander († 1819)
• 1805 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian judge and politician († 1893)
• 1814 » James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop († 1877)
• 1829 » Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian († 1920)

• 1618 » Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1585)
• 1628 » George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1592)
• 1652 » John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English soldier and politician (b. 1600)
• 1706 » Edward Nott, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
• 1806 » Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736)
• 1813 » Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766)
• 1819 » Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (b. 1785)
• 1831 » August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
• 1831 » Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1759)

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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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