About the day » Friday May 21, 1728Calender converter

• Jacob VERNES, Genève,1200,Genève,Région Lémanique,SUISSE († 1791)
• Gommarus Verellen, Kessel
• Hendrik Franssen, Borgharen († 1809)
• Anna Francisca Van Reeth, Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1728)
• Amable Bissonnette
• Joanna Versluijs, Oudewater
• Elisabeth ERCKENS, Breyell, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1779)
• Jan Oeges, Zevenhuizen, gem. Leek, Groningen, Nederland
• Jacobus Leopoldus Lesy, Lichtervelde († 1805)
• Henricus Tulkens, Neeritter (NL) († 1793)

• Claas Jellesz DIJKUIT (23), Broek in Waterland, Waterland, NH, Netherlands 1151
• Jan Arensz FRATER (34)
• Johannes Keyts (34), Cape Town
• Gregorius Petrus Goris Peterz Snoeijs (83), Meerle
• Jacob Cornelisz Blok (23), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Joannes Petri SNOEIJS (73), Meerle,, Antwerpen, België
• Elizabeth Brookes (66), Henrico, Goochland, Virginia, United States
• Maria Bernarda Brijssinck (13), Temse
• Anna Vanderveken, Wolvertem
• Goris Peter Adriaen Snoeijs (83), Meerle (B)

• 1688 » Alexander Pope, English poet, essayist, and translator († 1744)
• 1755 » Alfred Moore, American lawyer and judge († 1810)
• 1756 » William Babington, Irish-born, English physician and mineralogist († 1833)
• 1763 » Joseph Fouché, French lawyer and politician († 1820)
• 1775 » Lucien Bonaparte, French soldier and politician († 1840)
• 1780 » Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, philanthropist and Quaker († 1845)
• 1790 » William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Lord Chamberlain of the Household († 1858)
• 1792 » Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer († 1843)
• 1799 » Mary Anning, English paleontologist († 1847)
• 1801 » Princess Sophie of Sweden, Swedish princess († 1865)

• 1670 » Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
• 1686 » Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor of the Magdeburg Hemispheres (b. 1602)
• 1690 » John Eliot, English-American minister and missionary (b. 1604)
• 1719 » Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
• 1724 » Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1742 » Lars Roberg, Swedish physician and academic (b. 1664)
• 1762 » Alexander Joseph Sulkowski, Polish and Saxon general (b. 1695)
• 1771 » Christopher Smart, English actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1722)
• 1786 » Carl Wilhelm Scheele, German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (b. 1742)
• 1790 » Thomas Warton, English poet and critic (b. 1728)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• February 28 » Peshwa Bajirao I of the Maratha Empire defeats Asaf Jah I in the Battle of Palkhed.
• August 29 » The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.

The temperature on May 21, 1728 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: omtrent helder.