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• Andreas Jacobus Van Ammel, beerse
• Dirck Jansz. Cleuters, Leiden
• François Joseph FREUDENREICH, Pfaffenheim, 68, Haut Rhin, Alsace, France († 1739)
• Anna Maria Stouffer, Londonderry, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1798)
• Geerts Antonia, Meer, Antwerpen, België
• Barbara Leemans, Zemst belgiquee († 1788)
• Charles Joseph Du Bois, Herlies, 59134, Nord, FRANCE
• Cornelis Matthijsz de Bruijn, Dordrecht, zh.nld († 1812)
• Catherine Miller, Garden Twp., Chester, Pa., Verenigde Staten († 1785)
• Claesje Lourensdr. Meerswijck, Alkemade († 1739)

• Joanna Clara FOCQUENIER (34), Kortemark, Belgique
• Catherine Hélène Roniau, Ragnies, Thuin, Hainaut, Belgique
• Marguerite Avisse (69), Beauport, Québec, Quebec, Canada
• Adam Hendrikse Commers (38), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adam Henricx Kommers, Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ann Bromley (41), England
• Adam Hendrikse Commers (38), Halsteren,Bergen op Zoom,Nood-Brabant,Nederland
• Guilielmus Spruyt (0), Eppegem
• Gertrudis Meuwissen, Montfort
• Bénitte TRUCHELLE (70), Lubine, Vosges, Grand Est, France

• 1705 » Farinelli, Italian castrato singer († 1782)
• 1709 » Dom Bédos de Celles, French monk and organist († 1779)
• 1712 » Frederick the Great, Prussian king († 1786)
• 1732 » Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and financier († 1799)
• 1739 » Jean Nicolas Houchard, French General of the French Revolution († 1793)
• 1746 » Gustav III of Sweden († 1792)
• 1749 » Charles James Fox, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs († 1806)
• 1754 » Andrew Ellicott, American soldier and surveyor († 1820)
• 1761 » Louis Klein, French general († 1845)
• 1763 » Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Ukrainian general and politician († 1831)

• 1595 » Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (b. 1529)
• 1626 » Samuel Argall, English captain and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1572)
• 1639 » Jörg Jenatsch, Swiss pastor and politician (b. 1596)
• 1666 » Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (b. 1588)
• 1709 » George Rooke, English admiral and politician (b. 1650)
• 1877 » Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (b. 1796)
• 1881 » James Collinson, English painter (b. 1825)
• 1883 » Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
• 1895 » Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 1 » Bouvet Island, the world's remotest island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
• February 17 » The Battle of Vasai commences as the Marathas move to invade Portuguese-occupied territory.
• February 23 » At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer.
• March 22 » Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
• September 18 » The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire.
• November 20 » Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

The temperature on January 24, 1739 was about 8.0 °C. There was 92 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken.