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• Aijke Wessels Kremer, Wymeer, Bunde, Nedersaksen, Duitsland († 1822)
• Dina Joansdr Schotel, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1794)
• Catharina Willen, Schinnen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Gressi, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• CHRISTIANUS EIJMAEL, Hoensbroek
• Anne Peter (le Financier de la Constituante) Markgraaf van Montesquiou-Fézensac, Parijs († 1798)
• Cornelia Petri Reijnsdonck, Zeeland (N.Br.)
• Hendricus Hoogen, Wanssum
• Aldegonda Wouters, Sint-Huibrechts-Lille (Neerpelt), Limburg, België († 1796)
• Adriana Daems, Lier, Antwerpen, België

• barbe gillet (49)
• François Phlippe van der Mersch (49), Deulemont, Frankrijk
• NN Wagtman, Delft (Zuid-Holland)
• John REIGNOLDS, Cornwall, England
• Abraham BLANCHARD (84)
• Jan Harmsen Frielinck (54), Weteringen (Olst)
• Abraham Dozy (65), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Harms Frielinck (54), Weteringen, Olst
• Dirck Gerritsz Sussen
• Jan Gerritsz. de Lught (57)

• 1711 » Jupiter Hammon, American poet († 1806)
• 1719 » Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic († 1792)
• 1720 » Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer († 1795)
• 1725 » John Wilkes, English journalist and politician († 1797)
• 1729 » Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic († 1817)
• 1735 » Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist († 1803)
• 1759 » Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter († 1814)
• 1760 » Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher († 1825)
• 1760 » Henri de Saint-Simon, French political and economic theorist († 1825)
• 1768 » Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia († 1838)

• 1660 » Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
• 1673 » Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
• 1690 » Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
• 1757 » René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
• 1776 » Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
• 1780 » William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
• 1781 » Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)
• 1786 » Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
• 1806 » Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
• 1836 » Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)

1. Jan
2. Cornelis
3. Joannes
4. Pieter
5. Johannes
6. Hendrik
7. Petrus
8. Jacob
9. Willem
10. Jacobus
11. Gerrit
12. Jean
13. Dirk
14. John
15. Johann
16. Henricus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Marie
4. Joanna
5. Johanna
6. Catharina
7. Cornelia
8. Elisabeth
9. Neeltje
10. Trijntje
11. Grietje
12. Elizabeth
13. Jannetje
14. Mary
15. Aaltje
16. Adriana

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• 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 9 » Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
• 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 October 17, 1739 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.