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• Anna Maria Dedanser, Koekelare, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Cornelia Treedels, Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaen Oerlemans, Capelle (N-Br) († 1742)
• Egidius Couck, Teralfene († 1742)
• Guillaume Claes, Gelinden, België († 1746)
• Anna Elisabeth Gulich, Kettenis, Eupen (B)
• Ephraim Lopez Pereira Baron van Aguilar, Wenen († 1802)
• Dymphna Eylen, Tessenderlo († 1795)
• Henri EGGENSPIELER, Grentzingen (68960, Haut-Rhin, France) († 1810)
• Dymphna van Eylen, Tessenderlo († 1795)

• Catharina Tersagen, Puurs, Antwerpen, België
• Schelte Aukes
• Jan de Groot (45), Leiden, Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
• Elisabeth TERSAGO (92), Puurs,2870,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Derk ten Damme (Merdinck) (64), Winterswijk
• Jan Ariensz de Kort (45), Leiden
• Louis HERBET (49), fillièvres, Pas-de-Calais, France
• Maria Nelissen (3), Margraten
• Florence OUDIN, PARIS St Eustache
• Jan Tenkink, Ratum, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1710 » William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household († 1782)
• 1718 » Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher († 1799)
• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)

• 1657 » Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary and martyr (b. 1591)
• 1667 » Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1607)
• 1669 » Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (b. 1596)
• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)

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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 23 » At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer.
• February 24 » Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
• March 22 » Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
• October 3 » The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian–Turkish War.
• November 20 » Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

The temperature on May 16, 1739 was about 12.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.