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• Anna Anthoniesdochter van Es, Westmaas, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1790)
• Alida de REUS, Amsterdam
• Aaltje Streefkerk, Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• , Kadoelen, Sint Jansklooster, Nederland
• Schrijver, Puttershoek, Nederland († 1804)
• Anna Margareta Schmidt, Frederick, Maryland, Verenigde Staten († 1803)
• Anna Cornelisse van den Toorn, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelis: Van Den Toorn, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriaan Vermeeren, Ginneken
• Abigail Miner, Stonington, New London County, Connecticut

• Leendert Jansz Ammerlaan (31), Wassenaar, ZH, Nederland
• Gerard Raymaeckers (38), Zichem (BE3271) – Vlaams Brabant – België
• Elizabeth Rousby 8 E (70), Queen Anne's Co, Maryland Colony, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Grietje Alexandersdr Baans (1), Delft
• Anne Marie MARTIN (54), ( Réville, 50760, Manche, Normandie, FRANCE
• Jan Aartsen, Harskamp
• Bastiaantje Cornelis Wolf (3), Babiloniënbroek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnould Le Vecqs (88), Herlies, 59134, Nord, FRANCE
• Gerardus Raymaeckers (38), Zichem, 3271 België
• George Phillips I (79), Queens, New York City, New York, Verenigde Staten

• 1693 » George Edwards, English ornithologist and entomologist († 1773)
• 1715 » William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist († 1787)
• 1764 » John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist († 1831)
• 1769 » Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat († 1835)
• 1770 » Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general († 1843)
• 1778 » Pierre Bretonneau, French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy († 1862)
• 1781 » Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader († 1830)
• 1782 » Alexander Macomb, American general († 1841)
• 1783 » Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian († 1859)
• 1791 » Anne Lister, English diarist, mountaineer, and traveller (d.1840)

• 1680 » Shivaji, Indian emperor, founded the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
• 1682 » Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1618)
• 1691 » Jean Petitot, French-Swiss painter (b. 1608)
• 1695 » Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. 1636)
• 1717 » Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (b. 1640)
• 1728 » James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (b. 1662)
• 1792 » George Pocock, English admiral (b. 1706)
• 1804 » Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest, historian, and author (b. 1727)
• 1827 » Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (b. 1756)
• 1838 » François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician and author (b. 1780)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
• June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
• June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
• August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
• October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
• October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

The temperature on April 3, 1740 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: geheel betrokken mist.