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• Gerrit Metting, Oude Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 1740)
• , Wilskerke, 8431, Middelkerke, West-Vlaanderen, BELGIUM († 1742)
• ANNA ELISABETH GEYSKENS, TESTELT († 1783)
• Catharina de de Voogd, Dordrecht († 1831)
• Catharina van Dongen, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Georg Henrich Benfer, Laaspherhütte,Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1808)
• Anna Maria Van Tichelt, Ekeren
• Coops Kobes, Onstwedde (O-Gr. bij Stadskanaal)
• Arijaantje Lugterhof, Rotterdam
• Cornelius Donders, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands

• Anna Jacoba Tieben (71), Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Frijns (32), Schinnen, Nederland
• elijsabet jans bockaert (67), amsterdam, noord holland, nederland
• Cornelia Corneliss van der Marel (41), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• ELISABETH FRIJNS (32), Schinnen
• Cornelis Cornelisz den Oude van der Marel (82), Wateringen
• Cornelis Cornelisz. van der Marel (82), Wateringen
• Cornelis Corneliszn van der Marel (82), Wateringen
• Cornelis Corneliss "de Oude" van der Marel (82), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Cornelisz de oude van der Marel (82), Wateringen

• 1647 » Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark († 1717)
• 1653 » Johann Pachelbel, German organist, composer, and educator († 1706)
• 1689 » Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Bohemian architect, designed Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral († 1751)
• 1711 » William IV, Prince of Orange († 1759)
• 1726 » Johann Becker, German organist, composer, and educator († 1803)
• 1795 » James Gordon Bennett Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald († 1872)
• 1799 » Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician († 1868)
• 1811 » James Montgomrey, Leader and important benefactor of his home town of Brentford, England († 1883)
• 1818 » José María Castro Madriz, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, 1st President of Costa Rica († 1892)
• 1848 » Auguste Forel, Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, and psychiatrist († 1931)

• 1646 » Francis Windebank, English statesman (b. 1582)
• 1648 » Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1588)
• 1678 » Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601)
• 1685 » Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1625)
• 1687 » Henry More, English priest and philosopher (b. 1614)
• 1706 » Cornelis de Man, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
• 1715 » François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
• 1715 » Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
• 1838 » William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (b. 1770)
• 1839 » Izidor Guzmics, Hungarian theologian and educator (b. 1786)

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

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

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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 September 1, 1740 was about 16.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken.