About the day » Tuesday May 16, 1741Calender converter

• Elizabeth Carpenter, Gwinear, Cornwall, England
• Jannitje Veen, Bennebroek
• Abiel Thomas, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1759)
• Gerardus Peters, Venraij
• Anna Maria DE VLEMINCK, Nossegem († 1805)
• Franciscus Sas, Vosselaar († 1799)
• Anna Maria dochter Wouterus van Helmont, Hooge Mierde († 1800)
• Anna Elisabeth Luyten
• Anna Maria Barbara Fenstermacher, Oley, Berks Co.Pennsylvania († 1801)
• Jean FISCHMEISTER, Sewen, 68290, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE († 1794)

• Georges Baratay, Saint-Paul-en-Chablais, Haute-Savoie, France
• Anna Catharina Gottwaltz (42), Bad Nauheim, Wetteraukreis, Hessen, Duitsland
• Christoph Reinhard Strobel (59), Dörnthal bei Selbitz (Hof), Beieren, Duitsland
• Jean Conrad CLAR (16), Traubach-le-Bas (68210, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Grietjen Harms Brinks (37), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Grietjen Harms Brinks (37), Emmen, Nederland
• Cristina Kraievangers (72), Duiven
• Antoine VI de GRAMONT ,duc de Gramont (5e) (53)
• Anthonie VI van Commignes Prins van Bidache (53)
• Cornelis Arijsz Boender (37), Numansdorp (Hoeksche Waard), Zuid-Holland, 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)

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

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

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
• March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
• June 25 » Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
• July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
• July 31 » Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
• September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

The temperature on May 16, 1741 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.