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• Benedetto Maria Maurizio DE SAVOY, Palazzo di Venaria, Turin, Italy († 1808)
• Benedictus Maurits van Sardinië, Turijn († 1808)
• Bartholomew GRUNDY, Chester-le-Street, Durham, England
• Anna Maria HOFMANN, Weis
• Gerard Bethera (Betraede Bettray), Vynen († 1823)
• Anna Gertrud Hoffmann, Bad Salzig, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland († 1804)
• Godefridus Janssens, Tilburg
• Anna Franses, Oosterhout
• Benedict Maurits van Sardinie, Turin, Piemonte, Italy († 1808)
• Benedict Maurits van Sardinie, Turijn († 1808)

• Judah Hutchinson (77), Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Danielsz de Keijzer (60), Strijen, Hoeksche Waard, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Lambert Lambertsz HERBERT (71), Naaldwijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ann Bentley (20), Bertie, North Carolina, United States
• Ariana Vleerdijk (Flierdijck) (41), Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland
• Hubert-Jean van ACKERE (39), Gullegem, 8560, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• cornelis danielsz de KEIJSER (60), strijen
• Isaac Aarts Kuijf (76), Lopik
• ANKE REIMLER (69), Nordhemmern
• Caleb Ball (41)

• 1710 » James Short, Scottish-English mathematician and optician († 1768)
• 1712 » Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, French admiral († 1790)
• 1730 » Motoori Norinaga, Japanese poet and scholar († 1801)
• 1732 » Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German pianist and composer († 1791)
• 1736 » Enoch Poor, American general († 1780)
• 1741 » Prince Benedetto, Duke of Chablais († 1808)
• 1750 » Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French sculptor and illustrator († 1818)
• 1759 » Alexander J. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1817)
• 1763 » Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French philosopher and academic († 1845)
• 1764 » Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician († 1840)

• 1621 » Kryštof Harant, Czech soldier and composer (b. 1564)
• 1621 » Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575)
• 1622 » Salomon Schweigger, German theologian (b. 1551)
• 1631 » John Smith, English admiral and explorer (b. 1580)
• 1652 » Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House and Wilton House (b. 1573)
• 1661 » Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (b. 1599)
• 1737 » Matthieu Marais, French author, critic, and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1738 » Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1674)
• 1796 » Richard Gridley, American soldier and engineer (b. 1710)
• 1824 » Étienne Aignan, French playwright and translator (b. 1773)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• April 10 » War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
• May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
• 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.
• August 10 » King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
• September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

The temperature on June 21, 1741 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.