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• Catherine Elizabeth Burkhart, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, British America († 1825)
• Georgius van der Werff, Haastrecht
• Dirk Dirks de Vries, Beerta († 1798)
• Eva Maria Maurer († 1807)
• Geertje Kuyper, Egmond aan Zee, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1810)
• François PLANTARD, Sémelay (58-Nièvre), France († 1797)
• Franciscus van Erp, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Vogelsanck, Boxmeer, Nbr.NL
• Edward Field, Middletown, Bucks, PA
• Claas Thijmens Zwaan van der, eemnes († 1817)

• Meindert Obbe de Heer (54), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Frans Christiaansz. van Gorkum (81), Buren
• Mary Aylesworth (53), West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States
• Aeltjen de Vries (65), Zuilen
• Meindert Obbes de Heer (54), Dordrecht
• Meijndert Obbes de HEER (54), Dordrecht pays Bas
• Johannes Jansz Bou(W)man (60), oud alblas
• Jannetje Isaacsdr Stockman (46), Leiden
• Trijntje IJsbrands Verhoef (23), Woudenberg
• Joseph JACOB (70), Plougoumelen,56400,Morbihan,Bretagne,FRANCE

• 1645 » Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican secular priest, scientist, and savant († 1700)
• 1653 » Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica († 1688)
• 1688 » Frederick William I of Prussia († 1740)
• 1714 » Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter († 1789)
• 1738 » Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer and conductor († 1793)
• 1740 » Pope Pius VII († 1823)
• 1758 » Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer († 1835)
• 1777 » Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist († 1851)
• 1814 » Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher († 1901)
• 1817 » Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician († 1874)

• 1657 » Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, 57th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1560)
• 1691 » Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1630)
• 1727 » William Croft, English organist and composer (b. 1678)
• 1774 » Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (b. 1716)
• 1784 » Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-born English painter and academic (b. 1718)
• 1854 » Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)
• 1856 » Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (b. 1787)
• 1860 » André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)
• 1870 » David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
• 1874 » Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (b. 1821)

1. Jan
2. Cornelis
3. Joannes
4. Pieter
5. Johannes
6. Hendrik
7. Petrus
8. Jacob
9. Willem
10. Gerrit
11. Jean
12. Jacobus
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. Adriana
16. Mary

•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  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.
• May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
• 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 August 14, 1741 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.