About the day » Monday May 21, 1742Calender converter

• Elisabeth Compton, Charles County, Maryland, Verenigde Staten († 1797)
• Catharina Sluyts, Borgerhout
• Hessel Jans Jorna (Jurna), Warga († 1813)
• Jean Dominique Thillen, Hoffelt, Clervaux, Diekirch, Luxembourg († 1801)
• Jacoba Theresia VAN DURME, Wambeek,1741,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE († 1814)
• Catharina SLUYTS, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Gommarus Faes, Bouwel
• Helena Trepels, Brachelen, Duitsland
• Catherina Sluyts, Borgerhout († 1815)
• anna maria FINCKE, hauskampen duitsland († 1781)

• Cornelius Luthaert (69), Bassevelde
• Lijntje Pieters Visser (70), IJsselmonde Rdm
• Harmken Pijpers (56), Winterswijk
• Joannes Odekircken (84), Klimmen
• Johannes Heessels, Udenhout
• Guillaume GIBERT (68), Boullarre,60620, Frankrijk
• Anna Oldelehr (77), Herbrun
• Geertruid Nijenhuis (37), Winterswijk
• Hermcken te Boeckenhorst te Boeckenharst (77), Winterswijk
• Johannes Heessels (1), Udenhout, Hollande

• 1688 » Alexander Pope, English poet, essayist, and translator († 1744)
• 1755 » Alfred Moore, American lawyer and judge († 1810)
• 1756 » William Babington, Irish-born, English physician and mineralogist († 1833)
• 1763 » Joseph Fouché, French lawyer and politician († 1820)
• 1775 » Lucien Bonaparte, French soldier and politician († 1840)
• 1780 » Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, philanthropist and Quaker († 1845)
• 1790 » William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Lord Chamberlain of the Household († 1858)
• 1792 » Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer († 1843)
• 1799 » Mary Anning, English paleontologist († 1847)
• 1801 » Princess Sophie of Sweden, Swedish princess († 1865)

• 1686 » Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor of the Magdeburg Hemispheres (b. 1602)
• 1690 » John Eliot, English-American minister and missionary (b. 1604)
• 1719 » Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
• 1724 » Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1742 » Lars Roberg, Swedish physician and academic (b. 1664)
• 1762 » Alexander Joseph Sulkowski, Polish and Saxon general (b. 1695)
• 1771 » Christopher Smart, English actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1722)
• 1786 » Carl Wilhelm Scheele, German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (b. 1742)
• 1790 » Thomas Warton, English poet and critic (b. 1728)
• 1810 » Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat and spy (b. 1728)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 24 » Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• February 16 » Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
• April 13 » George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

The temperature on May 21, 1742 was about 10.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken.