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• Anthonia van Vulpen, Utrecht
• Alagonda Nieuwold, Woltzeten, Oostfriesland, Duitsland († 1807)
• Aaltje Janse Ruwiel, Teckop († 1818)
• Alegonda Nieuwold, Woltzeten, Ost-Freisland, Duitsland († 1807)
• Alegonda Nieuwolt, Woltzeten (Dld) († 1807)
• Cornelius van Overbeek, Diessen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1762)
• Gerritjen van Kesteren, Driel († 1781)
• Catharina DANEELS, Ophasselt, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1742)
• Anna Catharina de Moor, Ossendrecht, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1786)
• Cornelis van Overbeek, Diessen. Noord-Brabant. Nederland († 1778)

• Gertrud N, Heede
• Cent van der Kade, Lekkerkerk
• Anna Barbara Kaffenberger (58), Niedernhausen, Fischbachtal, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany
• Johannes (Jan) Maronier (68), Rotterdam, Government of Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Joannes Baptist Heremans (60), Petit-Enghien
• Cornelis dennis cornelis van Besouw (69), Tilburg
• Cornelis Dennis van Besouw (69), Tilburg
• Cornelis van Besouwen (69), Tilburg
• Dirk Schaep, Dordrecht
• Judocus t' Sas (73), Opwijk (Mazenzele), Vlaams-Brabant, België

• 1702 » Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor of India († 1748)
• 1726 » James Bowdoin, American banker and politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts († 1790)
• 1742 » Nathanael Greene, American general († 1786)
• 1751 » Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange († 1820)
• 1779 » Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic († 1859)
• 1844 » Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author († 1911)
• 1860 » Alan Leo, English astrologer and author († 1917)
• 1862 » Henri Le Sidaner, French painter († 1939)
• 1862 » Victoria of Baden († 1931)
• 1867 » Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator († 1956)

• 1632 » Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, English soldier (b. 1575)
• 1635 » Friedrich Spee, German poet and academic (b. 1591)
• 1639 » Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
• 1661 » Jin Shengtan, Chinese journalist and critic (b. 1608)
• 1787 » Francis Blackburne, English Anglican churchman and activist (b. 1705)
• 1817 » Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
• 1834 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
• 1848 » Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)

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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 August 7, 1742 was about 14.0 °C. There was 46 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken.