About the day » Saturday October 17, 1744Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Coeck, Niel, Antwerpen, België
• Cornelis Lambertsz Ruiter, Eemnes
• Anna Maria SEGERS, Halsteren,4660,Noord-Brabant,Bergen op Zoom,NEDERLAND († 1831)
• Anna Maria de KOK, Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1799)
• Adelbertus van der Gulik, Grootebroek, Nederland († 1804)
• Barbara Maria Geyskens, Zichem († 1750)
• Cornelius Roovers, Etten, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Caroline Louise Pangaert († 1782)
• Daniel Danckers, Bladel († 1744)
• Cornelis Lambertsen (de Ruijter), Eemnes

• Catharina Tonneman (59), Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Dirk Smaling (53), Woerden
• Boukje Meinderts (47), Lutjegast
• Johan Reinert Nortmann (73), Werlte, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Arie Jacobse Groenewegen, Stompwijk
• Dirck Joosten Smalingh (53), Woerden, So. Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Baumann (76), Herborn, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany
• François Bacquet dit Lamontagne (62), Saint-Michel, Bellechasse, Québec
• Isaac Jacobse Staalehoeff (78), Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Joannes Van De Velde (61), Wijnegem

• 1711 » Jupiter Hammon, American poet († 1806)
• 1719 » Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic († 1792)
• 1720 » Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer († 1795)
• 1725 » John Wilkes, English journalist and politician († 1797)
• 1729 » Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic († 1817)
• 1735 » Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist († 1803)
• 1759 » Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter († 1814)
• 1760 » Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher († 1825)
• 1760 » Henri de Saint-Simon, French political and economic theorist († 1825)
• 1768 » Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia († 1838)

• 1660 » Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
• 1673 » Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
• 1690 » Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
• 1757 » René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
• 1776 » Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
• 1780 » William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
• 1781 » Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)
• 1786 » Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
• 1806 » Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
• 1836 » Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• February 22 » War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
• July 4 » The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
• September 30 » War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.

The temperature on October 17, 1744 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.