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• Asa Caryl
• Amelberga van Fraeyenhoven, Temse
• Bernardus Ackersdijk, Delft
• Eva van Beijeren, Kralingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1816)
• Andreas Schneider, Heiligenborn, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1805)
• Adrianus de Kort, Tilburg
• Arien van Vuuren, andel
• Eva van Beijeren, Kralingen († 1816)
• Adrianus Verschuren, Waspik
• Amelberga van Frayenhove, Temse († 1820)

• Johannes Schuyler (78), Albany, Albany, New York
• Jenneke STROOIBANTS
• Bernardus van LEENT
• Maria Barbara Korb (62), Gersbach, Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Maria Christina Hoefkens (55), Noorderwijk
• Helena Leendertse Schippers (39), Kamperland,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Egidius van Daele (48), Sint Niklaas
• Maria "Hendrick" Beeken
• Maria Hendrick BEEKEN
• Charlotte Sophia van Bismarck (11), Crevese, Osterburg, Saksen-Anhalt

• 1705 » William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1793)
• 1740 » Nicholas Pocock, English naval painter (d.1821)
• 1760 » Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician († 1794)
• 1769 » DeWitt Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of New York († 1828)
• 1770 » Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French general († 1826)
• 1779 » Joel Roberts Poinsett, American physician and politician, 15th United States Secretary of War († 1851)
• 1793 » Sam Houston, American soldier and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas († 1863)
• 1800 » Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian-Italian poet and philosopher († 1844)
• 1810 » Pope Leo XIII († 1903)
• 1816 » Alexander Bullock, American lawyer and politician, 26th Governor of Massachusetts († 1882)

• 1729 » Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662)
• 1755 » Louis de Rouvroy, French duke and diplomat (b. 1675)
• 1791 » John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (b. 1703)
• 1793 » Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-Danish painter and academic (b. 1711)
• 1797 » Horace Walpole, English historian and politician (b. 1717)
• 1829 » Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, Mexican revolutionary (b. ca. 1773)
• 1830 » Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (b. 1755)
• 1835 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
• 1855 » Nicholas I, Russian emperor (b. 1796)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 31 » The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
• May 14 » War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
• October 25 » War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.

The temperature on March 2, 1747 was about -1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: geheel betrokken helder.