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• Aaltje Janse van Oij, Echteld (NL)
• Adrianus Pauwels, Erembodegem († 1749)
• AALTJE VAN MEURS, Wageningen
• Aart Jacobsz Munge, Baarn
• Aaltje Gerrits († 1824)
• Adrianus van Rossen (Rossum), Harmelen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1821)
• Agnietje Melissen (van de Kemp), Putten († 1756)
• Aaltie Clazes, De Lemmer († 1749)
• Aatje Gerrits, Rottevalle, Friesland, Nederland († 1824)
• Aafke, Noordhorn

• Christiaan Schreijer (61)
• Aelbert de Greef (0), Neerlangbroek, Nederland
• Adriaan Deij (72), Axel
• Guillielmina Peeters, st. Joriskerkhof te
• Adrianus Cornelisz NIEUWKOOP (12)
• Elizabeth Johannesdr. de Zoete (8), Baarn(UT)
• Anna Jansdr. van Roosenburch (79), Wassenaar aangifte
• Hildebrand Abbink, Eibergen
• Adriaan Haneveer (56), Gilze
• Elizabeth Merriman (79), Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

• 1695 » François de Chevert, French general († 1769)
• 1695 » William Borlase, English geologist and archaeologist († 1772)
• 1700 » Johann Christoph Gottsched, German author and critic († 1766)
• 1711 » Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg († 1794)
• 1714 » Gottfried August Homilius, German organist and composer († 1785)
• 1717 » Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal († 1790)
• 1754 » Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1838)
• 1782 » Henri de Rigny, French admiral and politician, French Minister of War († 1835)
• 1786 » Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1856)
• 1802 » Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic († 1887)

• 1675 » Ivan Belostenec, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (b. 1594)
• 1688 » Abraham Duquesne, French admiral (b. 1610)
• 1704 » Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician and academic (b. 1661)
• 1712 » Martin Lister, English physician and geologist (b. 1639)
• 1714 » John Sharp, English archbishop (b. 1643)
• 1723 » Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
• 1768 » Robert Smith, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
• 1769 » Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
• 1802 » Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1713)
• 1804 » George Walton, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1749)

• 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 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
• January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
• May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
• June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

The temperature on February 2, 1749 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: regen omtrent helder.