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• Ann (Fannie) 141 Landes Bauer, Hereford Township, Berks County († 1809)
• Albert Wiedersprecher, Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Anna Hermansdr Schouten, Oudkarspel († 1822)
• Catharina Livina Van de Walle, Gentbrugge († 1828)
• Adrianus Cools, Standdaarbuiten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andrew Bruce, Balmerino,Fife,Scotland
• Albert Hendriksen Haselaar, Eemnes
• Antje Hermans Schouten
• Cornelis Spaanderman, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Bauer, Hereford, Berks, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1809)

• Editha Kellogg (77), Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
• Sara Barbara COCQ, Rotterdam, 6240, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Soutje Booij, Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis van Dun (65), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Magnus Cristoph von der Pahlen (24)
• Anne FOUCAULT (65), Souvigny-de-Touraine, 37530, France
• Wolfgang Wohlgemut, Odenheim, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Deliverance Unknown (52), North Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Pieter Jacobs Veen (33), Haaften, Gelderland, Nederland
• Wilhelmus Cornelisse Doggen (29), Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Pays-Bas

• 1686 » Eustace Budgell, English journalist and politician († 1737)
• 1689 » Samuel Richardson, English author and publisher († 1761)
• 1711 » Edward Boscawen, English admiral and politician († 1761)
• 1719 » Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat († 1791)
• 1743 » Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France († 1793)
• 1777 » Francis I, king of the Two Sicilies († 1830)
• 1815 » Harriette Newell Woods Baker, American editor and children's book writer († 1893)
• 1819 » Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Luxembourger-Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 1894)
• 1830 » Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist († 1895)
• 1835 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football († 1880)

• 1646 » Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian and academic (b. 1583)
• 1654 » Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
• 1662 » Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
• 1680 » Jean Eudes, French priest, founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (b. 1601)
• 1691 » Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman commander and politician, 117th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1637)
• 1702 » Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1645)
• 1753 » Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (b. 1687)
• 1808 » Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (b. 1721)
• 1822 » Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
• 1883 » Jeremiah S. Black, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Attorney General (b. 1810)

1. Jan
2. Joannes
3. Pieter
4. Cornelis
5. Johannes
6. Hendrik
7. Jacob
8. Willem
9. Petrus
10. Gerrit
11. Jacobus
12. Jean
13. John
14. Dirk
15. Johann
16. Klaas

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Marie
4. Johanna
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Grietje
10. Trijntje
11. Adriana
12. Neeltje
13. Jannetje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Aaltje

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
• March 14 » Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMSMonarch for breach of the Articles of War.
• May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
• May 6 » The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
• November 5 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
• December 31 » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

The temperature on August 19, 1757 was about 17.0 °C. There was 24 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken.