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• Antje Jans Boot, st Maarten († 1826)
• Cornelia Matthijsse, Koudekerke († 1848)
• Charlotte Louise Marianne van Cosel († 1831)
• Anna Gisbergen van, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Wilhelmina van Asbeck, Hamm, Nordrhein-Westfalen († 1824)
• Adrianus Antonius Vanneste, Bellegem
• Adamus Smeets, Merkelbeek († 1836)
• Agatha Jans, Hilversum
• Antonie de Kok, Tilburg († 1825)
• Antje Bood, St. Maarten, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Catherine Montagu (96), Shrubland, Suffolk, England
• Elisabeth Crijnen Ooms (32), Rotterdam
• Charlotte von Metting (3), Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Jannetje Roobol (82), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Marie GUERIN (80), Baives (59)
• Catharina Esselinckx, Dilbeek
• Jean REGEREAU (73), Loiron, Mayenne, Pays-de-la-Loire, France
• Elisabeth Krijnen Ooms (33), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Cornelis Jolle (74), Scheveningen
• Johanna Charlotte van Planitz (78), Altenburg, Thüringen

• 1706 » Benjamin Franklin, American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania († 1790)
• 1712 » John Stanley, English organist and composer († 1786)
• 1719 » William Vernon, American businessman († 1806)
• 1728 » Johann Gottfried Müthel, German pianist and composer († 1788)
• 1732 » Stanisław August Poniatowski, Polish-Lithuanian king († 1798)
• 1734 » François-Joseph Gossec, French composer and conductor († 1829)
• 1761 » Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist († 1832)
• 1789 » August Neander, German historian and theologian († 1850)
• 1793 » Antonio José Martínez, Spanish-American priest, rancher and politician († 1867)
• 1814 » Ellen Wood, English author († 1887)

• 1705 » John Ray, English botanist and historian (b. 1627)
• 1718 » Benjamin Church, American colonel (b. 1639)
• 1737 » Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
• 1738 » Jean-François Dandrieu, French organist and composer (b. 1682)
• 1751 » Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1671)
• 1826 » Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish-French composer (b. 1806)
• 1834 » Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1762)
• 1861 » Lola Montez, Irish actress and dancer (b. 1821)
• 1863 » Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
• 1869 » Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)

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)
• 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).
• June 18 » Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
• 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 5 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.

The temperature on January 17, 1757 was about -1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken.