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• Claude Bonaventure Dit Parisien, Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada († 1834)
• Anne-Marie VAN COPPENOLLE, Renaix,9600,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1773)
• Anna van der Aa, Ginneken (NL) († 1838)
• Dirck DeMott, Readington, NJ
• Berber Tjeerds, Franeker, Fr, Nederland
• Annigje (Annechien) - Martens (Meertens) Hesseling († 1821)
• Andrew McGown, Colony, Laurel, Kentucky, United States († 1815)
• Carolus Buffel, Zedelgem, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1757)
• Coenradus Hendricus Wilhelmus d'Herripon, Dieren (Rheden) († 1821)
• Berber Tjeerds, Franeker

• Elisabeth Hippenstiel (4), Richstein, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Joannes Leendertsz (3)
• Lambertus van GEEL (38), Wuustwezel,Antwerpen,Belgie
• Gijs Blok, Scheveningen
• Joanna Maria Vervrangen (38), Moerzeke
• Joanna Meerts (21), Dworp, Belgie
• Hendrik George Veltman (54), Groningen
• Gertrudis Beckers, Venlo, Limburg, Niederlande
• Berend ter Beek, Eibergen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Aertsdr de Laat (36), Zevender (Utr), NL

• 1701 » Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns († 1771)
• 1711 » Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine († 1741)
• 1762 » Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator († 1820)
• 1767 » Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician († 1832)
• 1784 » Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria († 1849)
• 1785 » José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician († 1821)
• 1789 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds († 1847)
• 1795 » Frederick William IV of Prussia, Prussian king from 1840-1861 († 1861)
• 1814 » Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter († 1841)
• 1816 » John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales († 1891)

• 1684 » Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626)
• 1690 » Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (b. 1622)
• 1715 » Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675)
• 1788 » Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
• 1810 » Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (b. 1755)
• 1811 » Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (b. 1735)
• 1817 » Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (b. 1746)
• 1819 » Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1744)
• 1820 » Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)
• 1837 » Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1760)

• 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)
• May 6 » Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' 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.
• 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.
• December 31 » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

The temperature on October 15, 1757 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: geheel betrokken.