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• Joannes Welfens
• Joanna Willems Koermans, Mill
• Cornelia Janmaat, Alphen en Rietveld, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Berend Beerkotte, Recke, D
• Gerard Leendertse Clement, Wissekerke († 1837)
• ELIZABETH C. Railey, CUMBERLAND, VA
• Dirk Hendrik Kolff, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Jacques André PALVADEAU, Saint-Jean-de-Monts, 85160, France († 1837)
• Adrianus Vermeiren, Loenhout, provincie Antwerpen († 1837)
• Anna Elisabetha Mangelschots, Meerhout, België

• Madeleine Rochon (35), Ste. Rose-de-Lima, Laval, Ile Jesus, Quebec
• Adrianus Cornelius Vermeiren (0), Loenhout (B)
• Joanna Willem van HAENSBERGEN (47), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Bertens (48), Tilburg, N-Br, NL
• Jeanne Jauffred (30), ( Serret ) Uvernet-Fours
• Dirkjen van Varsseveld (61), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jacob Bozart (61)
• Elisabeth Hof (59), Elsoff, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Cornelis Boursette (32), Delft, 5995, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Clara Maria Nogueira (25), Baependi, Minas Gerais, Brasil

• 1697 » Adam Falckenhagen, German lute player and composer († 1754)
• 1710 » Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic († 1796)
• 1718 » Esek Hopkins, American commander († 1802)
• 1774 » Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist († 1853)
• 1782 » Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily († 1866)
• 1785 » John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter († 1851)
• 1787 » Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian († 1862)
• 1798 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer († 1863)
• 1801 » Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State († 1889)
• 1804 » Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician († 1876)

• 1686 » Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (b. 1622)
• 1716 » John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1651)
• 1784 » Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718)
• 1789 » Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (b. 1721)
• 1809 » Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748)
• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)

• 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.
• January 16 » Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
• 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.

The temperature on April 26, 1757 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: omtrent helder.