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• Christian Friedrich Oelsner, Scheibenberg, Saxony, Germany
• Arnaud Louis de Galard Terraube, Terraube, Gers, France († 1833)
• Anna Vande Merck, Herent († 1831)
• Anna Katrina Van Veigle, Huntington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1820)
• Anna ten Plas, Amsterdam (NH, NLD) († 1815)
• Elisabetha van den Berk, Zeelst († 1820)
• Ferdinandus Jorissen
• Anna Maria VAN MOSSEVELD, 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), Province of North Brabant, Netherlands
• Jacobus De Coster, Walem, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Anna Guillielmus VAN de MERCK, Herent,3020,Vlaams-Brabant,Vlaanderen,BELGIË († 1831)

• George Winslow (67), Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Harmen Garrits de Vos (2), Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Hans (John ) W. Kneisley (48), Lancaster Co., Pa
• Albert Herms SCHUT (42), Heerde
• Helene Hohanna Maria Henrika van Raesfeld (76), Meisenheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Douwe Jilles (68), Surhuizum, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Hubert Cornelij Schrieks (32), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ephraim Thayer (88), Braintree, Essex County, Massachusetts, British America
• Jan Bastiaanszn Groeneweg (69), Standaardbuiten, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elizabeth Chew (36), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• 1749 » Georg Joseph Vogler, German organist, composer, and theorist († 1814)
• 1754 » Juan José Elhuyar, Spanish chemist and mineralogist († 1796)
• 1755 » Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist († 1809)
• 1763 » Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor († 1826)
• 1763 » Kobayashi Issa, Japanese priest and poet († 1827)
• 1765 » Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician († 1831)
• 1765 » Martin Baum, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Cincinnati († 1831)
• 1767 » Rachel Jackson, American wife of Andrew Jackson († 1828)
• 1777 » David Daniel Davis, Welsh physician and academic († 1841)
• 1789 » Josiah Henson, American minister, author, and activist († 1883)

• 1614 » Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English courtier and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1540)
• 1724 » Henry Sacheverell, English minister and politician (b. 1674)
• 1768 » James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
• 1772 » Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist and composer (b. 1694)
• 1844 » Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1777)
• 1849 » James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
• 1858 » Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and academic (b. 1795)
• 1888 » Frederick III, German Emperor (b. 1831)
• 1889 » Mihai Eminescu, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1850)
• 1890 » Unryū Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10th Yokozuna (b. 1822)

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 » 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 23 » Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
• December 31 » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

The temperature on June 15, 1757 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: geheel betrokken.