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• Abram van der Mik
• aaltje van der voorn, bleiswijk (zuid holland)
• Adriaantje van Hulst, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Eijkelenboom, Bergambacht
• Adrianus Rochuszn. Waardenburg, Geervliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Leenderts van der Voorn, Bleiswijk
• Anna Gertrudis te Kaat, Oer († 1838)
• Anna van Roon, Overschie († 1816)
• Aaltje Voorren, Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1844)
• Adrianus Waardenburg, Geervliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1848)

• Claude Marie Faivre (61), Beulotte-Saint-Laurent, 70071, Haute Saône, Franche-Comté, France
• Elis Wolbertsz van Velthuijsen (1), Woudenberg
• Catharina Wermelts, Bockholt
• Jean LANGENFELD (158), Lengelsheim, 57393, Moselle, Lorraine, Grand Est, France
• Joannes (Hannes) van Oostrom
• Anna Beckers (67)
• catherine URBAIN (78), Frameries (Belgium) Hainaut
• Jannigje Jansen van Aalst, de Werken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Schutten, Bockholte (D.)
• Jurgen Christoph Seelemeijer (43), Polle (Duitsland)

• 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)
• February 4 » The city of Macapá in Brazil is founded by Sebastião Veiga Cabral.
• April 28 » The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.
• July 26 » French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
• August 29 » The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape.
• November 25 » French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.
• December 25 » Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.

The temperature on October 15, 1758 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: omtrent helder.