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• Abraham Pieterse Fasol, Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1804)
• Aafke Hattums Hoekstra, Oudega († 1845)
• Abram de Ruijter, Dirksland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Hattums de Boer, Oudega, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1845)
• Aaltje, Lunteren
• Abraham Pieterse Fasol, Vlaardingen († 1804)
• Adrianus Kanters, Rotterdam († 1820)
• Aaron Ford, Owlpen, Gloucestershire, England
• Adrianus van der Ree, Strijen († 1812)
• Abram Pietersz Fasol, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1807)

• Catharina Demaeght (80), Vlezenbeek
• Gideon Jansz de BiJe (27), Wassenaar
• Katharina Elisabeth Kesting (1)
• Élisabeth-Ursule Foucro Dite Fouchereau (79), Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada
• Joanna van de Gent (0), Weurt, Gemeente Beuningen, Gelderland, Niederlande
• Carolus Andreas Tamsin (0), Sint-Kruis, België
• Anne Marie Lamoureux (73), Andrimont (B)
• Elisabeth U Ursule Jeanne Elisabeth-Ursule Fouquereau (79), Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada
• Catharina Angela Osterbrink (15), Altenhagen, Deutschland
• Hidde Scheneri (43)

• 1714 » Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician and educator († 1783)
• 1720 » Charles Edward Stuart, Scottish claimant to the throne of England († 1788)
• 1738 » Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of India († 1805)
• 1741 » Gottfried August Bürger, German poet and academic († 1794)
• 1763 » Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral († 1806)
• 1776 » Johann Spurzheim, German-American physician and phrenologist († 1832)
• 1798 » Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian physician, philologist, and academic († 1850)
• 1805 » Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author († 1876)
• 1815 » George Meade, American general and engineer († 1872)
• 1830 » Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian ruler († 1895)

• 1679 » Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
• 1691 » Dudley North, English merchant and economist (b. 1641)
• 1691 » Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627)
• 1705 » Catherine of Braganza (b. 1638)
• 1719 » John Flamsteed, English astronomer and academic (b. 1646)
• 1730 » Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (b. 1651)
• 1742 » Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)
• 1775 » Richard Montgomery, American general (b. 1738)
• 1799 » Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (b. 1723)
• 1818 » Jean-Pierre Duport, French cellist (b. 1741)

• 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)
• April 28 » The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.
• May 21 » Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
• June 30 » Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a Prussian reinforcement and supply convoy in the Battle of Domstadtl, helping to expel Prussian King Frederick the Great from Moravia.
• August 25 » Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
• October 14 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.
• 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 December 31, 1758 was about 4.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.