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• Adriaan Abrahamse, Koudekerke,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Brigida Maria Lopes, Minas Gerais, Brasil
• Baart Hendriksz Boon, Assendelft RK statie
• Does Niehof
• Baart Boon, Assendelft
• Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Herbers, Dankern, Haren, Niedersachsen, Duitsland († 1799)
• Gerardus Joannes Reverhorst, Groenlo
• Ernestus van den Bosch, Vierlingsbeek († 1815)
• Gijsbert Huijberts Bijland, Zevenhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1828)
• Anna Francisca Ermens, Kortenberg († 1808)

• Jan Otten (41), Diessen
• Gijsbert Willemsz. Vermoen, Numansdorp
• Maria Herrebout, Zaamslag
• Jean Delachaize (47)
• Adrianus, Franciscus Van Himbeeck, Moorsel
• Jean Dampeyrou (60), Cros de Montvert, Cantal, Frankrijk
• Gijsbert Willemse (Willemsz) Vermoen (1)
• Gerharda Wilhemijna Huijnink (24), Wisch, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Huijbrecht Ariesz van der Wilk (54), BerkelRodenrijs
• Magdalena Nellen modo Mermans, Homberg, Moers, Rheinland

• 1741 » Hester Thrale, Welsh author († 1821)
• 1756 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian pianist and composer († 1791)
• 1775 » Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German-Swiss philosopher and academic († 1854)
• 1790 » Juan Álvarez, Mexican general and president (1855) († 1867)
• 1795 » Eli Whitney Blake, American engineer, invented the Mortise lock († 1886)
• 1803 » Eunice Hale Waite Cobb, American writer, public speaker, and activist († 1880)
• 1805 » Maria Anna of Bavaria († 1877)
• 1805 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and etcher († 1881)
• 1806 » Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer and educator († 1826)
• 1808 » David Strauss, German theologian and author († 1874)

• 1689 » Robert Aske, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1619)
• 1731 » Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the Piano (b. 1655)
• 1733 » Thomas Woolston, English theologian and author (b. 1669)
• 1740 » Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1692)
• 1770 » Philippe Macquer, French historian (b. 1720)
• 1794 » Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French general (b. 1765)
• 1812 » John Perkins, Anglo-Jamaican captain
• 1814 » Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1762)
• 1816 » Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, English admiral and politician (b. 1724)
• 1851 » John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (b. 1789)

• 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 11 » The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• January 15 » The British Museum opens to the public.
• May 1 » Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
• August 1 » Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
• August 19 » Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
• September 13 » Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.

The temperature on January 27, 1759 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: betrokken.