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• Aart Hendriksen
• Hendrika van Zeil Zijl Zyll, Schalkwijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1847)
• constance WATTIEZ, Dour (Belgium) Hainaut
• Elnathan CORY, Elizabethtown, Essex, Colony of New Jersey († 1838)
• Ariaantje van der Craan, Stompwijk
• Hendrika van Zeijl, Schalkwijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1847)
• Benjamin DELANO, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Elizabeth Haranor Jennings, Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, United States († 1801)
• Adrianus Josephus Lamoen, Hoboken
• Elizabeth Jennings, Virginia († 1801)

• Jean Joseph LESENNE (50), Ronse, 45041, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Jan van 't Woldt, kampen
• Anthonia Goetschalckx (18), Wuustwezel (B)
• Frank Corneliszn Jonker (36), Scheveningen
• Count Ignaz of Breuner (22)
• Christophorus De Dekker - De Decker (54), Grimbergen
• Estiene Courbois (76), Amsterdam
• Anna Catharina BREMM, Ediger / Mosel
• Bernardus Cornillie (76), Rumbeke, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Frank Cornelisse Jonker(s) (36)

• 1689 » Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist and playwright († 1773)
• 1721 » Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet and author († 1781)
• 1753 » William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland († 1825)
• 1764 » Ann Ward, English author and poet († 1823)
• 1775 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright († 1818)
• 1800 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist († 1885)
• 1808 » Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and colonel († 1887)
• 1819 » Elias Howe, American inventor, invented the sewing machine († 1867)
• 1825 » A. C. Gibbs, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Oregon († 1886)
• 1828 » Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal († 1913)

• 1706 » Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Canadian captain and explorer (b. 1661)
• 1737 » Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
• 1742 » John Oldmixon, English historian, poet, and playwright (b. 1673)
• 1746 » Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
• 1747 » Giovanni Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (b. 1670)
• 1766 » Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
• 1795 » Henry Seymour Conway, English general and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1721)
• 1797 » Edmund Burke, Irish-English philosopher, academic, and politician (b. 1729)
• 1828 » Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (b. 1789)
• 1850 » Báb, Persian religious leader, founded Bábism (b. 1819)

• 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 15 » The British Museum opens to the public.
• May 1 » Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
• July 25 » French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 18 » French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed.

The temperature on July 9, 1759 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: helder.