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• Cornelius van AGTHOVEN, Wijk bij Duurstede,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1809)
• Cornelia Pietersdr. Vromesteijn, Alkemade
• Anna Maria Asselbergh, Dworp, 1653, België
• Ardien van Driel, Maasdriel (Hedel) GE NL († 1765)
• Antonia van der Heijden, Zeelst, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Cornelis van Achthoven
• Aart Jungerius, Charlois († 1802)
• Anna Gertruda van den WOLLENBERG, Cuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1827)
• Aaltje Gerbrichs Dijkhoff, Oene,Gemeente Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaron Kline, Reading Ton, New Jersey, United States († 1809)

• Christine Elisabeth Hagenbucher (29)
• Ann Loughton*** (38)
• Anna Lübbers (30), Altenharen, Haren
• Franz Theodor EGGERDES (55), Gehrden, Hoxter, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Elisabeth Stoughton (40), Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, United States
• Arnoldus Wilberts, Sint Anthonis
• Cornelia de Weert (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna SIJTREGTOP (42)
• Hermann Berend Fischer (71), Epe(Gld)
• Florentine Stremmel (66), Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein

• 1692 » John Byrom, English poet and educator († 1763)
• 1724 » Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer († 1822)
• 1736 » Ann Lee, English-American religious leader, founded the Shakers († 1784)
• 1792 » Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer († 1868)
• 1812 » James Milne Wilson, Scottish-Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Tasmania (d. February 29, 1880)
• 1828 » Emmeline B. Wells, American journalist, poet, and activist († 1921)
• 1836 » Dickey Pearce, American baseball player and manager († 1908)
• 1852 » Frank Gavan Duffy, Irish-Australian lawyer and judge, 4th Chief Justice of Australia († 1936)
• 1860 » Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman, co-founded the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company († 1929)
• 1876 » William Stewart, Scottish footballer

• 1604 » John Whitgift, English archbishop and academic (b. 1530)
• 1740 » Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
• 1744 » John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1683)
• 1792 » Johann Andreas Stein, German piano builder (b. 1728)
• 1820 » Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German historian and critic (b. 1743)
• 1848 » Louis-François Lejeune, French general, painter and lithographer (b. 1775)
• 1852 » Matsudaira Katataka, Japanese daimyō (b. 1806)
• 1868 » Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786)
• 1880 » James Milne Wilson, Scottish-Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Tasmania (b. February 29, 1812)
• 1908 » Pat Garrett, American sheriff (b. 1850)

• 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)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 9 » Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
• June 4 » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
• July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
• August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
• October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
• November 18 » The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in Valletta, receives the first prisoners.

The temperature on February 29, 1760 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: rijp.