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• Adamus Verheyden, Bornem
• Aldegonda Lelieveld, Mook
• Bailey Day, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1826)
• Adriana Ruijs Ruisch († 1821)
• Elizabeth Pannell, England († 1829)
• célestine SAUSSEZ, Dour (Belgium) Hainaut († 1795)
• Adriana de Reus or Ruijs, Drunen († 1821)
• Gerradus (Geerardus) Morcus, Hengstdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1809)
• Carolus Josephus Lemahieu, Langemark West Vlaanderen België († 1837)
• Elisabetha Denijssen, Tilburg († 1810)

• Jan Oudshoorn (54), Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Grietje Jans Duijn, Velsen
• Elisabetha Crijns, Hoensbroek
• Jannetje Roos (56)
• Jan Jansz Oudshoorn (54), Rijnsburg
• Christina ten Barnem, Zelhem
• Jelis van Gorkum (80)
• Derk Jolink (1), Toldijk
• Amelbergha Borm (48), Stekene
• Cornelia Joppe (Blommendaal) Bloemendaal (64), Rotterdam

• 1710 » Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic († 1796)
• 1718 » Esek Hopkins, American commander († 1802)
• 1774 » Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist († 1853)
• 1782 » Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily († 1866)
• 1785 » John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter († 1851)
• 1787 » Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian († 1862)
• 1798 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer († 1863)
• 1801 » Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State († 1889)
• 1804 » Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician († 1876)
• 1822 » Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park († 1903)

• 1686 » Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (b. 1622)
• 1716 » John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1651)
• 1784 » Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718)
• 1789 » Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (b. 1721)
• 1809 » Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748)
• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)

• 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.
• June 27 » Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
• July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
• October 25 » King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of his grandfather George II
• November 18 » The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in Valletta, receives the first prisoners.

The temperature on April 26, 1760 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.