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• Aaltien (Aaltje) Hendriks (Hindriks) (Hinderks), Roden († 1801)
• Aaltje Hindriks Knot, Onnen († 1848)
• Aelbertus Gordon, Rotterdam
• Aaltje Jacobs Meijli, Woerden († 1799)
• Aaltien Hindriks, Roden († 1801)
• Adriana van der Craan, Stompwijk
• Abraham Meerman, Tholen
• Aartje van Klarenbeek, Veenendaal
• Aaltien, Roden, Drenthe, Nederland († 1801)
• Albert Ter Weele, enter († 1763)

• Gerritje Elbers Bus (33), Laren
• Jacob Sijmonsz Raar (3), in de Caag onder Spanbroek
• Gerritje Elbertse Bus (34), Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Schotanus (73), Sloten, Nederland
• Joannes Steenwegens, Bornem
• Joannes Baptist Steenweghe (32), Bornem, Antwerpen, België
• Berent Jansen ( Molleman ) Ruiterkamp (70), .........
• Johanna Maria de Roth (25), Malakka
• Jacob Bastiaans De ZEEUW (2)
• Gesina Roskamp, Meddo, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1686 » Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and educator († 1768)
• 1753 » Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian († 1828)
• 1768 » Louis Desaix, French general († 1800)
• 1786 » Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician († 1836)
• 1786 » Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld († 1861)
• 1801 » Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer and feminist († 1865)
• 1828 » Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician († 1897)
• 1840 » Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist († 1922)
• 1845 » Henry Cadwalader Chapman, American physician and naturalist († 1909)
• 1849 » William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland († 1919)

• 1676 » Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German author (b. 1621)
• 1720 » Anne Dacier, French scholar and translator (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668)
• 1768 » Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703)
• 1785 » Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
• 1786 » Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712)
• 1809 » Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (b. 1728)
• 1814 » John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (b. 1732)
• 1834 » Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (b. 1802)
• 1838 » Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)

• 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)
• June 23 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.
• 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.
• August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
• October 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
• October 10 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.

The temperature on August 17, 1760 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: omtrent helder.