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• Anna Maria Göschl, Spital, Niederösterreich, Österreich
• Godeliva LAMBEIN, Slijpe, 35018, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1835)
• GILLES JOSEPH TARTE, ON
• Anna Maria KUITER, Lingen,Germany
• Christina van Braght, Beek en Donk
• Geertruij Simons, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1764)
• Henricus Caelen, Bergh
• Ida van Hoorenvoort, Helmond
• Anna Maria Schultheiss, Donaueschingen, Allemagne († 1840)
• Huberus Moors, Veldwezelt, Lanaken (B) († 1782)

• Jarich Joustra (40), Oldemarkt, Ijsselham, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Maria Anna Gallant (22), Kwaremont-Kluisbergen
• Maria Hendrik Spierincx (57), Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Frederik Willem Graaf van Brühl (61)
• Dorothea M GUNTHER (4), Bickenriede, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Thüringen, Germany
• Arent Willem Frederik Van Haersma (0), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Jan Maertensz. van Duijvenbode (47), Katwijk aan Zee, ZH, Nederland
• Petrus Louwe (4), Amsterdam
• Arent-Willem-Frederik Haersma (0), Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Georgia Geregadt (90), Bellem,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België

• 1724 » Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant († 1796)
• 1741 » Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, French admiral and explorer († 1788)
• 1754 » Louis XVI of France († 1793)
• 1769 » Georges Cuvier, French biologist and academic († 1832)
• 1783 » William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge († 1852)
• 1785 » Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander († 1819)
• 1805 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian judge and politician († 1893)
• 1814 » James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop († 1877)
• 1829 » Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian († 1920)
• 1843 » William Southam, Canadian publisher († 1932)

• 1652 » John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English soldier and politician (b. 1600)
• 1706 » Edward Nott, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
• 1806 » Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736)
• 1813 » Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766)
• 1819 » Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (b. 1785)
• 1831 » August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
• 1831 » Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1759)
• 1853 » Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (b. 1806)
• 1867 » Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet and author (b. 1796)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Pieter
4. Hendrik
5. Cornelis
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. John
14. Jean
15. Klaas
16. Johann

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Elisabeth
6. Cornelia
7. Catharina
8. Joanna
9. Trijntje
10. Grietje
11. Antje
12. Elizabeth
13. Aaltje
14. Neeltje
15. Adriana
16. Janna

• 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 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 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
• 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 August 23, 1760 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.