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• Cornelia Kalckman, Capelle aan de IJssel
• Anna maria Stassen Staesens, Vessem, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1832)
• Anna Kooijmans, Wamel (Gld.) († 1821)
• Anna Maria Staassens, Vessem
• Anna Kooijmans, Wamel († 1821)
• Catharina Westerlaan, Den Haag († 1763)
• Agnes Huijs, Sevenum, Horst, Limburg, Niederlande († 1763)
• Dirk Koudijs, Woudenberg († 1833)
• Annigje Steinisse, Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1847)
• Aldegondis SANDERS, Wintelre († 1798)

• Maria Francisca Van Vooren (0), Eeklo, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Fenneken Olijslag, Vorden
• Lena Lambrechtse Kolle (67), Stavenisse
• , Pluzunet, Côtes-D'armor, Bretagne, France
• Lena Lambrechtsdr Kolle (67), stavenisse (zeeland)
• Maartje Jans van Kralingen (58), Westzaandam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Annegien Jacobs van Edenberg (76), Hasselt, België
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Beckmann (67), St. Johann, Osnabrück
• Lena Lambrechts Colle (67), Stavenisse Zl
• Henricus Coomans (89), Meerhout(BEL)

• 1680 » Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, 2nd Colonial Governor of Louisiana († 1767)
• 1685 » George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer († 1759)
• 1723 » Richard Price, Welsh-English minister and philosopher († 1791)
• 1744 » Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker and businessman († 1812)
• 1792 » José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general. President three times (1844–1854) († 1854)
• 1831 » Felicita Vestvali, German actress and opera singer († 1880)
• 1831 » Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter († 1915)
• 1840 » Carl Menger, Austrian economist and educator († 1921)
• 1842 » Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author († 1906)
• 1850 » César Ritz, Swiss businessman, founded The Ritz Hotel, London and Hôtel Ritz Paris († 1918)

• 1704 » Georg Muffat, French organist and composer (b. 1653)
• 1766 » Stanisław Leszczyński, Polish king (b. 1677)
• 1781 » George Taylor, Irish-American blacksmith and politician (b. 1716)
• 1792 » Joshua Reynolds, English painter and academic (b. 1723)
• 1821 » John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
• 1848 » John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1855 » Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
• 1859 » Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1812)
• 1879 » Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (b. 1803)
• 1897 » Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (b. 1828)

• 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)
• May 22 » Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
• June 6 » In the Seven Years' War, British forces begin the Siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city.
• June 24 » Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia.
• July 17 » Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
• September 12 » The Sultanate of Sulu ceded Balambangan Island to the British East India Company
• September 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.

The temperature on February 23, 1762 was about 3.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest by west. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.