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• Antonius Weernink, Borne
• Antoine Vinet, St Anne de Bellevue, Quebec († 1790)
• Abraham Meertens, Hoek
• Anna Elisabeth de BACKER, Kasterlee, Antwerpen
• Cornelis Cornelisz Boersen, Texel († 1820)
• Arie Schoon, Brielle, Nederland († 1779)
• Antoine Joseph LEMAIRE, Gonnehem,62376,Pas-de-Calais,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE († 1834)
• Antonie Hoek van, Asten, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1811)
• Antonius Van Hoek, Asten († 1811)
• Annigje Jans Verrijp, Zuid Beijerland († 1828)

• Arnoldus Lips (47), Rijsbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hans Jakob Schnewli Schwnebli (70), Affoltern, Zürich, Ch
• Antje Cornelis Voogt (72), Petten,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• henricus nijssen (60), helden-panningen (everlo)
• Arnold Jacoby (0), Neerwinden
• Hendrik Gijsbertsz de Wild (0), De Lier
• Coenraad Temminck (74), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Kenbeek (73), Leiden (Zuid-Holland)
• Hendrikje Dorresteijn (33), Driebergen
• Catarina Kembeek (72), Leiden

• 1737 » Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist († 1809)
• 1741 » Henri-Joseph Rigel, German-French composer († 1799)
• 1748 » Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English admiral and politician, Commodore Governor of Newfoundland († 1817)
• 1763 » Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden († 1830)
• 1769 » George W. Campbell, Scottish-American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1848)
• 1773 » William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States († 1841)
• 1775 » Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician and academic († 1856)
• 1781 » Johann Baptist von Spix, German biologist and explorer († 1826)
• 1783 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator († 1852)
• 1789 » Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand († 1849)

• 1640 » Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
• 1670 » Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
• 1675 » Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
• 1709 » François Louis, Prince of Conti (b. 1664)
• 1777 » Seth Pomeroy, American general and gunsmith (b. 1706)
• 1803 » Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier, poet, and philosopher (b. 1716)
• 1857 » Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet and translator (b. 1798)
• 1874 » Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (b. 1798)
• 1881 » Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (b. 1821)
• 1891 » Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)

• 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 4 » Great Britain declares war on Spain, thus entering the Seven Years' War.
• March 10 » French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
• May 5 » Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
• July 9 » Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
• 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 9, 1762 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest by west. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.