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• Balthasar AEBLI, Ennenda (GL) († 1842)
• Aaltje Huurman, Oudekerk aan de IJssel († 1826)
• Cornelius Wouters, Gierle
• anne jeanne jh. STIEVENART, Dour (Belgium) Hainaut
• Adriaan Adriaanszn Minnaard, Yerseke († 1814)
• Cornelius Rijkenberg
• Adrianus van Hoeck, Helmond, Noord-Brabant († 1826)
• Antonius Gruijthuijsen, Aalst, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1828)
• Anton van Erp, Oss
• Cornelis Pieterszoon RIJKENBERG, Purmerend, Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Henricus Willems Huis in 't Veld, Oxe bij Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• barend van der TOUW (53), 's-gravenzande
• Franz Wunderlich (71), Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Alexander De Graeve (45), Poeke (Oost-Vlaanderen, België)
• Catharina Angela Gartmann (75), Bad Iburg, Bad Iburg, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Adriaan Van den Broeck (71), Vorselaar, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Jacominia Deunk (70), Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Barent van der Touw (52), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jacob Weis (73), Porstendorf, Mährisch-Trübau
• Joannes Peters Brock (76), Loon op Zand

• 1764 » John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist († 1831)
• 1769 » Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat († 1835)
• 1770 » Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general († 1843)
• 1778 » Pierre Bretonneau, French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy († 1862)
• 1781 » Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader († 1830)
• 1782 » Alexander Macomb, American general († 1841)
• 1783 » Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian († 1859)
• 1791 » Anne Lister, English diarist, mountaineer, and traveller (d.1840)
• 1798 » Charles Wilkes, American admiral, geographer, and explorer (d.1877)
• 1807 » Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer († 1877)

• 1680 » Shivaji, Indian emperor, founded the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
• 1682 » Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1618)
• 1691 » Jean Petitot, French-Swiss painter (b. 1608)
• 1695 » Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. 1636)
• 1717 » Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (b. 1640)
• 1728 » James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (b. 1662)
• 1792 » George Pocock, English admiral (b. 1706)
• 1804 » Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest, historian, and author (b. 1727)
• 1827 » Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (b. 1756)
• 1838 » François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician and author (b. 1780)

• 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)
• 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 22 » Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
• June 24 » Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia.
• 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
• October 6 » Seven Years' War: The British Capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.

The temperature on April 3, 1762 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest by west. Weather type: helder.