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• Adriana Esseles (van Es), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Benedictus De Wolf, Moorsel († 1773)
• Adriana Staassens, Vessem († 1797)
• Engelina Versteeden, Moergestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolus van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1764)
• Daniel Alckmeijer, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Geertruij Blok, Baarland († 1841)
• Gravin Lucia Jeanette van Limburg Stirum, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1845)
• Cent Jansz Kool, Gouderak, Nederland († 1847)
• Adriana van Es, Leiden,Leiden,Zuid-Holland,Nederland

• Anneke Cornelis van der Wal (60)
• Gesina EGBRINGHOFF (31)
• Charles Hubert BERNARD (7), Marquette-en-Ostrevant,59252,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Anna Cramer
• Antonius (Theunus) Henkelman (47), Amsterdam
• Leendert Watering van de (0), Hillegersberg
• Joanna De Wulf (43), parochie Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Geboorte, Nazareth, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Adriana Jan Geerts (60), Tilburg
• Marie Anne Joseph CARON (59), Hersin-Coupigny,62443,Pas-de-Calais,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Petrus Arnoldus Daniels (1), schinnen

• 1715 » Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and academic († 1769)
• 1719 » Michel-Jean Sedaine, French playwright († 1797)
• 1729 » George Leonard, American lawyer, jurist and politician († 1819)
• 1753 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight († 1809)
• 1790 » George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor († 1866)
• 1799 » Oscar I of Sweden († 1859)
• 1804 » Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer († 1864)
• 1807 » Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician († 1882)
• 1816 » Hiram Walker, American businessman, founded Canadian Club whisky († 1899)
• 1826 » Stephen Foster, American songwriter and composer († 1864)

• 1742 » Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1671)
• 1754 » Philippe Néricault Destouches, French playwright and author (b. 1680)
• 1761 » Samuel Richardson, English author and painter (b. 1689)
• 1780 » Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (b. 1712)
• 1787 » Charles, Prince of Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
• 1821 » Richard Cosway, English painter and academic (b. 1742)
• 1826 » John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
• 1826 » Thomas Jefferson, American architect, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
• 1831 » James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
• 1848 » François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician (b. 1768)

• 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 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
• January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
• September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The temperature on July 4, 1764 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: wat dauw.