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• Georg Friedrich Dankert, Zibberick,Börde,Sachsen-Anhalt,Bundesrepublick Deutschland
• Albert Jan de Roodt, Groningen, Netherlands († 1821)
• Adriaan Heijliger Weijters, Udenhout († 1817)
• Cornelis Harmensz, Huijsen
• Anna Catharina Janssens, Geel, België († 1844)
• Adrianus Tossanus WEIJTERS, Udenhout,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1817)
• Cornelis Cornelisz Kos, Zuid-Scharwoude, Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1826)
• Adriana Kleef, Limmen
• Anna Helena Gronninger, Wesuwe, Haren (Ems), Deutschland († 1832)
• Anna Ashley († 1845)

• Antje Janszen (37), Jemgum, Ostfriesland, Germany
• Jacob Dircksen van Asselt (6), Harderwijk
• Dirk Klaasz van Duijn (0), Katwijk aan Zee
• Jan de Bree (36), Koudekerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Jacob van Asselt (6), Harderwijk
• Catharina van Roij (38), Nuenen
• Andreas Jeremias Merkle (Merckle, Markley) (73), Wimpfen, Hesse, Germany
• Hendrik Greven (51), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Tiesse Formers (73), Hijum, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Agnes Josina van Loon (62), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland NL

• 1715 » James Nares, English organist and composer († 1783)
• 1721 » Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician († 1793)
• 1734 » Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian violinist and composer († 1786)
• 1757 » Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician († 1833)
• 1758 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral († 1831)
• 1785 » Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer († 1858)
• 1787 » Deaf Smith, American soldier († 1837)
• 1793 » Ferdinand I of Austria († 1875)
• 1806 » Sarah Bagley, American labor organizer († 1889)
• 1814 » Louis Amédée Achard, French journalist and author († 1875)

• 1733 » Elizabeth Hamilton, countess of Orkney (b. 1657)
• 1739 » Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1682)
• 1768 » Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697)
• 1776 » Jacob Emden, German rabbi and author (b. 1697)
• 1791 » Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1813 » Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (b. 1745)
• 1824 » Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788)
• 1831 » Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)
• 1833 » James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1756)
• 1840 » Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)

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

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

• 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)
• March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
• May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
• July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
• November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
• December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
• December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.

The temperature on April 19, 1766 was about 8.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken.