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• Clara Hoefmans, Alphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gysbeta (Gijsberta) Leutjens (Lotiens), Emmerich (D)
• Caspar Mollemans, Boxmeer († 1766)
• Adriaan Kievits, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Limbeek, Leiden,Leiden,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1832)
• Anna Maria Josepha van Lamoen, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België († 1845)
• Clara Hoefmans, Alphen, Alphen-Chaam, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Elisabeth Berling, Versen (Dld) († 1837)
• Gerrit - Hansens ten Cate gr († 1814)
• Anna Catharina Elisabeth Beerling, Versen, Meppen, Emsland

• Antje Alderts Koorn (49)
• Aalbert van Nahuys (42)
• Jacobus Wils (33), Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Catharina Messchaert (2), Opperdoes,Gemeente Medemblik,North Holland,Netherlands
• Aartje Jans van de Kijkover (68), Ermelo-Horst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina Elisabeth Wenders (44), Landkreis Düsseldorf, Derendorf, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Aertje Jans van Asselt, Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aartje Jans van Asselt (68), Ermelo
• Hendrika van der Wolk, Utrecht
• Aartje Jansen van Asselt (68), Ermelo

• 1703 » Thomas Clap, American minister and academic († 1767)
• 1726 » Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia († 1796)
• 1730 » Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic († 1817)
• 1764 » Jan Paweł Łuszczewski, Polish politician († 1812)
• 1796 » Jan Paweł Lelewel, Polish painter and engineer († 1847)
• 1798 » Wolfgang Menzel, German poet and critic († 1873)
• 1817 » Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet († 1848)
• 1819 » Abner Doubleday, American general († 1893)
• 1821 » Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian soldier, journalist, and politician, 6th President of Argentina († 1906)
• 1824 » William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer († 1907)

• 1752 » Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
• 1757 » Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1784 » Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (b. 1728)
• 1793 » Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (b. 1720)
• 1793 » James Dickey, Irish revolutionary (b. 1776)
• 1795 » Johannes Jährig, German linguist and translator (b. 1747)
• 1808 » Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
• 1810 » Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
• 1830 » George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
• 1836 » Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French soldier and composer (b. 1760)

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 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

The temperature on June 26, 1766 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: donder.