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• Christina van Hout, Beek en Donk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1844)
• DIRKJE JANSDR VAN LUNTEREN, De Vuursche († 1853)
• Everdina Offenberg, Elten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Angelica DURNEZ, Geluveld
• Barbara Kluijtmans, Sint-Oedenrode
• Aleida van Deelen, Didam, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Meteling († 1810)
• Catharina HENDRIX, Tegelen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Bernardina Offenberg, Elten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Christian Hunter, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Gerrit Kriek (34), Azie
• Gerrit Martens (37), Aarle-Rixtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dingeman Jans Kools (54), Nispen-Essen
• Anna Maria (Aldegonde) TRUYMAN (71)
• Aaltien Alingh (42), Gasselte
• Charles la Faille (41), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltien Aling (42), Gasselte, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abigail Curtis (87), Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• Grietje Coenraads Peisel (30), Makkum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Bryan Broughton Delves (25), Andover, Hampshire, England

• 1691 » Peter Scheemakers, Belgian sculptor and educator († 1781)
• 1728 » Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer and educator († 1800)
• 1749 » Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and playwright († 1803)
• 1757 » Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral and politician, 3rd Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland († 1834)
• 1807 » Charles Henry Davis, American admiral († 1877)
• 1815 » Henry Halleck, American lawyer, general, and scholar († 1872)
• 1821 » John C. Breckinridge, American general and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States († 1875)
• 1834 » Robert R. Hitt, American lawyer and politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State († 1906)
• 1836 » Francis II of the Two Sicilies († 1894)
• 1838 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist († 1917)

• 1710 » Higashiyama, Japanese emperor (b. 1675)
• 1711 » Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651)
• 1747 » Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet and playwright (b. 1680)
• 1748 » Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch lawyer and scholar (b. 1684)
• 1750 » Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667)
• 1752 » Francis Blomefield, English historian and author (b. 1705)
• 1794 » Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (b. 1737)
• 1809 » John Moore, Scottish general and politician (b. 1761)
• 1817 » Alexander J. Dallas, Jamaican-American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1759)
• 1834 » Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)

• 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.
• 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.
• December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

The temperature on January 16, 1766 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: donker.