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• Anna Maria Kiesecoms, Tielt OLV († 1815)
• Hendrikje Roelofs Snijder, Ruinen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1835)
• Antje Smit
• Eva Adriaen van de Ven, Tilburg
• Eli Trego, Honeybrook Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1825)
• Heine Egges Dijkhuizen (Diekhuizen), Stedum († 1839)
• Cornelis Arien Stark, Petten
• Dorothea Van Goethem, Kemzeke (B)
• Heine Egges Dijkhuizen, Stedum, Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland († 1839)
• Cornelis Willemse Bos, Harenkarspel († 1836)

• Anna Sanguszko (26)
• Anna Prinses Sanguszka (26)
• Clasina Christina Ovink (0), Haarlem
• Crawford Scott (31), Naran, County Donegal, Ireland
• Cornelia Sesvingers (66), Made en Drimmelen
• Anne Wallis (40), Layston Parish, Hertfordshire, England
• Jan Muijs, Amersfoort
• Adriaan Claas van Alphen (66), Made
• Jacobus van Lier (34), Neer, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Sanguszko Lubartowicz (26)

• 1699 » Osman III, Ottoman sultan († 1757)
• 1713 » Marie Dumesnil, French actress († 1803)
• 1727 » James Wolfe, English general († 1759)
• 1732 » František Brixi, Czech organist and composer († 1771)
• 1777 » Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator († 1857)
• 1803 » Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic († 1869)
• 1822 » Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician († 1888)
• 1827 » Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician († 1914)
• 1833 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician († 1893)
• 1836 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author († 1917)

• 1614 » Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish mystical poet and Catholic martyr (b. 1566)
• 1726 » Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and composer (b. 1688)
• 1763 » John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
• 1850 » Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (b. 1789)
• 1861 » Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)

• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on January 2, 1766 was about -5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.