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• Adriana de Laure, Maarheeze
• Adrianus Verhagen, Leiden
• Andriesjen Alberts Regtop, Noordwolde
• Aaltje Heijink, Warnsveld († 1766)
• Aart Cornelisz Sterk, Culemborg († 1822)
• Aldegondis van den Heurck, Stratum
• Adrienne Zegera van Weerdenburg, Wamel, West Maas en Waal, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1836)
• Andries Sigmont (Sigemond), Amsterdam († 1767)
• Adriaan Hoogeveen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andries Pieters Winkel, Hallum

• Marinus ( Bogaerde ) Bogaert (53), Koekelare
• Joachim Kölsch\Kolsthorn (59), Börgitz,Stendal,Sachsen-Anhalt,Bundesrepublick Deutschland
• Basile SINECHAL (76), Court-Saint-Étienne, 1490, Brabant Wallon, Belgique
• Bregitta WIGMAN (42), Batavia, Nederlands Indië, Indonesië
• Joannes Baptista van Bogaert (6), Temse
• Maria Jans Claassens (76), Zyfflich, D
• Maarten ROMEIJN (34)
• Joannes Kemp (69), Kestert, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
• Johan Leonard Pichot, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Cornelisz DORSMAN (38)

• 1687 » Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer († 1750)
• 1710 » Jonathan Trumbull, American colonel and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut († 1785)
• 1725 » Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist († 1810)
• 1792 » Christian Gmelin, German chemist and pharmacist († 1860)
• 1798 » Pedro I, emperor of Brazil († 1834)
• 1801 » Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1873)
• 1815 » William J. Hardee, American general († 1873)
• 1838 » George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland († 1905)
• 1840 » Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress († 1909)
• 1855 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic († 1922)

• 1678 » Edmund Berry Godfrey, English lawyer and judge (b. 1621)
• 1679 » William Gurnall, English minister, theologian, and author (b. 1617)
• 1685 » Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian lawyer and jurist (b. 1628)
• 1730 » Frederick IV, king of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671)
• 1758 » Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, Irish field marshal and politician (b. 1680)
• 1812 » Juan José Castelli, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1764)
• 1845 » Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, Quaker and philanthropist (b. 1780)
• 1858 » Hiroshige, Japanese painter (b. 1797)
• 1870 » Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807)
• 1875 » Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)

• 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.
• 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 October 12, 1766 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by south. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: rijp.