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• Garrit Jan Horstman, Harfsen († 1841)
• Barbara Moodie, Melsetter House, North Walls, Orkney, Scotland († 1842)
• Aletta Cornelisdr Van Dijk, Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Hiltie Halbes, Bergum († 1836)
• Hiltje Halbes, Bergum, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aletje Aletta van Dijk, Gemeente Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland († 1848)
• Hendrik Pols, Brielle
• Frans van Wijngaarden (van Wingerden) (Oud_Grootvader), Naaldwijk († 1825)
• Bernardus De Laet (Laedt), Perk
• Henricus Swurtjens, Nederweert († 1816)

• Maarte Jansz Goedhart (70), Noorden
• Jan Blekton (Blekston) (75), Dordrecht
• Anna Joannes Pieterse Obels (75), Breda
• Frans Fransz de Moeij (23)
• Anna Janssen Obels (75), Breda
• Elisabeth van Gammeren (34), Giessen
• Berent Gerrits Vos (38), Wanneperveen, Nederland
• Cornelia Arents van der Drift
• Jacobus Josephus VAN BELLEGHEM (0), Sijsele,8340,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Neeltje Philipsdr Moerkerken (80), Numansdorp

• 1711 » Laura Bassi, Italian physician, physicist, and academic († 1778)
• 1714 » Hedvig Taube, Swedish courtier († 1744)
• 1724 » Christopher Anstey, English author and poet († 1805)
• 1729 » Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta, Spanish cleric, Archbishop of Mexico, Viceroy of New Spain († 1800)
• 1737 » James Lovell, American educator and politician († 1789)
• 1760 » Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker († 1849)
• 1795 » John Keats, English poet († 1821)
• 1815 » Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic († 1897)
• 1815 » Thomas Chapman, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Tasmania († 1884)
• 1825 » Charles Lavigerie, French-Algerian cardinal and academic († 1892)

• 1659 » John Bradshaw, English lawyer and judge, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1602)
• 1661 » Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman politician, 109th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1575)
• 1723 » Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
• 1732 » Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1666)
• 1733 » Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
• 1744 » Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
• 1768 » Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1690)
• 1806 » Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist and printmaker (b. ca. 1753)
• 1860 » Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1788)

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

The temperature on October 31, 1766 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken.