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• Aaltje Smit, Wervershoof, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1820)
• Aleijda Toebes, Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1847)
• Aalt Bouwhuijs, Ede,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Aaltjen Meinderts Kling, Westerlee en Heiligerlee († 1846)
• Abraham Wage, Zuidzande († 1835)
• Abraham Abrahamsz Wage, Zuidzande, Sluis, Zeeuws Vlaanderen, Netherlands († 1835)
• Andries WALBROEK, Rotterdam
• Reinders Jantjen, Westerbork († 1819)
• Adrianus Jacobus Bilt van de, Utrecht, Utr, Nederland
• Aaltje Alberts (Aaltien) Groenewold, Slochteren

• Hendrikjen Logtenberg (3)
• Lena Arijsd Van Den BERG (6)
• Henricus Henrici Weijgerganks, Den Dungen, NL
• Jan Gerrits van Besouw (54)
• (10l)Jan Gerrits van Besouw (54), Goirle
• Arnoldus Reep (0), Amsterdam
• Joseph Freame (65), Norwich,Norfolk,England
• Aaltjen Heijink, Warnsveld, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Feyke Olpherts Meeuw (18), Borkum
• Jaapje Fransd van Gijsel (4)

• 1719 » Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian priest, theoretician, and academic († 1796)
• 1721 » Mark Akenside, English physician and poet († 1770)
• 1723 » Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg († 1787)
• 1731 » Benjamin Banneker, American farmer, surveyor, and author († 1806)
• 1732 » Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, French businesswoman and author († 1776)
• 1773 » Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, Danish author († 1856)
• 1799 » Gustav, Prince of Vasa († 1877)
• 1801 » Gail Borden, American surveyor and publisher, invented condensed milk († 1874)
• 1802 » Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister, journalist, and activist († 1837)
• 1810 » Bernhard von Langenbeck, German general, surgeon, and academic († 1887)

• 1623 » William Camden, English historian and topographer (b. 1551)
• 1641 » Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1610)
• 1677 » Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
• 1766 » Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer and diplomat (b. 1692)
• 1770 » John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (b. 1693)
• 1778 » Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1720)
• 1801 » Carl Stamitz, German-Czech violinist and composer (b. 1745)
• 1848 » Robert Blum, German poet and politician (b. 1810)
• 1854 » Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (b. 1757)
• 1880 » Edwin Drake, American businessman (b. 1819)

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. Johann

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.
• 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 November 9, 1766 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: ijs.