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• Alexandre Joseph De Gruson, Herlies, 59134, Nord, FRANCE
• Adriaan Knops, Heusden († 1835)
• Antje Klazes Weidema, Tzum († 1856)
• Antie Clases Weidema, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna van Ringen, Coevorden
• Cornelia Timmers, Teteringen († 1819)
• Anna Elisabeth Mitschke, Johannesdorf, Czech Republic
• Anne Marie LITZLER, Oberdorf (68960, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Alexander Lindsey, Scotland, United Kingdom († 1850)
• Aaltjen Coerdes, Rekken

• Arend│Ary Crijnen Haasnoot (45), Scheveningen
• Jacob Pauw (43), de Rijp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Joannes Jennekens, Schimmert, Limburg, Nederland
• Jannetje van den Berg
• Johanna Maria Jan ROBBEN (37), Berkel-Enschot, Tilburg, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands
• Janneke van Oosterhout (41), Tiel, Nederland
• Johann Friedrich Dessin (53), Borgholzhausen, Duitsland
• Johann Friederich Dessin (53), borgholzhausen, Duitsland
• Joanna Maria Robbens (37), Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Guisbert Guisbertson (56), Allentown, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States

• 1710 » William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household († 1782)
• 1718 » Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher († 1799)
• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)

• 1669 » Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (b. 1596)
• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)

• 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 May 16, 1766 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: dauw.