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• Cornelius Uijtdewilligen, Wouw
• Adriana Debbes, Alkemade, ZUI, Nederland († 1835)
• Dirkje Atzes Wygersma, Sint Jacobiparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands
• Dirk Pietersz van Calcar, Westzaan, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1846)
• Christine Hauwe, Reijmersdaal, Limburg, Belgien
• Bernardus Vermander, Ardooie
• Cornelia Gijsberts Van KRIMPEN, Brandwijk († 1768)
• Andre SCHUVER, Wiesviller, 57745, Moselle, Lorraine, France († 1825)
• Cornelius Uyttewilligen
• Cornelius Cornelissen Uijtdewillegen, Wouw

• Anna Antje (42), Kralingen
• Adriana Josepha Beyne (17), Ramskapelle
• Elisabeth ALSEM, Woerden-NLD
• Antonia RIJCKERS (36), Veldhoven, 4305, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• cornelis hendriks SCHEURWATER (79), woudrichem
• Joannes Baptiste De Dulle (38), Langemark
• Henrich Andreas Busch (0), Sassmannshausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Anna Hoogermost, Kralingen
• Annigje DE KRUIJF (37), Benschop, Gemeente Lopik, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Hermanus de Leeuw (33), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1713 » Meshech Weare, American farmer, lawyer, and politician, 1st Governor of New Hampshire († 1786)
• 1723 » Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist († 1790)
• 1738 » Mary Katherine Goddard, American publisher († 1816)
• 1754 » Salawat Yulayev, Russian poet († 1800)
• 1792 » John Linnell, English painter and engraver († 1882)
• 1801 » Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist († 1868)
• 1806 » Edward Davy, English physician and chemist († 1885)
• 1813 » Otto Jahn, German archaeologist and philologist († 1869)
• 1820 » Athanase Josué Coquerel, Dutch-French preacher and theologian († 1875)
• 1821 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect († 1908)

• 1722 » John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire (b. 1650)
• 1743 » Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, eldest daughter of King Louis XIV of France (b. 1673)
• 1752 » Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1692)
• 1762 » Anne Russell, Countess of Jersey (formerly Duchess of Bedford) (b. c.1705)
• 1777 » Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and playwright (b. 1709)
• 1779 » Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, English lawyer and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1712)
• 1804 » Johann Adam Hiller, German composer and conductor (b. 1728)
• 1824 » Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French lawyer and politician (b. 1739)
• 1849 » Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian and scholar (b. 1780)
• 1850 » William Lawson, English-Australian explorer and politician (b. 1774)

• 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)
• 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.
• 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 June 16, 1766 was about 15.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken.