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• Aagje Ariens van der Zaal, Lisse
• Gertrudis Faaij, Cabauw († 1854)
• Abram Lankamp, Almelo († 1824)
• Cornelis Smolders († 1769)
• Cornelis Romkes (LANGENDIJK), Oosterwierum, Friesland, Nederland
• Johann Hermann Weseler, Aschendorf, Emsland, Niedersachsen († 1813)
• Joanna Verbesselt, parochie Sint-Martinus, Meise, Vlaams-Brabant, België († 1818)
• Joanna van Oosterbos (Oosterbosch), Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Grégoire Joseph CAPRON, Brebières,62117,Pas-de-Calais,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Gesina Bordewijk, Zwolle

• Haagen Halvorsen Heyerdahl (51), Aurskog-Høland, Norvège
• Sarah BLOOD (84), Little Compton,RI
• Peeter Jan~Thijs (70)
• Josephus Lievens, Varsenare
• Elisabeth Somers (41), Weerde
• Marie-Élisabeth Michaud (80), Kamouraska, Québec, Canada
• Frederik Joannesz Scrinerius (0), Dongjum, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Tieleman Jans Donkers, Andel
• Agnes Leopoldine von Anhalt-Köthen (42), Köthen, Allemagne
• Agnes Leopoldine Prinses van Anhalt-Köthen (42)

• 1746 » Thomas Heyward, Jr., American judge and politician († 1809)
• 1750 » Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, playwright, and politician († 1794)
• 1783 » Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer († 1860)
• 1796 » Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian businessman, founded the Bösendorfer Company († 1859)
• 1804 » Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher († 1872)
• 1815 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel († 1889)
• 1844 » Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet († 1889)
• 1857 » Ballington Booth, English-American activist, co-founded Volunteers of America († 1940)
• 1860 » Elias M. Ammons, American businessman and politician, 19th Governor of Colorado († 1925)
• 1860 » Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia († 1922)

• 1718 » Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (b. 1630)
• 1741 » Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1678)
• 1750 » Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer (b. 1685)
• 1762 » George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1691)
• 1794 » Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French soldier and politician (b. 1767)
• 1794 » Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the Committee of Public Safety (b. 1758)
• 1808 » Selim III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1761)
• 1809 » Richard Beckett, English cricketer and captain (b.1772)
• 1818 » Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1746)
• 1835 » Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (b. 1768)

• 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.
• May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
• 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 July 28, 1766 was about 18.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: regen.