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• Frederik Maximiliaan Christiaan Joseph Graaf van Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg († 1790)
• Edmond Clément Dominique de Kruisbergen de HORION, Hasselt,, Limburg, België († 1834)
• Antje Jaspers, ,, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1833)
• Franciscus_Theodorus_Josephus_(Franszn) VERMEULEN, 's Hertogenbosch
• Anna Maria Mevissen, Breijell (D.) († 1848)
• Barta Maatmans (Roumaat), Schalkhaar († 1804)
• Arie van der Valck, Nootdorp
• Abigail Lee, Sharon, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Anna Catharina Josepha Tyberghein, Moorslede, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1815)
• Antje Jaspers, Drachten († 1833)

• Anna Elisabeth Gruber (Gilbert) (64), New Hanover, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk Willems van Maurik (91), Leerbroek
• Clasina Jans Fransen (0), ,,, Voorst
• Anna Elizabeth {Gruber} Gilbert (64), New Hanover, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
• Laurens Hofstede (84)
• Jacob Klapwijk (3), Benthuizen
• Jacob Ariensz Klapwijk (3), Benthuizen
• Cornelia Janse van den Luijtgaerden (38)
• Elisabeth van Oostenrijk (0)
• Anna Elisabetha Gruber (70), New Hanover, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America

• 1742 » Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic († 1810)
• 1749 » Yolande de Polastron, French educator († 1793)
• 1750 » Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna († 1795)
• 1752 » Carl Stenborg, Swedish opera singer, actor, and director († 1813)
• 1767 » August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and critic († 1845)
• 1774 » Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun and mystic († 1824)
• 1779 » Mustafa IV, Ottoman sultan († 1808)
• 1783 » N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, philosopher, and author († 1872)
• 1804 » Eduard Mörike, German pastor, poet, and academic († 1875)
• 1814 » Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer, and historian († 1874)

• 1656 » Joseph Hall, English bishop (b. 1574)
• 1682 » Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1606)
• 1721 » Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
• 1755 » Ephraim Williams, American soldier and philanthropist (b. 1715)
• 1761 » Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1698)
• 1780 » Enoch Poor, American general (b. 1736)
• 1784 » Ann Lee, English-American religious leader (b. 1736)
• 1811 » Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (b. 1741)
• 1831 » John Aitken, Scottish-American publisher (b. 1745)
• 1853 » Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar, co-founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)

• 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 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.

The temperature on September 8, 1766 was about 17.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: regen betrokken.