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• Adrianus (Delft) d'Helft, Brugge-West Vlaanderen († 1767)
• Gerardus Hessels, Hilvarenbeek
• Gerardus Hermans, Hulsberg, Nuth († 1835)
• Elisabeth Frank, Feudingen, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1802)
• Franciscus van EEKELEN, Woensdrecht,Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND
• Aard de Fluiter, Veenendaal (Sticht)
• Claas Onderwater, Zoeterwoude († 1824)
• Ernst Friedrich Böttger, Kölleda
• Aaltje Persoon, Monster († 1822)
• Gerardus Hermens Hermans, Hulsberg († 1835)

• Antie Foppes (70), rottevalle
• Ariaantje de Lange (0), Ouderkerk aan den IJssel
• Antje Foppes (70), Rottevalle, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Catrijntje Schenking (1), Naaldwijk
• Catharina Joannes Boons, Liempde
• antje foppes (70), rottevalle
• Arij van Ameijden (53)
• Antje (Antie) Foppes (70), Rottevalle, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje of Antie Foppes (70), Rottevalle
• Dancartius de Keijser (88), Zandvliet, Antwerpen, Belgium

• 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)

1. Jan
2. Cornelis
3. Joannes
4. Johannes
5. Hendrik
6. Pieter
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Gerrit
11. Jacobus
12. Jean
13. Dirk
14. Klaas
15. John
16. Leendert

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Joanna
6. Cornelia
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Grietje
10. Trijntje
11. Neeltje
12. Antje
13. Adriana
14. Jannetje
15. Aaltje
16. Elizabeth

• 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)
• April 7 » End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).
• June 17 » Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
• July 3 » Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
• July 3 » Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
• August 26 » Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus.
• October 11 » Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.

The temperature on May 16, 1767 was about 15.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: betrokken regen.