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• Bartle Jansen, Peins/Zweins
• Bareld Rienks de Boer, Witveen, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1865)
• Cornelis Keetlaar, Wissenkerke,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antoine Op den Camp, Stein, Limburg, Nederland († 1833)
• Adrianus Smaers, Herselt,, Antwerpen, België († 1845)
• Barbara Geertruida Twijsel, Amboina, Molukken († 1834)
• Andreas Welvaarts, Liempde, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barteld Rienks de Boer, Witveen, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1865)
• Catharina de Cousemaecker, Maldegem Vlaamse gewest
• Barteld de Boer, Witveen (bij Oostermeer), Groningen, Nederland († 1865)

• Matthias SCHOLPP (38), Poppenweiler, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Alegondis Alert van den Heuvel (57), Erp
• Anna Constantia Harencarspel, van van Beverwijk (53)
• Marie GERARDIN (35), Juville, 57590, Moselle, Lorraine, Grand Est, France
• Laurentius van Gool (61), Chaam
• Albert (Paulusz) Kikkert (68), Den Burg
• Albert Kikkert (68), Den Burg
• Albert Paulusz Kikkert, Texel, an island, Netherlands
• Anne-Marie WOLF (2), Illfurth, 68, Haut Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Anna Constantia van Harencarspel Beverwijk (53), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland NL

• 1692 » Joseph Butler, English bishop, theologian, and apologist († 1752)
• 1711 » Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician († 1787)
• 1777 » John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist († 1852)
• 1778 » Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Austria († 1854)
• 1785 » John Wilson, Scottish author and critic († 1854)
• 1797 » Frederick Augustus II of Saxony († 1854)
• 1822 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist († 1896)
• 1835 » Charles N. Sims, American Methodist preacher and 3rd chancellor of Syracuse University († 1908)
• 1850 » Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist († 1925)
• 1851 » James Budd, American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of California († 1908)

• 1721 » Maria Barbara Carillo, victim of the Spanish Inquisition (b.1625)
• 1733 » Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (b. 1761)
• 1780 » Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)
• 1781 » Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian-Indian rebel leader (b. 1742)
• 1792 » Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)
• 1795 » Robert Rogers, English colonel (b. 1731)
• 1799 » Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and publisher (b. 1732)
• 1800 » Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
• 1807 » John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (b. 1721)
• 1808 » Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738)

• 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)
• February 29 » Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
• April 4 » In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
• May 10 » Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
• June 21 » James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
• November 5 » Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
• December 1 » The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.

The temperature on May 18, 1768 was about 12.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: regen donker.