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• Anna Clara LAROU, Zedelgem († 1771)
• Anna, Catharina Verheerstraeten, Moorsel († 1815)
• Anna Maria Packbeers, Houthem († 1814)
• Ester Levy Madura, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Anna Tijmens Oostveen, Leiden
• Antonia Violante do Espírito Santo, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brasil († 1793)
• Aldegondus van den Brandt, Vlijmen, Nederland
• Adewij\Agatha\Adilia Schenck, Vlaardingen
• Catharina Mechtildis Cremers, Roermond
• Bernhard Friedrich Kind, Mönchweiler, Villingen, Baden, Deutschland († 1845)

• Gerardus van Gen(d)t (57), Randwijk
• Hubertus Jacobus Calcoen (34), Koksijde,8670,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Dierick van den Bosch (64), Wassenaar
• Hendrik Dirkszn Starken (52), Warmenhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• "Gradus" Gerardus Gerardus (57), Randwijk, NL
• Abraham Frederiksen, Terneuzen
• Augustijn Albert Sioen (42), Merkem
• Elsken ten Oostendorp (69), Winterswijk
• Jacques Antoine ZENE (53), Neufchâteau, 84043, Luxembourg, Belgique
• Evert van Veenendaal (75), Elst (Utrecht)

• 1700 » José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda, Spanish sergeant and politician († 1770)
• 1724 » Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, English admiral and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland († 1779)
• 1744 » Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German-born Queen to George III of the United Kingdom († 1818)
• 1762 » Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic († 1814)
• 1773 » Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist († 1854)
• 1795 » Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist († 1873)
• 1827 » Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French academic and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1896)
• 1832 » James Watney, Jr., English politician, brewer and cricketer († 1886)
• 1857 » John Jacob Abel, American biochemist and pharmacologist († 1938)
• 1861 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress († 1931)

• 1715 » Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1786 » John Stanley, English organist and composer (b. 1712)
• 1795 » James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
• 1795 » Josiah Bartlett, American physician and politician, 4th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1729)
• 1798 » William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1722)
• 1821 » Camille Jordan, French lawyer and politician (b. 1771)
• 1825 » Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher and theorist (b. 1760)
• 1831 » Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Estonian-German physician, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1804)
• 1865 » Sengge Rinchen, Mongolian general (b. 1811)

• 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.
• August 26 » Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMSEndeavour.
• 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.
• December 10 » The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
• December 28 » King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.

The temperature on May 19, 1768 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken omtrent helder.