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• Cornelis Rumoldus van de Ven, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1844)
• Bancris Willemse van Zeijl, Poeldijk
• Egidius van BUGGENHOUT, Steenhuffel,Vlaams Brabant,Belgie
• Barbe Eeckelaert, Beveren, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1814)
• Cornelis Rumoldus van de Ven, Boxtel († 1844)
• Barbara Eeckelaert, Beveren
• Engelberta Muller, Griethausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Gertrudis Delfort, Steenbergen
• Anna Catharina HEEREN, Ulbeek,3832,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Emanuel Meerschaut, St Maria Oudenhove († 1769)

• Jan Roelofsen, Ermelo
• Janneke Touw (42), Veere
• Cornelius Aerts (73), Oevel
• Gerritje Evers Brink (0), Zalk en Veecaten, Overijssel, Nederland
• Baartje van der Meulen (79)
• Cornelius Roelofs (53), Huissen
• Teuns (67), Nispen-Essen, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Charlotte Frank (1), Wingeshausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Janneke Touw (42), Veere, Veere, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianne van Schoten (75), Schoonhoven

• 1686 » Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale († 1736)
• 1689 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council († 1769)
• 1743 » Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician († 1793)
• 1789 » Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (d.1828)
• 1794 » William Whewell, English priest and philosopher († 1866)
• 1803 » Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist († 1866)
• 1810 » Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar († 1874)
• 1816 » Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter († 1868)
• 1819 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom († 1901)
• 1830 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic († 1897)

• 1665 » Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Spanish Franciscan abbess and mystic (b. 1602)
• 1734 » Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1792 » George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1718)
• 1806 » John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, Scottish field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire (b. 1723)
• 1843 » Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
• 1848 » Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German author and composer (b. 1797)
• 1861 » Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)

• 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 4 » In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
• 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.
• 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 24, 1768 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: wat dauw.