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• Benedicta Wiltink, Aerdt, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Baeten, Bilzen († 1837)
• Arnoldus van Mierlo, Waalre († 1818)
• Anna Cornelia Snellen († 1773)
• Carolus Baptista Vaneste, Moorsele West-Vlaanderen
• Catharina Mary Neave, Londen († 1849)
• Arnoldus Franken, Elten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• ambroise CAPIAUX, Wasmes (Belgium) Hainaut († 1840)
• Aaltjen Everts, Niekerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Jans Noorda, Noordbroek, Groningen, Nederland († 1834)

• Adriana Ternadt (71), Stekene (B)
• Alegunda van Duen, Princenhage
• Anke HARMENS (27), West-Terschelling, Terschelling, Fryslân, Nederland
• Benjamin Mann (73), Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
• Abraham Durham (51), Baltimore County, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Anke, West Terschelling
• Anna Antonius LOOMANS (75), Gilze, 3596, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirkje Jansen Velthuijsen (41), Renswoude
• Annetie Philippus (Tweeling), Winschoten
• enfant sans vie GILLET (0), Saint-Sylvain-d'Anjou, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France

• 1740 » Nicholas Pocock, English naval painter (d.1821)
• 1760 » Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician († 1794)
• 1769 » DeWitt Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of New York († 1828)
• 1770 » Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French general († 1826)
• 1779 » Joel Roberts Poinsett, American physician and politician, 15th United States Secretary of War († 1851)
• 1793 » Sam Houston, American soldier and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas († 1863)
• 1800 » Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian-Italian poet and philosopher († 1844)
• 1810 » Pope Leo XIII († 1903)
• 1816 » Alexander Bullock, American lawyer and politician, 26th Governor of Massachusetts († 1882)
• 1817 » János Arany, Hungarian journalist and poet († 1882)

• 1729 » Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662)
• 1755 » Louis de Rouvroy, French duke and diplomat (b. 1675)
• 1791 » John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (b. 1703)
• 1793 » Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-Danish painter and academic (b. 1711)
• 1797 » Horace Walpole, English historian and politician (b. 1717)
• 1829 » Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, Mexican revolutionary (b. ca. 1773)
• 1830 » Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (b. 1755)
• 1835 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
• 1855 » Nicholas I, Russian emperor (b. 1796)

• 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 20 » The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
• April 29 » James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
• June 19 » New Church Day: Emanuel Swedenborg writes: "The Lord sent forth His twelve disciples, who followed Him in the world into the whole spiritual world to preach the Gospel that the Lord God Jesus Christ reign. This took place on the 19th day of June, in the year 1770."
• July 7 » The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
• August 22 » James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
• November 14 » James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.

The temperature on March 2, 1770 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: omtrent helder zeer betrokken.