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• Adriana Hermina Witte, geervliet (zuid holland) († 1857)
• Frans van Eijk, Alphen aan den Rijn
• Frans Janse Overdulve, Haamstede, Nederland († 1771)
• Geertruijd Henrietta van den BERG, Dordrecht
• Geertrui Henriëtta van den Berg, Dordrecht († 1808)
• Albertine Joseph BLONDEL, Beaurains,62217,Pas-de-Calais,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1851)
• Amélie Joseph Louchart, Mont-Bernanchon, Pas-de-Calais, Frankrijk († 1793)
• Christian Gessner, Hesselbach, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1778)
• Anna Catharina WEYNS, Rijkevorsel, Antwerpen, Belgique († 1800)
• Dimpna Voeten, Rucphen

• Eleonora Francisca Debusschere (79), Lichtervelde,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Johannetta Catharina Hoeck (45), K√∂ppern,Hochtaunuskreis,Hessen,Deutschland
• Amelberg Maes (1), Temse, East Flanders, Belgium
• Jacobje Daniëls Schut (45), Loenen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jasper Aartsz Lopik, brandwijk (zuid holland)
• Barend (Barent Bernardus Bartholomeus) van Veen (57), Delft
• Jannetje (Jannetie) Droogeveen (Drogeveen) (67), Leiden
• Abraham De Ronde, Schiedam
• Barbara Dessauvagie (39), Leiden
• Katharina Homrighausen (0), Wunderthausen, Kreis Wittgenstein

• 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)
• April 19 » Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
• April 19 » Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
• April 20 » The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
• May 16 » The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, who later becomes king of France.
• July 5 » The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
• August 22 » James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.

The temperature on May 19, 1770 was about 11.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: donker.