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• Arie Teunissen van Wijgerden, Brakel († 1821)
• Catharina Adelheidis Neerschulte, Schapen (Kreis Lingen, Nedersachsen), Duitsland
• Cornelis van 't HOF, Brouwershaven
• Berend Berentsen Spijkerbosch, Olst († 1836)
• Cornelius Adriaanssens, Woensdrecht
• Afke Sjoerds Postma, Heeg († 1855)
• Arie Teunisse van Wijgerden, Brakel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1831)
• Christianus Kenens, Overpelt, 3900 (B)
• Antje Sjoerds Brandsma, Schraard († 1829)
• Arie Theunissse van Wijgerden, Brakel († 1831)

• Egbert Minderts (74), Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Korstiaan Cornelis van der Sluijs (83), ,, Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Joannes Franciscus VAN DEN BOSSCHE (0)
• Francina Aelbertsdr van der Harst (61), Scheveningen
• Christiaan Arnold PLESSERS (56), Bilzen, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Dorothea Maria Schaepman (0), Zwolle,Gemeente Zwolle,Overijssel,Netherlands
• Hendrik Kees Klaver (24), Azie
• Antje Janse Schut, Amersfoort
• Arnold Vrancken, Heers, Heers, Limburg, België
• Egidius de MEYER (1), Boom, Antwerpen, België

• 1714 » Hedvig Taube, Swedish courtier († 1744)
• 1724 » Christopher Anstey, English author and poet († 1805)
• 1729 » Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta, Spanish cleric, Archbishop of Mexico, Viceroy of New Spain († 1800)
• 1737 » James Lovell, American educator and politician († 1789)
• 1760 » Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker († 1849)
• 1795 » John Keats, English poet († 1821)
• 1815 » Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic († 1897)
• 1815 » Thomas Chapman, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Tasmania († 1884)
• 1825 » Charles Lavigerie, French-Algerian cardinal and academic († 1892)
• 1831 » Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist († 1910)

• 1723 » Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
• 1732 » Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1666)
• 1733 » Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
• 1744 » Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
• 1768 » Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1690)
• 1806 » Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist and printmaker (b. ca. 1753)
• 1860 » Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1788)
• 1879 » Jacob Abbott, American author and academic (b. 1803)
• 1879 » Joseph Hooker, American general (b. 1814)

1. Jan
2. Cornelis
3. Johannes
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Gerrit
9. Jacob
10. Petrus
11. Dirk
12. Jacobus
13. Jean
14. John
15. Adrianus
16. Klaas

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Aaltje
14. Elizabeth
15. Adriana
16. Jannetje

• 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)
• May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
• June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• July 21 » Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
• August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
• September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
• September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.

The temperature on October 31, 1774 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: betrokken.