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• Dennis la Plaije, Wichtrach (Zwitserland) († 1813)
• Caroline Maria Plevier, Bergen op Zoom, N.B († 1814)
• Cornelius Wit de, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Joannes Smits, Eindhoven,Gemeente Eindhoven,North Brabant,Netherlands († 1838)
• Cornelius van Meerhoven, Made, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland († 1778)
• Aartje Gerrits Beek, Nunspeet († 1821)
• Ariaantje Sevenhuijsen, Noordwijk-Binnen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Keymolen, Londerzeel († 1775)
• Cornelia Johanna Willemina Weert de, Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Bernardus Theebelt, Rossum, Overijssel, Nederland, Nederland

• Christina van Oldemark (77), Haarlem
• Arij Pietersz van der Does (78), Katwijk aan den Rijn
• Geertrui Brocken- (60), Tilburg, Nederland
• Elizabeth van Meulen (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Eunice Strong (67), Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
• Grietje Rommerts Politiek (32)
• Gosewijn(us) Versteege, Schipluiden
• Gosewijn (Gose) Versteege (Versteeg, Verstegen) (59), Schipluiden, gem. Midden-Delftland, ZH, Nederland
• Anna Hogenbos (36), Haarlem
• Geertruid BROCKEN (60), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1722 » Eliza Lucas, Caribbean-American agriculturalist († 1793)
• 1763 » John Molson, English-Canadian brewer, founded the Molson Brewery († 1836)
• 1775 » Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Swiss banker and photographer († 1863)
• 1789 » Catharine Maria Sedgwick, American novelist of "domestic fiction" († 1867)
• 1798 » Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer and mathematician († 1844)
• 1818 » Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist and academic († 1897)
• 1842 » Calixa Lavallée, Canadian-American lieutenant and composer († 1891)
• 1856 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)
• 1865 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter († 1925)
• 1870 » Charles Bennett, English runner († 1949)

• 1694 » Mary II of England (b. 1662)
• 1703 » Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
• 1706 » Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (b. 1647)
• 1708 » Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist and mycologist (b. 1656)
• 1715 » William Carstares, Scottish minister and academic (b. 1649)
• 1734 » Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (b. 1671)
• 1736 » Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)
• 1785 » Peter Ernst Wilde, Polish-Estonian physician and journalist (b. 1732)
• 1795 » Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian physician and lawyer (b. 1747)
• 1859 » Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English historian and politician, Secretary at War (b. 1800)

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. Aaltje
13. Antje
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)
• January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
• July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
• September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
• September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on December 28, 1774 was about 6.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.