About the day » Sunday September 18, 1774Calender converter

• Aaldert ten Kate
• Albert ARINK, Bauerhausen, gem. Uelsen, Duitsland († 1830)
• Adriaantje Van Den Berg, Sliedrecht
• "Neeltje" Pietersdr Daalder, Den Hoorn (Texel) († 1853)
• Angelus Albert Demoor, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Adrianus Josephus VAN DER KELEN, Pamel († 1848)
• Aart Kriek, Groot Schermer
• Albertje Willems (Albertien) Bosma, Nijeholtpade, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1857)
• Adriaan van Oudenaarden, Sint-Annaland
• (Jan) Willem Bussink, Varsseveld (GL) († 1847)

• Adam Visser (50), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland (Netherlands)
• Francois de Sales Dumais Demers (73), Sainte-Geneviève-de-Pierrefonds, Montréal (Urban Agglomeration), Quebec, Canada
• Joannes Bernardus Van Coillie (50), Gits,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Jan Dirksz Busink (60)
• Lena Prancke van Bloois (55), Oosterland, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Étienne FASSNACHT, Burnhaupt-le-Haut, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Johanna Petronella Vervoort (44), Rossum GLD
• Matthias Stenger (79), Weidenhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Joanna Theresia Proot (31), Ardooie
• Hanna Cornelissen van Beckberghen (64)

• 1711 » Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian composer and educator († 1783)
• 1733 » George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Delaware († 1798)
• 1750 » Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Spanish poet and playwright († 1791)
• 1752 » Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist († 1833)
• 1765 » Pope Gregory XVI († 1846)
• 1779 » Joseph Story, American lawyer, jurist, and politician († 1845)
• 1786 » Christian VIII of Denmark († 1848)
• 1786 » Justinus Kerner, German poet and author († 1862)
• 1812 » Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Georgia († 1880)
• 1819 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic († 1868)

• 1721 » Matthew Prior, English poet, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (b. 1664)
• 1722 » André Dacier, French scholar and academic (b. 1651)
• 1783 » Benjamin Kennicott, English theologian and scholar (b. 1718)
• 1783 » Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)
• 1792 » August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (b. 1704)
• 1812 » Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman politician, 186th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1743)
• 1830 » William Hazlitt, English philosopher, painter, and critic (b. 1778)
• 1857 » Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1785)
• 1860 » Joseph Locke, English engineer and politician (b. 1805)
• 1872 » Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826)

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.
• March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
• June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
• October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".

The temperature on September 18, 1774 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.