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• Albert Hilverts Hoijting, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1850)
• Adrianus Clementsz van Zwieten, Ter Aar (Korteraar)
• Anna Korrij, Hall, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aldegonde Wellens, Beverlo, Limburg, België († 1826)
• Albertje Berends Hazenberg, Midwolde († 1854)
• Anna Elisabeth Goethuys, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Tielt, Tielt-Winge, Vlaams-Brabant, België († 1842)
• Adriana Blok, Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1843)
• Alida van Kuilenburg, Zoelmond, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Oosterhout, Terheijden († 1851)
• Adriana Blok, Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland († 1843)

• Elisabeth Oortwijn (41), Groningen
• Aaltje Douwes (36), Hantum, Dongeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Cornelia van der Vossen (30)
• Leonardus Lindert Leonard Boelders Boeljers Bolders (76), Kekerdom
• Denis Arnaud (69), Uvernet-Fours ( Rousse )
• JAN RICARDUS DE CALUWE (59), DE KLINGE,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Maartje Kuijper (42), Koog aan de Zaan N.H. Nederland
• Maartje Cornelisdochter KUIJPER (42), Koog aan De Zaan, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Loogh Corthals (88), Wenum (Apeldoorn)
• Geesje Woutman, Amsterdam, St. Anthonis Kerkhof

• 1737 » George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Irish-English politician and diplomat, Governor of Grenada († 1806)
• 1752 » Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist and author († 1828)
• 1752 » Timothy Dwight IV, American minister, theologian, and academic († 1817)
• 1761 » Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1816)
• 1771 » Robert Owen, Welsh businessman and social reformer († 1858)
• 1771 » Thomas Wedgwood, English photographer († 1805)
• 1781 » Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian and academic († 1873)
• 1794 » Fanny Imlay, daughter of British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft († 1816)
• 1814 » Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company († 1876)
• 1817 » Alexander Kaufmann, German poet and educator († 1893)

• 1667 » Georges de Scudéry, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1601)
• 1688 » Antoine Furetière, French scholar, lexicographer, and author (b. 1619)
• 1754 » Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright and producer (b. 1692)
• 1761 » Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710)
• 1847 » Fanny Mendelssohn, German pianist and composer (b. 1805)
• 1860 » Ludwig Bechstein, German author (b. 1801)
• 1873 » Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and author (b. 1797)
• 1878 » Ōkubo Toshimichi, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1830)
• 1881 » Mary Seacole, Jamaican-English nurse and author (b. 1805)
• 1889 » Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1809)

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

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

• 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)
• June 14 » American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
• July 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
• August 20 » The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
• September 25 » American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
• October 13 » The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
• November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

The temperature on May 14, 1775 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest by west. Weather type: betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw.