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• Alijda (Aeltje?) Arends (Arnouts?), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Arij van der Wouden, Lekkerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1846)
• Andries Sybes Mellema, Dokkum, Dongeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1855)
• Cornelia Appels, Tilburg
• arij van der wouden, lekkerkerk (zuid holland) († 1846)
• André Joseph SEGHERS, Silly,7830,Hainaut,Wallonie,BELGIQUE († 1839)
• Aaltje Dekker à Snooy, Oosterland († 1835)
• Armand Mame, Angers, 49007, France († 1848)
• Antonius Cauwenberg, Terheijden
• Aaron Stiles, Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States († 1843)

• Liesebeth Goossensdr. (36), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jean Baptiste Real (0), Troisvilles (F)
• Sarah Newman (54), England
• Sjouwk Pytters
• Marie Wijnen (56), Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Joseph Théodore BITSCH (3), Burnhaupt-le-Haut, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Joseph Paquin (70), Cap-Santé, Portneuf, Québec, Canada
• Anna Maria Ham (51), Neu Beschenowa
• Anne Marie LEHOUCK (66), Hondschoote (59122) Frankrijk
• Pieter vroegop (62)

• 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)

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

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

• 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 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
• May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
• June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
• September 17 » The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
• December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
• December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.

The temperature on May 19, 1776 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.