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• Anna Justina Booij, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Anna Catharina de Volder, Kasterlee (B)
• Aaltje de Drijver, Werkhoven, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aalbert Van Stuivenberg, Arnhem, Nederland
• Anna Maria Veronica Linnemann, Esterwegen, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Antje van 't Hart, Alkemade († 1821)
• Arie van Peet, Oudewater († 1819)
• Adriana Goedhart, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1831)
• Anna Maria Alaerts, Herenthout, België
• Aaltjen Gerrits, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland († 1838)

• Joannes Frosch (87)
• Jantie Schots (78), Den Helder
• Grietjen DERKSEN (69), Dodewaard
• Berent Berendsen Hissink (71), Vorden
• Marcus Petrie (66), Herkimer, Herkimer, New York, United States
• Grietjen Derrikse (69), Dodewaard, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Leonardus de Wit (0), Bladel
• Janna Willems Puis (64)
• Berend Berendsen Hissink (71), Vorden, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Johannes DEISS (79), Rothbach,67340,Bas-Rhin,Alsace,FRANCE

• 1747 » Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor († 1792)
• 1749 » Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French pianist and composer († 1794)
• 1764 » Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician († 1812)
• 1800 » Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher († 1864)
• 1813 » Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author († 1855)
• 1818 » Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist († 1883)
• 1826 » Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III († 1920)
• 1830 » John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company († 1906)
• 1832 » Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian († 1918)
• 1833 » Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic († 1905)

• 1700 » Angelo Italia, Italian architect (b. 1628)
• 1705 » Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
• 1760 » Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (b. 1720)
• 1766 » Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
• 1808 » Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757)
• 1821 » Napoleon, French general and emperor (b. 1769)
• 1827 » Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
• 1833 » Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (b. 1777)
• 1855 » Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786)
• 1859 » Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b. 1805)

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)
• May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• June 7 » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
• June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
• July 12 » Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
• September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
• November 29 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.

The temperature on May 5, 1776 was about 8.0 °C. There was 88 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.