About the day » Sunday July 7, 1776Calender converter

• Andries Evers, Doesburg
• Adriana Jans Versluijs, Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Anna Maria Lensen, Heppeneert († 1839)
• Aaltje Leurink, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1849)
• AALBERT PLUGGE, SCHEVENINGEN († 1832)
• Alberdina Albertusdr de Reus, Dordrecht († 1833)
• Adriana Versluijs, Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Aaltjen Leurink, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Hokke, Geervliet
• Anna Harnish

• Janna Berendina Te Kronnie (1)
• Hannah Irish (57), Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
• Anna Catharina Degener (60), Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Henricus Koetermans
• Gerardus Schollaert (43), Denderwindeke, Oost-Vlaanderen, Graafschap Vlaanderen
• Johann Hermann Wilholte, Heede, Dörpen, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Duitsland
• Jan op Wiemelinck Everts (41), Hengelo Gld
• Elisabeth Maes (83), Hombeek, Antw-Kemp, Be
• Johannes Slabbert (55)
• George CLIFFORD (32), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland)

• 1752 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom († 1834)
• 1766 » Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general († 1815)
• 1831 » Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American poet and religious writer († 1914)
• 1833 » Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator († 1898)
• 1843 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1926)
• 1846 » Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian physician and author († 1916)
• 1848 » Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil († 1919)
• 1851 » Charles Albert Tindley, American minister and composer († 1933)
• 1855 » Ludwig Ganghofer, German author and playwright († 1920)
• 1859 » Rettamalai Srinivasan, Indian politician († 1911)

• 1701 » William Stoughton, American judge and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1631)
• 1713 » Henry Compton, English bishop (b. 1632)
• 1718 » Alexei Petrovich, Russian tsar (b. 1690)
• 1730 » Olivier Levasseur, French pirate (b. 1690)
• 1758 » Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (b. 1706)
• 1764 » William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (b. 1683)
• 1776 » Jeremiah Markland, English scholar and academic (b. 1693)
• 1790 » François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher and author (b. 1721)
• 1816 » Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1751)
• 1863 » William Mulready, Irish genre painter (b. 1786)

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. Klaas
15. John
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Joanna
7. Catharina
8. Elisabeth
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 15 » American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
• May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
• June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
• July 2 » American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.
• August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
• November 16 » American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.

The temperature on July 7, 1776 was about 18.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.