About the day » Sunday September 22, 1776Calender converter

• Angenitha Cantzelaar, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1859)
• Adriana Arijs Brandwijk, Bleskensgraaf, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1812)
• Abraham Stols, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1831)
• Adrianus Janus van der Schaft, Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1860)
• Adriana Teunissen, Herveld
• Aaltjen Kaptein, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands († 1843)
• Adriana Goijaert van Gorp, Tilburg († 1819)
• Anna Adelheid Üpping-Borchers, Borken († 1840)
• Aaltje Jans CAPITEIJN, Hoogeveen († 1843)
• Adriana van Gorp, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1819)

• Henrica Hendrina Jansse Janssen (56), Gemert, Nederland
• Helena Elisabeth van Nijeveen (81), Groningen
• Jan Cornelisz Kooger (72), Den Burg (Texel, NH)
• Harm Willemsz (Naarding), Een, Drenthe, Nederland
• Jean Francois Baptiste Dumas (56), St-Ours, Quebec, Canada
• Joseph GUIDEZ (47), Iwuy,59141,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Govert van SLINGELANDT (84), Dordrecht
• Helena Elisabeth van Nijeveen (81), Groningen
• Joanna de Maesschalck (56), Zele
• Gillis Klerk de (31), Oud en nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1741 » Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist († 1811)
• 1743 » Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author († 1819)
• 1762 » Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author († 1850)
• 1765 » Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher († 1822)
• 1788 » Theodore Hook, English composer and educator († 1841)
• 1791 » Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist († 1867)
• 1819 » Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian and academic († 1897)
• 1829 » Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor († 1883)
• 1833 » Stephen D. Lee, American general and academic († 1908)
• 1835 » Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher († 1891)

• 1692 » Martha Corey, American woman accused of witchcraft (b. 1620)
• 1703 » Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622)
• 1756 » Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (b. 1688)
• 1774 » Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
• 1776 » Nathan Hale, American soldier (b. 1755)
• 1777 » John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (b. 1699)
• 1828 » Shaka Zulu, Zulu chieftain and monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (b. 1787)
• 1852 » William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed Hammersmith Bridge (b. 1783)
• 1872 » Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (b. 1801)
• 1873 » Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1801)

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)
• April 7 » Captain John Barry and the USSLexington captures the Edward.
• April 12 » American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
• June 15 » Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
• September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
• 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 September 22, 1776 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.