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• Adrianus Cornelisz De KREEK, 's-Gravendeel
• Bondina Wijsma, Leeuwarden († 1860)
• Anna Joseph Cohen, Klundert († 1858)
• Anna Maria Engels, As († 1845)
• Dirk KROOT, Loon op Zand,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1861)
• Anje Harms Nanninga, Meeden, Groningen, Nederland († 1870)
• Bondina Hanses Wijsma, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis de Kreek, 's-Gravendeel († 1848)
• Cornelia Brouwer, Soest
• Alida (Aaltje) Engelberts Hoornenburg, Zeist († 1857)

• Anna Maria Jacoba ALEXANDER (49), Roesbrugge-Haringe,8972,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Albert Jaspers van Dolderen (75), Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth VAN ECHELPOEL (71), Vorselaar,2290,Antwerpen,Vlaanderen,BELGIË
• Catrina Elinga (35), Alkmaar
• Dirk Broekhoven (5), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf Heinrich Vodegel (76), Neuenkirchen Hannover (D)
• Hendrik Huussen (33), Delft
• Cornelis Pieterszn. van Buijsen (51), Pijnacker
• Anna van Hessen-Philipstal-Barchfeld (49), Huize Annenhof, Lemgo, Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Aalbert van Dolderen, Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1746 » George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral and politician († 1823)
• 1768 » Joseph Bonaparte, Italian king († 1844)
• 1797 » Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) († 1849)
• 1800 » Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States († 1874)
• 1814 » Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (d.1837)
• 1815 » Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (d.1882)
• 1827 » Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time († 1915)
• 1830 » Albert Bierstadt, American painter († 1902)
• 1831 » Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union († 1897)
• 1832 » James Munro, Scottish-Australian publisher and politician, 15th Premier of Victoria († 1908)

• 1700 » Raffaello Fabretti, Italian scholar and author (b. 1618)
• 1715 » François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (b. 1651)
• 1758 » Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1686)
• 1767 » Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (b. 1703)
• 1770 » Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (b. 1695)
• 1812 » Joseph Dennie, American journalist and author (b. 1768)
• 1830 » John Thomas Campbell, Irish-Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
• 1830 » Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (b. 1769)
• 1858 » Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1800)
• 1864 » Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)

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

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

• 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)
• January 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
• January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
• January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
• November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.

The temperature on January 7, 1785 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.