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• Fenje Goeitjens, Breede (bij Warffum)
• Anne Elisabeth CORMAN, BAELEN-sur-VESDRE, Liège, Belgique († 1826)
• Henrica Esman, Didam
• Bessel Hendriksen, Harderwijk († 1834)
• Arie Scheepen, Maassluis, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Klein, Wunderthausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Barend de Groot, Amersfoort
• Catharina DONKERS, Woensel, Eindhoven, 3547, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1811)
• Geertrui (Geertruij Gertrudis Gertruit) A(a)rts, Ewijk († 1818)
• François-de-Paule de Hartig († 1797)

• Anna Sophia Scheffer (0), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Maria Catherine Kuhn (27), Berks, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Joannes van der Horst, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Maria Eva Kuhen (34), Berks, Pennsylvania, United States
• Josephte Bleau (0), Quebec, Canada
• Elisabeth Rechsteiner (73), Speicher, Switzerland
• Anna Sophia Scheffer (0), Zwolle
• Joseph Seabury (77), Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, United States of America
• Ruth Haynes (63), Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts
• Casparus Burmannus (59), Kamerijk

• 1679 » Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal († 1758)
• 1760 » Pope Leo XII († 1829)
• 1764 » Charles Percier, French architect and interior designer († 1838)
• 1771 » Henry Maudslay, English engineer († 1831)
• 1773 » Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer († 1858)
• 1778 » James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy († 1860)
• 1788 » Thomas Tredgold, English engineer and author († 1829)
• 1800 » Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar († 1865)
• 1800 » William S. Harney, American general († 1889)
• 1827 » Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician († 1906)

• 1681 » Philippe Delano, Dutch Plymouth Colony settler (b. 1602)
• 1701 » John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1628)
• 1711 » Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (b. 1644)
• 1752 » William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667)
• 1773 » George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1709)
• 1793 » Louis de Noailles, French general (b. 1713)
• 1797 » Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
• 1806 » Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (b. 1732)
• 1818 » Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Catharina
6. Elisabeth
7. Cornelia
8. Joanna
9. Grietje
10. Trijntje
11. Neeltje
12. Aaltje
13. Antje
14. Elizabeth
15. Adriana
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)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 25 » Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
• April 2 » Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
• April 15 » Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
• July 9 » The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.
• August 10 » Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
• September 8 » French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.

The temperature on August 22, 1755 was about 18.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen.