About the day » Thursday January 2, 1755Calender converter

• Cornelia Lambrechts, Meer, Provincie Antwerpen († 1755)
• Dorothea Manders, Bakel en Milheeze († 1823)
• Bernardus Henricus Saalmann (Zaleman) († 1793)
• Apolonia Pierot, Leiden († 1826)
• Anne Marie Vanstraelen, Zepperen, België († 1826)
• Dirk Arysse de Haas, Burgh († 1829)
• Catharina Josepha DESNYDER, Kortemark, Belgique († 1842)
• Benoit PASSEMART, Berbezit,43160,Haute-Loire,Auvergne,FRANCE
• Asa Moore, Moreland, Philadelphia County, Pensylvania († 1821)
• Abigail CLARK, New Haven County,Connecticut († 1854)

• Gerrit Leendertsz Boer (80), Bleskensgraaf, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, impost
• Anne WAXIN (36), Quiévy,59485,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• gerrit aertsz SCHILDER (53), vlaardingen
• Bastiaen Willems Breedveld (0), Nieuw-Lekkerland
• Caspar Nintemann, Rhede
• Anna Burgstadts (72), Balen
• Berendeken Sickink (71), Winterswijk
• Gerrit Aartsz (Aertsz) Schilder (53), Vlaardingen, Nederland
• Anna BORCHSTAET (72), Balen (Antwerpen), België
• Caspar Jacobs Nintemann (54), Rhede, Niedersachsen, Germany

• 1699 » Osman III, Ottoman sultan († 1757)
• 1713 » Marie Dumesnil, French actress († 1803)
• 1727 » James Wolfe, English general († 1759)
• 1732 » František Brixi, Czech organist and composer († 1771)
• 1777 » Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator († 1857)
• 1803 » Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic († 1869)
• 1822 » Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician († 1888)
• 1827 » Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician († 1914)
• 1833 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician († 1893)
• 1836 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author († 1917)

• 1613 » Salima Sultan Begum, Empress of the Mughal Empire (b. 1539)
• 1614 » Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish mystical poet and Catholic martyr (b. 1566)
• 1726 » Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and composer (b. 1688)
• 1763 » John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
• 1850 » Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (b. 1789)
• 1861 » Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Pieter
4. Cornelis
5. Hendrik
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. Adriana
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)
• Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• 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.
• June 16 » French and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
• July 25 » British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.
• 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 January 2, 1755 was about -3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: geheel betrokken.