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• Dammes de JONG, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel († 1848)
• Adrianus Janssens, Loenhout (B) († 1860)
• Anna Regina Schoor, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1842)
• Anna Catharina Lamb, Rhaunen, Rheinland Pfalz, Duitsland († 1831)
• albert FLAMME, Stambruges (Belgium) Hainaut
• Anna Gesina Rüsken, Danckeren, Dankern, Haren († 1848)
• augustin françois GEVA, Neufmaison (Belgium) Hainaut
• Albertus Vlootscholten, Rossum, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Adrianus Janssens, Loenhout
• Arent Pieters Pool, Boskoop († 1844)

• Catrijna van Beek (46), Rotterdam
• Christine Charlotte von Griesheim (64), Eisenach, Allemagne
• Abraham Boel (75), Temse, België
• Christine Charlotte van Griesheim (64), Eisenach, Thüringen
• Catharina Lamers (23), Beesel, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Düving (71), Stadtlohn, Borken, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Abraham Boel (75), Temse
• Cornelis ten Holt (53), Ouderkerk aan den IJssel
• Anna Margreth Sticht\Stichts (45), Springfield Township, Phila Co
• Beertje Hofland (82), Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1745 » Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon († 1799)
• 1766 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, first dictator of Paraguay († 1840)
• 1785 » Andreas Moustoxydis, Greek historian and philologist († 1860)
• 1793 » James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War († 1862)
• 1795 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic († 1871)
• 1799 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author († 1831)
• 1803 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer († 1888)
• 1807 » Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist († 1891)
• 1808 » Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American conchologist and paleontologist († 1864)
• 1811 » Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician († 1874)

• 1693 » Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (b. 1642)
• 1711 » Philips van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
• 1718 » Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1725 » Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1653)
• 1731 » Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)
• 1734 » John Dennis, English playwright and critic (b. 1657)
• 1813 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
• 1829 » Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)
• 1831 » Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1840 » Frances Burney, English author and playwright (b. 1752)

• 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 1 » The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, were issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.
• June 9 » The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
• June 12 » French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Māori in New Zealand.
• August 19 » Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
• August 21 » King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
• September 1 » The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.

The temperature on January 6, 1772 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: donker mottig.