About the day » Tuesday July 26, 1774Calender converter

• Adriaan van Steenbergen, 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1840)
• Anna Catharina van den Burg(h), Amsterdam
• Annetje Dirksd ♀ van der Schinkel, Zandvoort, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1849)
• Annetje Dirks van der Schinkel, Zandvoort,Noord-Holland,Nederland († 1849)
• Geneviève CASSÉ, Nibelle, 45228, Loiret, Centre-Val-de-Loire, France († 1849)
• Anna Elisabeth BIJNEN, Valkenswaard, 4301, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1855)
• Derk Sikkes de Boer, Nieuwe Pekela († 1826)
• Hans Hansen Rost, Franeker († 1805)
• Antje Dircksdr van der Schinkel, Zandvoort († 1849)
• Catharina van der REijden, Leiden

• David Joosten Van BRUINISSE (72), Oude-Tonge
• Cornelia Cornelisdr Tromp (71), geervliet (zuid holland)
• Gerrit Cornelisz. Bellekom (50)
• Catharina Lievens (61), Dessel
• Aleidis Martin (62), Maaseik (Graafschap Loon, Prinsbisdom Luik)
• Albert Bogaerts, Oerle
• Jacob Albert van Wassenaar Warmond (64), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België
• Catherine Taylor (born Pendleton) (74), Granville County, North Carolina, Colonial America
• David Joostz van Bruinisse (72), Oude-Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catrine Margrete Dunkhorst (35), Lavelsloh Hannover Nedersachsen Duitsland

• 1711 » Lorenz Christoph Mizler, German physician, mathematician, and historian († 1778)
• 1739 » George Clinton, American general and politician, 4th Vice President of the United States († 1812)
• 1782 » John Field, Irish pianist and composer († 1837)
• 1791 » Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1844)
• 1796 » George Catlin, American painter, author, and traveler († 1872)
• 1802 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 42nd President of Mexico († 1855)
• 1819 » Justin Holland, American guitarist and educator († 1887)
• 1829 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate († 1912)
• 1841 » Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian journalist and politician († 1882)
• 1842 » Alfred Marshall, English economist and academic († 1924)

• 1659 » Mary Frith, English female criminal (b. 1584)
• 1680 » John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet and courtier (b. 1647)
• 1684 » Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1646)
• 1693 » Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, queen of Sweden (b. 1656)
• 1712 » Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1631)
• 1723 » Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1660)
• 1801 » Maximilian Francis, archduke of Austria (b. 1756)
• 1863 » Sam Houston, American general and politician, 7th Governor of Texas (b. 1793)
• 1867 » Otto, king of Greece (b. 1815)
• 1899 » Ulises Heureaux, 22nd, 26th, and 27th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1845)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Aaltje
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)
• March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
• June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
• July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
• August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
• September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
• September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.

The temperature on July 26, 1774 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw.