About the day » Sunday January 23, 1774Calender converter

• Pieter Zijlmans, Raamsdonkveer
• Aaltje Scholten, Heerde, Nederland
• "Grietje" Jansdr Krul, Den Helder († 1856)
• Abraham Jansz Cambier, Leiden († 1832)
• Abraham Soetens, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1843)
• Alice Bates, Windham, Connecticut, United States
• Abraham van den Busken († 1824)
• "François" Henri Ghislain de Kerchove, Gand, Belgique († 1847)
• Aaltje Scholten, Heerde, Gld. Nederland
• Abraham Kanbier, Leiden, ZH (Hooglandse Kerk) († 1832)

• Katharina Noll (88), Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Johann Bernhard Büter (40), Dohren
• Joannes Baptista Baptist Baptiste De Schacht (71), Jabbeke, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Derk Jakobs (9), Veendam
• Anna Catharina Willemsen (0), Berendrecht, Bisdom Antwerpen
• Hendrina Martens (64), Oer, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Cornelisz de Waal (9), Klaaswaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Cornelisz De WAAL (9)
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• Michaël Peteghem van, Waterland Oudeman, België

• 1737 » John Hancock, American general and politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts († 1793)
• 1745 » William Jessop, English engineer, built the Cromford Canal († 1814)
• 1752 » Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1832)
• 1780 » Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek general († 1827)
• 1783 » Stendhal, French novelist († 1842)
• 1786 » Auguste de Montferrand, French-Russian architect, designed Saint Isaac's Cathedral and Alexander Column († 1858)
• 1799 » Alois Negrelli, Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire († 1858)
• 1809 » Surendra Sai, Indian activist († 1884)
• 1813 » Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist and activist († 1895)
• 1828 » Saigō Takamori, Japanese samurai († 1877)

• 1744 » Giambattista Vico, Italian historian and philosopher (b. 1668)
• 1785 » Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician and academic (b. 1717)
• 1789 » Frances Brooke, English author and playwright (b. 1724)
• 1789 » John Cleland, English author (b. 1709)
• 1800 » Edward Rutledge, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1749)
• 1803 » Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer, founded Guinness (b. 1725)
• 1805 » Claude Chappe, French engineer (b. 1763)
• 1806 » William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
• 1810 » Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1812 » Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (b. 1764)

• 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 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• 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 January 23, 1774 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.