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• Aaltje Gerrits Wemekamp, Den Ham,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antoon van Maasdeijck, Herpen († 1833)
• Adriana Maria van Diesen, Gilze, Gilze en Rijen, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1854)
• Agatha Caenen, Veldwezelt, Lanaken (B) († 1800)
• Aaltje Luup, Andijk, Nederland († 1847)
• Antonius Maasdijk van, Herpen, Nederland († 1833)
• Cornelius Mennes, Nieuw Beerta (NL) († 1817)
• (Johanna, Joanna) (Margarete, Margarita, Margaretha) Collin Cullin Collen Colin, Mook († 1870)
• Anje Folkerts, Meeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Augustinus Houben, Stein,, Limburg, Nederland

• Harmanus Schmaal (45), Groningen
• Elisabeth Pijpers (39), Swolgen
• Maria Dirksdr Valstar (1), Naaldwijk
• marguerite MORANDEAU (5), st.denis d'oléron(17)
• Iefjen Klaas Kous, Aalsmeer
• Marguerite BARA (89), Floreffe, 5150, Namur, Belgique
• Maria Valstar (0), Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Engelbertus van de Loe (83), Kessel aan de Niers (D)
• Margareta Christina Jansonius (69), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Jacques Porcq (80), Neuve Chapelle, 62840, France

• 1718 » Paul Rabaut, French pastor († 1794)
• 1737 » Thomas Paine, prominent for publishing Common Sense (1776), which established him as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States († 1809)
• 1749 » Christian VII of Denmark († 1808)
• 1754 » Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio († 1806)
• 1756 » Henry Lee III, American general and politician, 9th Governor of Virginia († 1818)
• 1761 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1849)
• 1782 » Daniel Auber, French composer († 1871)
• 1801 » Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor († 1857)
• 1810 » Ernst Kummer, Polish-German mathematician and academic († 1893)
• 1810 » Mary Whitwell Hale, American teacher, school founder, and hymnwriter († 1862)

• 1678 » Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese missionary and author (b. 1593)
• 1706 » Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
• 1737 » George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish-English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1666)
• 1743 » André-Hercule de Fleury, French cardinal (b. 1653)
• 1763 » Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
• 1820 » George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
• 1829 » István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovenian priest and poet (b. 1760)
• 1829 » Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, French captain and politician (b. 1755)
• 1870 » Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
• 1871 » Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786)

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. 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)
• January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
• June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• 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.
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on January 29, 1774 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.