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• Aaltje Hendriks van der Does, Katwijk aan den Rijn († 1781)
• Aaltien Lambers, Gasselte († 1811)
• Aaltje Hindriks Kostwinder, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland († 1822)
• Achatius Eickens gen Runde, Steinbild, Kluse
• Aaltje Luup, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Rotteveel, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1811)
• Abraham Levie Montezinos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands († 1841)
• Adriaantje Arijsdr de Vlaming (de Vlaam,Vlaamen), Numansdorp, Nederland († 1831)
• Aaltje Derks, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Kranenburg, Stad aan 't Haringvliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Jacob Willemsz Venker (0), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jacob Venker (0), Alkmaar
• Henricus LARDENOIS, Ans, 62003, Liège, Belgique, Ans/glain
• Anna Catharina NN (75), Heinrichsgrün
• Hendrik Lamberts Oldenkamp - Boersbroek (46), Vorden
• Christof Henrich, gen. Cordt Schriefer Grannemann (57), Nordhemmern, Minden-Lubbecke, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Derk van den Berg
• Henderik Lamberts Oldenkamp op Boersbroek (46), Vorden
• Amelberga Schoonbroeckx (37), Pulderbos
• Jan Geurtsen, Emiclaar, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1703 » François Bigot, French politician († 1778)
• 1720 » Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and archaeologist († 1778)
• 1754 » John Lansing, Jr., American lawyer and politician († 1829)
• 1775 » Walter Savage Landor, English poet and author († 1864)
• 1781 » Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet († 1838)
• 1816 » Nathaniel P. Banks, American general and politician, 24th Governor of Massachusetts († 1894)
• 1822 » Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and curator († 1899)
• 1841 » Félix Faure, French politician, 7th President of France († 1899)
• 1844 » Richard Theodore Greener, American lawyer, academic, and diplomat († 1922)
• 1846 » Angela of the Cross, Spanish nun and saint († 1932)

• 1664 » Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor (b. 1599)
• 1730 » Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
• 1770 » Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (b. 1712)
• 1836 » Betsy Ross, American seamstress, said to have designed the American Flag (b. 1752)
• 1838 » Osceola, American tribal leader (b. 1804)
• 1858 » Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (b. 1778)
• 1867 » Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
• 1869 » William Carleton, Irish author (b. 1794)
• 1881 » Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (b. 1844)
• 1889 » Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary (b. 1858)

• 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 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• 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.
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on January 30, 1774 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: hagel omtrent helder.