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• Adriaan Dirksz Klopper, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1864)
• Anna Catharina Dautzenberg, Schaesberg (Gem. Landgraaf)
• Adriana VERMEER, Moordrecht († 1775)
• Adriana Maria van STAMDONCK, Rotterdam, Groote Kerk
• Angenieta van Rumpt, nieuwaal (gelderland) († 1824)
• Adriana Overbeke, Sint-Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Overbeeke, Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1811)
• Adriana PEIJNENBORG, Hilvarenbeek,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1862)
• Anna Catharina Dautzenberg, Schaesberg, Landgraaf († 1815)
• Musenberg, Oesede, Georgsmarienhütte, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

• Maria Magdalena WOLFF ????* (38), Mouterhouse, Moselle, Lorraine, France
• Jenneke Laurens van Kessel (55), Boekel
• Louis marquis de Mailly (51), Paris
• Cornelia van Oeveren (57), Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus van de Ven (50), Dordrecht
• Johanna Maria Brouwer (2), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Engel van der Kaa (4), Dordrecht
• Joseph Mooney (52), Wrightsboro, Columbia, Georgia, United States
• Petronella BESOUW (38), Broekhuizen, Limburg, Nederland
• Ann Stubbs (47), Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• 1718 » Elizabeth Montagu, English author and critic († 1800)
• 1727 » Ignaz Schiffermüller, Austrian entomologist and academic († 1806)
• 1768 » William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English general and politician († 1854)
• 1798 » Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831–49) († 1849)
• 1800 » Nat Turner, American slave and uprising leader († 1831)
• 1815 » James Agnew, Northern Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Tasmania († 1901)
• 1821 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general († 1908)
• 1824 » Henry C. Lord, American businessman († 1884)
• 1828 » Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France († 1896)
• 1832 » Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist and academic († 1917)

• 1709 » Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1639)
• 1724 » François-Timoléon de Choisy, French historian and author (b. 1644)
• 1746 » Josiah Burchett, English admiral and politician (b. 1666)
• 1764 » William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
• 1775 » Fukuda Chiyo-ni, Japanese nun and poet (b. 1703)
• 1780 » John André, English soldier (b. 1750)
• 1782 » Charles Lee, English-born American general (b. 1732)
• 1786 » Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (b. 1725)
• 1803 » Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)
• 1804 » Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725)

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 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.
• September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
• October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on October 2, 1774 was about 13.0 °C. There was 220 mm of rainWind direction mainly north. Weather type: regen.