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• Cornelis van 't HOF, Brouwershaven
• Arie Teunisz van Wijgerden, brakel (gelderland) († 1831)
• Christianus Kenens, Overpelt, 3900 (B)
• Anna Maria Meeracker, Sint Oedenrode
• Antonius Vermeiren, Bornem, 2880, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1818)
• Christina Vaessen, Bree († 1774)
• Arie Theunissse van Wijgerden, Brakel († 1831)
• Anna Diderika van Heeckeren van Brandsenburg, Breda, Nederland († 1861)
• Adriana Dorothea van Ommeren, Ravenstein
• Arie Teuniisse WIJGERDEN, van, Brakel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1831)

• Korstiaan Cornelis van der Sluijs (83), Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Joannes Panis (68), Kwerps, 3071, België
• Anna Francisca De Wachter (0), Puurs, 2870, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Jilles Verdonk (64), Rotterdam
• Johanna van Dongen (65), Standdaarbuiten
• Christianus Plessers (56), Bilzen
• Egidius de MEYER (1), Boom, Antwerpen, België
• Joannes HAELTERMAN (65), Laarne,9270,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Cornelis van Wijchen (65), Bunnik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Elisabeth VERGOTE (81), Ingelmunster, 36007, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique

• 1714 » Hedvig Taube, Swedish courtier († 1744)
• 1724 » Christopher Anstey, English author and poet († 1805)
• 1729 » Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta, Spanish cleric, Archbishop of Mexico, Viceroy of New Spain († 1800)
• 1737 » James Lovell, American educator and politician († 1789)
• 1760 » Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker († 1849)
• 1795 » John Keats, English poet († 1821)
• 1815 » Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic († 1897)
• 1815 » Thomas Chapman, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Tasmania († 1884)
• 1825 » Charles Lavigerie, French-Algerian cardinal and academic († 1892)
• 1831 » Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist († 1910)

• 1723 » Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
• 1732 » Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1666)
• 1733 » Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
• 1744 » Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
• 1768 » Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1690)
• 1806 » Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist and printmaker (b. ca. 1753)
• 1860 » Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1788)
• 1879 » Jacob Abbott, American author and academic (b. 1803)
• 1879 » Joseph Hooker, American general (b. 1814)

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)
• 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.
• September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
• September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
• October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".

The temperature on October 31, 1774 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: betrokken.