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• Aaltje Egberts, Nieuwe Pekela
• Brugt Wiegers Stobbe († 1826)
• Dorst, 's-Gravendeel, Binnenmaas, South Holland, The Netherlands († 1863)
• Akke Pieters (Koolstra), Oudkerk († 1837)
• Aaltje Jansma, Noordwolde († 1811)
• Alida Gertrudis Beijerink, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1820)
• Betty Lyon, Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Annigje BAAT
• Brugt Wygers (Wiegers) Stobbe, Lippenhuizen, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1826)
• Brucht Wygers Stobbe, Lippenhuizen († 1826)

• Sijmon Verdegaal (66), Noordwijkerhout
• Hendrik XXXVII Reuss van Köstritz (27), Berlijn
• Gerhardus dur Leu, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Gerben Andries (84)
• Gerrit Sanders van Dijk (86), Meeden
• Geertie van Dijk (86), Meeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria De Keijsere (35), Torhout West-Vlaanderen België
• Gerrit van der Meij (0), Rijnsburg
• Heinrich XXXVII of Reuss (27)
• Huijg Jansz Boot (72)

• 1729 » Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer († 1811)
• 1755 » Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War († 1813)
• 1780 » Piet Retief, South African ruler († 1838)
• 1793 » Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist († 1831)
• 1795 » Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist († 1856)
• 1815 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist († 1902)
• 1817 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith († 1892)
• 1833 » Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist († 1887)
• 1840 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker († 1917)
• 1842 » John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)

• 1667 » Hans Nansen, Danish politician (b. 1598)
• 1671 » Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (b. 1612)
• 1742 » Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1793 » Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
• 1793 » Lord George Gordon, English politician (b. 1751)
• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)

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.
• March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
• 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.

The temperature on November 12, 1774 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: hagel regen.