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• Bastiaan den Hengst, Amsterdam († 1829)
• Catharina Hattingh, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa († 1859)
• Anna Elisabeth Raeymaekers, Westmeerbeek, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 1774)
• Annigjen Gerrits Knobbe, Schutsloot, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1845)
• cornelia maartensdr van LUIJK, vlaardingen († 1850)
• Agnes [Franciscus] Kets, Zeelst († 1830)
• Arend Groeneboer, Meppel († 1831)
• Alida Niehoff, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Joanna Elisabeth Verbeeck(Van Beeck), Weelde
• Bavo Ivens (Yvens), Graauwsenhoek (de)

• Annetje Abrahams Klaver (79), Amsterdam
• Anne Marie Arnaud (45), ( Coine ) Uvenet-Fours
• Elisabeth Menn (0), Erndtebrück, Kreis Wittgenstein
• arent groeneboer (3)
• Cornelis van Laer (68), Zeist,Gemeente Zeist,Utrecht,Netherlands,Evangelische Broedergemeente
• Cornelis de Jonge (74), Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aartje Jansdr. (Aaltje) de Heij (52), Berkel en Rodenrijs, ZH, Nederland
• Anna LEURAERS (64), Rijkel, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Gesina Gesken (59), Börger
• Anthonie Michael Pac (52)

• 1740 » Nicholas Pocock, English naval painter (d.1821)
• 1760 » Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician († 1794)
• 1769 » DeWitt Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of New York († 1828)
• 1770 » Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French general († 1826)
• 1779 » Joel Roberts Poinsett, American physician and politician, 15th United States Secretary of War († 1851)
• 1793 » Sam Houston, American soldier and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas († 1863)
• 1800 » Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian-Italian poet and philosopher († 1844)
• 1810 » Pope Leo XIII († 1903)
• 1816 » Alexander Bullock, American lawyer and politician, 26th Governor of Massachusetts († 1882)
• 1817 » János Arany, Hungarian journalist and poet († 1882)

• 1729 » Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662)
• 1755 » Louis de Rouvroy, French duke and diplomat (b. 1675)
• 1791 » John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (b. 1703)
• 1793 » Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-Danish painter and academic (b. 1711)
• 1797 » Horace Walpole, English historian and politician (b. 1717)
• 1829 » Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, Mexican revolutionary (b. ca. 1773)
• 1830 » Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (b. 1755)
• 1835 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
• 1855 » Nicholas I, Russian emperor (b. 1796)

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.
• 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.
• July 21 » Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
• 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 March 2, 1774 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen hagel omtrent helder.