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• Anthonij VOLGRAAF, Dordrecht
• Arij Benjaminsz BEENHAKKER, Strijen
• Aleida Klumperink, Harreveld en Zieuwent († 1831)
• Anna Maria Lenssen, Heppeneert-Maaseik, Limburg, België
• Anna Gertrudis Bemelmans, Gulpen (Gulpen-Wittem), Limburg, Nederland († 1774)
• Adrien Vancalster, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem-Vlaams Brabant
• Abraham de Wit, Velsen († 1847)
• Anna Maria D'hauwer, Opwijk, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
• Adriana Petrus Joannis Goorts, Deurne
• Beatrix Cornelis de Boer, Uithuizermeeden

• Anna Elisabetha MÖHLIN (36), Broad Bay (Now Waldoboro), Lincoln, Maine, Verenigde Staten
• Aartje Berends (42), Apeldoorn
• Anne CLAR (61), Br√©chaumont (68210, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Adriana van Mourik (62), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Dorothea FRANZ (72), Völklingen, RV Saarbrücken, Saarland, Deutschland
• Aardje Berends (24), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Eva Frantz (83), Völklingen, Saarbrucken, Saarland, Germany
• Aardje Berends (24), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Dirk Teunisz van Veen (68), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Teunisz van Veen (68), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1756 » Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter and educator († 1823)
• 1760 » Hugh Ronalds, British nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples († 1833)
• 1760 » William Payne, English painter († 1830)
• 1769 » Muhammad Ali, Ottoman military leader and pasha († 1849)
• 1770 » Joseph Jacotot, French philosopher and academic († 1840)
• 1778 » Robert Emmet, Irish commander († 1803)
• 1781 » Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist († 1869)
• 1782 » Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss philosopher, author, and academic († 1830)
• 1792 » Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher († 1886)
• 1793 » Karl Lachmann, German philologist and critic († 1851)

• 1710 » Louis III, duke of Bourbon (b. 1668)
• 1733 » Claude de Forbin, French admiral and politician (b. 1656)
• 1744 » John Anstis, English historian and politician (b. 1669)
• 1762 » Johannes Zick, German painter (b. 1702)
• 1793 » Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (b. 1725)
• 1795 » John Collins, American politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1717)
• 1805 » Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
• 1807 » Abraham Baldwin, American minister, lawyer, and politician (b. 1754)
• 1811 » Mariano Moreno, Argentinian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1778)
• 1832 » Jean-François Champollion, French philologist and scholar (b. 1790)

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)
• 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.
• 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.
• September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
• September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.

The temperature on March 4, 1774 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: betrokken geheel betrokken.