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• Cornelius Beijersberge(n), Wassenaar († 1861)
• Engelbertus Bartholomeus Willems, Kaaskerke West-Vlaanderen België
• Cornelius Jacobsz. Beijersbergen, Wassenaar, ZH, Nederland († 1861)
• Anna Catharina Joris, Mielen-boven-Aalst, België († 1804)
• Geertruit Bartels van der Kolk, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1857)
• Gerardus Arnoldi van Haaren, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Van der Helst, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België († 1836)
• Cornelis van der Werf, Bodegraven († 1855)
• Antonia Ansems, Dongen
• Eimert Klop, Haaften

• Cors Bastiaanszn den Broeder (37), Westmaas, 3723, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Ermpje Nederstigt (30), Leimuiden, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles King (61), Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
• Richard Smith (68), Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• Ermpje Nedersticht, Rijnsaterswoude
• Pierre Joseph VOITURON (51), Saint-Symphorien, 53071, Hainaut, Belgique
• Anna Jan Francen, Zeeland
• Francois Ignace Michel BAILLY de MESSEIN (1), Varennes, Lajemmerais, Quebec, Canada
• Klaas Schoorl (48)
• Hendricus Ebing (0), Amersfoort

• 1718 » Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher († 1799)
• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)
• 1827 » Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum († 1921)

• 1669 » Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (b. 1596)
• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (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.
• 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.
• September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on May 16, 1774 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: hagel regen bui.