About the day » Monday August 1, 1774Calender converter

• Arie Cornelis Den Oudsten
• Anna Maria Bems
• Aaltje, Gorredijk
• Bernardus Heutinck
• Barbara Houthuys, Vilvoorde
• Alexander Kirkpatrick?, Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland († 1791)
• Andreas Rombaut, Temse († 1850)
• Aaltje Gorter, Gorredijk († 1850)
• André Joseph CROMBOIS, Quévy-le-Petit,7040,Hainaut,Wallonie,BELGIQUE († 1846)
• Christoffel Engel Kramer († 1827)

• Adam Jacobsz van Toorn (70), Vlaardingen
• Hans Heinrich MOSER (72)
• Amelia Verbaas (4), Oud-Beijerland
• Jan Jansz Krijger (51), Pernis
• Jan Arijsz Krijger (79)
• Jannigje Willemsd van Wijen (0), Alblasserdam, zh.nld
• Jan Arijens Krijger (79), Pernis,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Arijens KRIJGER (79), Pernis, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elsje Jans de Waal, Eemnes-Buiten

• 1738 » Jacques François Dugommier, French general († 1794)
• 1744 » Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic († 1829)
• 1770 » William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory († 1838)
• 1779 » Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet († 1843)
• 1779 » Lorenz Oken, German-Swiss botanist, biologist, and ornithologist († 1851)
• 1809 » William B. Travis, American colonel and lawyer († 1836)
• 1815 » Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician († 1882)
• 1818 » Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic († 1889)
• 1819 » Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet († 1891)
• 1831 » Antonio Cotogni, Italian opera singer and educator († 1918)

• 1714 » Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
• 1787 » Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1696)
• 1795 » Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
• 1796 » Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English colonel and politician (b. 1720)
• 1798 » François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (b. 1753)
• 1807 » John Boorman, English cricketer (b. c. 1754)
• 1807 » John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732)
• 1808 » Lady Diana Beauclerk, English painter and illustrator (b. 1734)
• 1812 » Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
• 1851 » William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (b. 1775)

• 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.
• September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
• September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on August 1, 1774 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: geheel betrokken.