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• Anna Catharina Vercruyssen, Temse, Osst-Vlaanderen († 1861)
• Catharina Mechtildis Geilen, Wehr (Gemeinde Selfkant), NRW (D)
• Berend Lammertsen van 't Veld, Ermelo († 1775)
• Aukjen Tjallinge, Ureterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1800)
• Elisabeth Paulusse de Graaf, Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1837)
• Aukjen Tjallings Minkema, Ureterp
• Berend Lammerts van 't Veld (van 't Veldt, van 't Velt, van der Veld, van der Velden), Ermelo, Nederland († 1774)
• Cornelis van Rosmale, Leiden, Hooglandsche kerk
• Antje Heeres Taekema, Oosterlittens, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aukjen Tjallings, Ureterp (Opsterland)

• Catrina Middeldorp (33), Delft
• Amelie Le Francq, Sainghin en Weppes, Nord, France
• David Rutgers van Rozenburg (60), Amsterdam,NL, Nederland
• Corstiaan de Hoog
• Catharina MIDDENDORP (33), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Johann Georg Schwingel (51), Oberlinxweiler b. St. Wendel (Saarland)-Alemanha
• Anne Marie JUIF, Abbenans, 25340, France
• Jan Gerrits Spekschot (1), Beekbergen
• Gerrit Booij, Oostzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van BEEST (8), Rotterdam

• 1720 » Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician († 1760)
• 1750 » Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor († 1825)
• 1754 » François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general and engineer († 1833)
• 1774 » Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician († 1809)
• 1792 » John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1878)
• 1803 » Nathan Clifford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 19th United States Attorney General († 1881)
• 1807 » B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia († 1893)
• 1819 » Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia († 1876)
• 1822 » Isaac P. Rodman, American general and politician († 1862)
• 1830 » Franz Joseph I of Austria († 1916)

• 1648 » Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1615)
• 1683 » Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
• 1707 » William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1640)
• 1712 » Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1660)
• 1765 » Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
• 1815 » Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
• 1823 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)

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. Antje
13. Aaltje
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.
• 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.
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on August 18, 1774 was about 17.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen.