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• Françoise Perrine Anne Julienne BLANCHARD, Saint-Pierre-De-Plesguen,35720,Ille-Et-Vilaine,Bretagne,FRANCE († 1838)
• Arnoldus van Laar, Ingen / Lienden († 1837)
• Bouwe Lases, Gorredijk, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1778)
• Versmissen Joannes Petrus, Wortel, Antwerpen, België († 1826)
• Adriaani Jacobus NUYTKENS, Leest, Antwerpen, BELGIE († 1849)
• Bouwe Lazes van der Zee, Gorredijk, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1774)
• Catharina de Vos, Steenhuyse
• Adrianus Fonteyn, Denderhoutem († 1809)
• Egidius GRIETENS, Ottenburg, 1841, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Anna Maria Taekles, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland

• Maria Daelmans, Jabeek,, Limburg, Nederland
• Brant Daniels (41), Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Maria Anna Theresia Inghelbrecht (0), Ettelgem
• Maria Job Daendels van de VEN (72), Someren,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Maria (Anna) Catharina ,Catharina Josepha Poumé, Pommais, Pomeij, Wittem, Nederland
• Joannes Moonen (85), Reusel
• Annigjen Karstes (63), Eastersee
• Johannes (Jan) Joannes Houben (80), GEELEN (LIMBURG NL)
• Joannes (Jan) Houben (80), Geleen, Nederland
• Geertje te Kulve (36), Winterswijk

• 1702 » Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau († 1769)
• 1703 » Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1775)
• 1740 » Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general († 1817)
• 1754 » Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. († 1825)
• 1788 » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic († 1853)
• 1815 » Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet and historian († 1894)
• 1820 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer († 1893)
• 1828 » Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general († 1895)
• 1834 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty († 1904)
• 1835 » Elisha Gray, American businessman, co-founded Western Electric († 1901)

• 1696 » Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (b. 1630)
• 1769 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1689)
• 1788 » Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1799 » Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)
• 1815 » Guillaume Brune, French general and politician (b. 1763)
• 1823 » Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)
• 1834 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (b. 1793)
• 1849 » Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ottoman Albanian commander (b. 1769)
• 1854 » Heinrich Clauren, German author (b. 1771)
• 1859 » Horace Mann, American educator and politician (b. 1796)

• 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)
• May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
• June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
• September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
• October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on August 2, 1774 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw.