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• Eugenius Franciscus Rommelaere, Koekelare († 1832)
• Anna Maria de Keurter(sic), Perk
• Agnes STULENS, Hoeselt,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgi († 1856)
• Daniel François van Alphen († 1840)
• Angenitha Donje, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara De Coen, Brussel, Brussel-Hoofdstad, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest († 1857)
• Franciscus Havelaers, Hove
• Corstiaan (Korstiaan) Strijdhorst, Zevenhuizen, 2761, Nederland († 1838)
• Adriana Antonis van den BROEK, Zundert,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND († 1845)
• Anna Maria van den Bosch, Eimeren, Overbetuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1823)

• Aart (0), Harderwijk
• Ariaantje Corsdr. de Reus (71), Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Bos Bosch (79), Oud-Zuilen (vh. Zuijlen), Utr, Nederland
• Ariaantje Corsse de Reus (70), Oud Beijerland
• Anna Maria van Hertum (32), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Huibert Segers LOEVESTEIJN (55), Cool
• John Holbrook I (57)
• Elisabeth Dirks MOLENAAR (51)
• Jean Jacques STROHMEYER (23), Burnhaupt-le-Haut, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Ariaantje Corsdr De REUS (71), Oud-Beijerland

• 1716 » Capability Brown, British landscape architect († 1783)
• 1720 » Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded Whitbread († 1796)
• 1748 » Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator († 1825)
• 1768 » Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist († 1812)
• 1797 » Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright († 1851)
• 1812 » Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian-American businessman, founded Buena Vista Winery († 1869)
• 1818 » Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts († 1895)
• 1839 » Gulstan Ropert, French-American bishop and missionary († 1903)
• 1842 » Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia († 1849)
• 1844 » Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman († 1924)

• 1621 » Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (b. 1547)
• 1751 » Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661)
• 1773 » Peshwa Narayan Rao, Prime Minister of Maratha Empire (b. 1755, assassinated)
• 1856 » Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
• 1879 » John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 » Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 » Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)

• 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.
• July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
• September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
• September 5 » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
• 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 30, 1774 was about 20.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest by west. Weather type: regen.