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• Antje Romkes, Augsbuurt
• Antonia van Melsen, BRON: RK doopboek van Schalkwijk
• Anna Catharina Vercruysse, Ruddervoorde († 1848)
• Anneke Nikkels, Beekbergen (Apeldoorn) († 1784)
• Beert Gerrits, Doornspijk, Nederland
• Anne Maria Garverdink, Meddo
• Anne Jacobs Kloosterman, Harkema Opeinde († 1842)
• Benjamin Fairman, Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
• Anton Gottfried Joseph Wirtz, Landkreis Düsseldorf, Derendorf, Rheinland, Deutschland († 1776)
• Beert, Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1817)

• Maria Dubbeldam (5), Neder-Hardinxveld (Hardinxveld-Giessendam)
• Hezekiah Camp (51), Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut Colony
• Louis den Os (0), Leiden,Leiden,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Martha Heemskerk, Voorhout
• Hermanus Ashoff (44), Rotterdam
• Goverina Gerrits Boom van der (31), Naaldwijk
• Dorothea Kerstens
• John Pekin Duncan (54), Moores Fort, Washington, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Helena de MEY (26), Willemstad, Curaçao
• Bethiah Folger (81), Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten

• 1718 » Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier and politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1783)
• 1725 » Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire († 1774)
• 1758 » Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral († 1805)
• 1766 » Charlotte, Princess Royal of England († 1828)
• 1786 » Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican general, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Mexico († 1843)
• 1803 » Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and theorist († 1850)
• 1803 » Mercator Cooper, American captain and explorer († 1872)
• 1808 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician († 1868)
• 1810 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author († 1865)
• 1816 » Paul Féval, père, French author and playwright († 1887)

• 1703 » Charles de Saint-Évremond, French-English soldier, author, and critic (b. 1610)
• 1800 » Michael Denis, Austrian poet and author (b. 1729)
• 1804 » Michael Hillegas, American politician, 1st Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
• 1833 » Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
• 1862 » William "Bull" Nelson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1887 » Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon and academic (b. 1810)
• 1889 » Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (b. 1814)
• 1902 » Émile Zola, French journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1902 » William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825)

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 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
• June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• 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.

The temperature on September 29, 1774 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen.