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• Antoine Kinne, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1843)
• Antonia van Deudekom, Delft († 1807)
• Coleta Genoveva Minuy, St Andries († 1826)
• Antonius Kinne, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1843)
• Geesje Jans Keuning, Zweeloo († 1831)
• Chloe Wight, Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States († 1836)
• Cornelius van Wesel, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1859)
• Elizabeth Eliza McGrath, Mohawk River, New York
• Carl Willem Sillem, Hamburg, Duitsland († 1776)
• Anthonia van Deutekom († 1807)

• Dymphna Van Eerdeweg (53), Tessenderlo, 3980, België
• Benjamin Savell Jr (46), Sharon, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Christine Müller (1), Richstein, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Antoine Gagnon (72), Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Quebec, Canada
• Arnold van Roessel (6), Haaren
• Elizabeth Verheyen (50), Tessenderlo, 3980, België
• Claude Joseph Mayet Hugues (57), Longchaumois, 39, Jura, Franche-Comté, France
• Barbara GUTHMANN (1), Dessenheim, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Anneke Nout (72), Poederoijen, Nederland
• Jacobus van Vuure (35), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1733 » Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, and sailor († 1799)
• 1752 » John Brooks, American soldier and politician, 11th Governor of Massachusetts († 1825)
• 1757 » Manuel Tolsá, Spanish sculptor and first director of the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City († 1816)
• 1767 » Tyagaraja, Indian composer († 1847)
• 1770 » François Gérard, French painter († 1837)
• 1772 » Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher († 1823)
• 1796 » Horace Mann, American educator and politician († 1859)
• 1796 » William H. Prescott, American historian and scholar († 1859)
• 1796 » William Pennington, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1862)
• 1820 » Julia Gardiner Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States († 1889)

• 1729 » Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
• 1734 » James Thornhill, English painter and politician (b. 1675)
• 1737 » Eustace Budgell, English journalist and politician (b. 1686)
• 1774 » Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (b. 1714)
• 1776 » Jacques Saly, French painter and sculptor (b. 1717)
• 1790 » Matthew Tilghman, American politician (b. 1718)
• 1799 » Tipu, ruler of Mysore (b. 1750)
• 1811 » Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
• 1816 » Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1824 » Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754)

1. Jan
2. Pieter
3. Johannes
4. Cornelis
5. Hendrik
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. John
14. Klaas
15. Jean
16. Abraham

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Catharina
6. Marie
7. Trijntje
8. Elisabeth
9. Joanna
10. Grietje
11. Neeltje
12. Antje
13. Adriana
14. Aaltje
15. Elizabeth
16. Janna

• 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)
• June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
• June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
• July 27 » Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
• September 17 » American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
• October 18 » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
• December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The temperature on May 4, 1775 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast by east. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw.