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• Anna Judoca den Decker, Oostkerke, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1815)
• Ältjen Hilderink, Lichtenvoorde, Gelderland (NL.) († 1856)
• Catharina Wilholte, Heede, Dörpen, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Duitsland
• Anne Marie HARTMANN, Habsheim, 68, Haut Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Agnes Marie Jeanne LEMPEREUR, Ferrières-en-Gâtinais, 45145, Loiret, Centre, France
• Arij Jansz BLAAK, Zuid-Beijerland
• Bernardus Juffermans, Zoeterwoude († 1775)
• Anna Lucia Evers, Brandenhusen (Poel), Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ksp. Kirchdorf/Insel Poel
• Anna Judoca de Deckere, Oostkerke († 1814)
• Christiaan Gatlieb van der WERKEN, Oldemarkt († 1811)

• Katharina Höse (2), Weidenhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Huijbert Gerridse van Kooten (Coten) (54), Breukelen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Henrich Rank (0), Wingeshausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Christoffel Beudeker, Rotterdam
• Aalt Willems SCHOLTEN (12), Steenderen, NDL
• Hannah Craig (51)
• Judge Robert Brown (93), Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Melis (80), Serooskerke
• Joannes Janssen (5), Hommersum (D)
• Ida Quiten (85), Beesel

• 1763 » Augustin Robespierre, younger brother of French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre († 1794)
• 1775 » Manuel Garcia, Spanish opera singer and composer († 1832)
• 1784 » Peter De Wint, English painter († 1849)
• 1788 » William Henry Smyth, Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist
• 1796 » Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, consort of George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz († 1880)
• 1797 » Joseph Méry, French author and journalist († 1866)
• 1800 » Theodor Fliedner, German Lutheran minister († 1864)
• 1801 » John Batman, Australian entrepreneur and explorer († 1839)
• 1804 » Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter († 1871)
• 1808 » Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, 16th President of Peru († 1875)

• 1731 » Ignjat Đurđević, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1675)
• 1773 » Alexis Piron, French playwright and author (b. 1689)
• 1774 » Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1717)
• 1775 » Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel (b. 1742)
• 1789 » Baron d'Holbach, French-German philosopher and author (b. 1723)
• 1793 » Louis XVI of France (b. 1754)
• 1795 » Samuel Wallis, English navigator and explorer (b. 1728)
• 1809 » Josiah Hornblower, American engineer and politician (b. 1729)
• 1814 » Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French botanist and author (b. 1737)
• 1823 » Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentinian cleric, journalist, and poet (b. 1761)

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. Adriana
13. Antje
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)
• April 18 » American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
• April 19 » American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
• April 20 » American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
• 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."
• November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
• November 13 » American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.

The temperature on January 21, 1775 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.