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• Anna Elisabeth Vervloet, Lier, Antwerpen, Belgë († 1818)
• Ana Francisca da Silva, Aiuruoca, Minas Gerais, Brasil
• Appolonia Bleijenberge, Kieldrecht († 1783)
• Carlo Dito Francesco Giuseppe of Naples and Sicily, Naples, Napoli, Campania, Italy († 1778)
• Anna Catharina Simonis, Heeze
• Agnita van Eeden, 's-Gravenhage († 1805)
• Catherine Marthe Justine de Monsures, Aumale, Seine-Maritime, France
• Arnoldus Joannis Denisen, Zeeland (N.Br.)
• Cornelis Pietersz Bakker, Westzaandam († 1822)
• Arnoldus Venmans, Gemonde, NL

• Katharina Strack (79), Oberndorf, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Lammigjen Roefs Suk (67), Veendam
• Andries Ariesz BOEKHOUT (37)
• Hayke Janssen Frey (73), Völlen, Ostfriesland, Germany
• Cornelis Cornelisz Ooms (0), Stolwijk
• Anne DROSSLER* (73), St Pierre St Paul, Rosheim, Bas Rhin, Alsace
• Anna Katherine DUCHAMPS, Berlaar, 2590, Antwerpen, België
• Elisabeth Hendrica Snethlage (0)
• Izaak Landa (0), Leiden
• Cecilia Gerrits van Geest (42), Groningen

• 1745 » Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon († 1799)
• 1766 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, first dictator of Paraguay († 1840)
• 1785 » Andreas Moustoxydis, Greek historian and philologist († 1860)
• 1793 » James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War († 1862)
• 1795 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic († 1871)
• 1799 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author († 1831)
• 1803 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer († 1888)
• 1807 » Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist († 1891)
• 1808 » Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American conchologist and paleontologist († 1864)
• 1811 » Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician († 1874)

• 1711 » Philips van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
• 1718 » Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1725 » Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1653)
• 1731 » Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)
• 1734 » John Dennis, English playwright and critic (b. 1657)
• 1813 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
• 1829 » Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)
• 1831 » Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1840 » Frances Burney, English author and playwright (b. 1752)
• 1852 » Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)

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)
• April 19 » American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
• July 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
• September 11 » Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• October 13 » The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
• 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.
• December 9 » American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.

The temperature on January 6, 1775 was about 8.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen.