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• Charles McGehee, Prince Edward County, VA († 1794)
• Dirk Ypes HOLLANDER († 1844)
• Antonius Wilhelmus Meulendijks, Beek en Donk († 1858)
• Cornelis Poelert, Vorden († 1830)
• Anna Joanna Derks Peeters Peters, Groesbeek († 1810)
• Anna Catharina Steenakkers, Blitterswijk, Limburg, Netherlands († 1838)
• Anna Melis
• Christina Knoops, Nieuw-Vossemeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Hensen, Rhede
• Antoine Joseph FIEVET, Couture Saint Germain,1380,Brabant Wallon,Wallonie, België

• Elizabeth Bunker (37), Island of Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts
• Georg Glatz (41), Ottersheim Dtsl
• Anna Carolina Van den Berg, Lier, België
• Anna Maria Melis (62), Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver, 2861, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Cornelis Stevensz. van Zeijl (76), Utrecht, UTR, Nederland
• Anna Theresia Deman, Oostduinkerke (B)
• Anna Margaret Schmidt (93), Wingen, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
• Clasina (Nicolaa Peter) Veeters, Zeelst
• Anna Maria Coelen (0), Kessenich
• Cornelis Stevens van Zijl (76), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1728 » Caesar Rodney, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware († 1784)
• 1744 » Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg († 1819)
• 1746 » William Billings, American composer and educator († 1800)
• 1748 » Charles XIII of Sweden († 1818)
• 1769 » Solomon Sibley, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 1st Mayor of Detroit († 1846)
• 1786 » Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician († 1871)
• 1798 » Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman († 1875)
• 1819 » Ann Eliza Smith, American author and patriot († 1905)
• 1821 » Richard H. Anderson, American general († 1879)
• 1832 » Charles Crozat Converse, American lawyer and composer († 1918)

• 1653 » Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581)
• 1708 » Guru Gobind Singh, Indian 10th Sikh guru (b. 1666)
• 1772 » John Woolman, American preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
• 1787 » Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (b. 1711)
• 1792 » George Mason, American lawyer and politician (b. 1725)
• 1793 » Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, President of the Board of Trade (b. 1718)
• 1796 » Thomas Reid, Scottish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1710)
• 1849 » Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)
• 1884 » Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829)
• 1894 » Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (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. Trijntje
7. Marie
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)
• July 26 » The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
• 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 8 » The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
• October 27 » King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
• 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 10 » The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.

The temperature on October 7, 1775 was about 15.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.