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• Aaltje Pieters Kikkert, Den Hoorn (Texel, NH) († 1808)
• Aafje Blok, Scheveningen
• Aaltje Kikkert, Den Hoorn, Texel († 1808)
• Aaldrik Abels Rubing, Winschoten
• Anna Margaretha Bonus, Elmpt
• Anna Elisabeth Tebbenhof, Delft
• Aaltje Kikkert, Den Hoorn († 1808)
• Adrianus Van Seters, Dirksland, Dirksland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aasje Blok, Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1847)
• Andries Janszoon NOTEBOOM, Terwolde, Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland

• Gijsbegt van Valburg (34), Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gijsbert Gijsbertsz van Valburg (34), Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Hendriksdr Struijk (46)
• Hendrick Gerritse (77), Heemskerk
• Hendrik Gerritsz Diemeer (77), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend (Barend) te (ter) Neethe (Neet) (64), Aalten
• Hendrik Gerritse Diemeer (77), Heemskerk
• Gijsbert Gijsbertsz VALBURG (34), Dinteloord en Prinsenland
• Gijsbert van Valburg (34), Dinteloord
• Hendrik Blasiusz van der Waal (6), Ridderkerk

• 1729 » Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer († 1811)
• 1755 » Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War († 1813)
• 1780 » Piet Retief, South African ruler († 1838)
• 1793 » Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist († 1831)
• 1795 » Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist († 1856)
• 1815 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist († 1902)
• 1817 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith († 1892)
• 1833 » Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist († 1887)
• 1840 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker († 1917)
• 1842 » John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)

• 1667 » Hans Nansen, Danish politician (b. 1598)
• 1671 » Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (b. 1612)
• 1742 » Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1793 » Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
• 1793 » Lord George Gordon, English politician (b. 1751)
• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)

• 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)
• March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
• April 19 » American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
• June 11 » The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
• July 3 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 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.

The temperature on November 12, 1775 was about 7.0 °C. There was 132 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken regen.