About the day » Thursday February 16, 1775Calender converter

• Anna Gertrud ter Haart, Vardingholt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Anna Magdalena Frederike Henriëtte van Renesse van Wilp, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1839)
• Anna Magdalena Frederica H Van Renesse, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1839)
• Anna Magdalena Frederica Henrietta Van Renesse Van Wilp, Nijmegen (Gld) NL († 1839)
• Clasina SONNEVELD
• Anna Catharina Wambach, Koblenz-Horchheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
• Anna STEINMACHER *, Mottgers, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Hesse, Germany († 1826)
• Anna Magdalena Frederica Henriette van RENESSE, Nijmegen, 1689, Gelderland, Nederland († 1839)
• Amandus VERTONGHEN, Hekelgem († 1855)
• Baukje Hempenius, Marssum

• Jannes Jans Kars (62), Heerde
• Catherine MALLET (57), Lyon, 69, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France
• Jan Klaasz van der Meulen, Abbekerk
• Elisabeth Blecher (9), Banfe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Andreas Meul (74), Sint-Niklaas (Oost-Vlaanderen, België)
• Hermann Kloos (54), Beddelhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Gasparis De Ryck, Houtvenne, Antwerpen, België
• Jenneke Wilms Vervoort (40), Erp, Meierijstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gijsbert Cornelis van der Boer, Nieuw Loosdrecht
• Eleanor Cawood (75), St Marys, St Mary's, Maryland, United States

• 1727 » Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian botanist, chemist, and mycologist († 1817)
• 1740 » Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver († 1813)
• 1761 » Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general († 1804)
• 1774 » Pierre Rode, French violinist and composer († 1830)
• 1786 » Maria Pavlovna, Russian Grand Duchess († 1859)
• 1802 » Phineas Quimby, American mystic and philosopher († 1866)
• 1804 » Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist († 1885)
• 1812 » Henry Wilson, American colonel and politician, 18th Vice President of the United States († 1875)
• 1821 » Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar († 1865)
• 1822 » Francis Galton, English biologist and statistician († 1911)

• 1645 » Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1585)
• 1710 » Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author (b. 1632)
• 1721 » James Craggs the Younger, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1686)
• 1754 » Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1673)
• 1820 » Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758)
• 1862 » William Pennington American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
• 1898 » Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
• 1899 » Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)

• 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.
• July 5 » The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
• 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 29 » Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
• August 20 » The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
• 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.

The temperature on February 16, 1775 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.