About the day » Sunday February 5, 1775Calender converter

• Adam van Moorsel, Budel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1838)
• Abraham Milo, Haarlem († 1861)
• Aantje van Tienhoven, Meerkerk († 1833)
• Albert TER MEER
• Albert Barents, Eibergen († 1861)
• Albert Berendsen, Eibergen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Annetje Pieters Riethoven, Rijnsburg
• Adriana van Woudenberg, Ameide,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Geerdink, Usselo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Abraham KIEVIT Czn, Sommelsdijk, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH († 1835)

• Bart Gijsberts Bosch (3)
• Andries Pieters Roossien (Rosijn) (Roosjen) (60), Veendam, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Theresia Vercruysse (60)
• Anna Katharina Gertrud Meyer
• Hannah Punderson (41), Norwich, New London, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Roossien (Rosijn) (60), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Fockelina Blencke (76), Veenebroek, The Netherlands
• Dirk Annes (Durk) Ypey (Ypeij), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Mechteld Hesselink, De Heurne, Gelderland, Nederland
• Hermanus Judocus Van Overmeire (49), Hulst (NL)

• 1723 » John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic († 1794)
• 1725 » James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and politician († 1783)
• 1748 » Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer and conductor († 1798)
• 1788 » Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1850)
• 1795 » Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist († 1871)
• 1804 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet and hymn-writer († 1877)
• 1808 » Carl Spitzweg, German painter and poet († 1885)
• 1810 » Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer († 1880)
• 1827 » Peter Lalor, Irish-Australian activist and politician († 1889)
• 1837 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Church, Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers († 1899)

• 1705 » Philipp Spener, German theologian and author (b. 1635)
• 1751 » Henri François d'Aguesseau, French jurist and politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
• 1754 » Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
• 1766 » Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1775 » Eusebius Amort, German theologian and academic (b. 1692)
• 1790 » William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
• 1807 » Pasquale Paoli, Corsican commander and politician (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Charles XIII, king of Sweden (b. 1748)
• 1881 » Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795)
• 1882 » Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841)

• 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 14 » The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
• May 10 » American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
• July 3 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 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.
• 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 5, 1775 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: zeer betrokken.