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• Aechje Cornelisdr LIEFHEBBER, Alkmaar († 1777)
• Cornelia Usener, Delft
• Anna Jacoba Wilhelmina van Aylva, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1814)
• Antonetta Scriba, Giessen († 1848)
• Annigje van Schaik, Vleuten
• Anna Maria Ingenhudt, Maasgouw (Linne) (Limburg)
• Anna Gertrud Kemink, Suderwick
• Aaltje Hendriks Leemburg, Nijeholtpade, gem. Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1841)
• Bouwe Hielkes JONKERS, Augustinusga, Achtkarspelen († 1827)
• Catharina de Vaan, Vlijmen

• Abigail Wood (74), Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut
• Anna Cornelisse van der Burg (69), Wateringen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Cornelisz de BRUIJN (74), Dubbeldam
• Aalbert Cornelisse Koster (72), Pernis
• Arie Cornelisse Bruin de (74), Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arij Cornelisz de Bruijn (74), Dubbeldam, zh.nld
• Anna Cornelisse van der Burg (69), Wateringen
• Aalbert Cornelisz COSTER (72), Pernis, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Aalbert Cornelisse Koster (72), Pernis
• Anna van der Burg (69), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1718 » David Brainerd, American missionary († 1747)
• 1723 » Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician († 1781)
• 1727 » Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian minister and diplomat († 1794)
• 1745 » Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist († 1826)
• 1748 » Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian († 1831)
• 1772 » William Lawless, Irish revolutionary and French general († 1824)
• 1808 » Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France († 1873)
• 1816 » Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer († 1895)
• 1818 » Heinrich Göbel, German-American mechanic and engineer († 1893)
• 1826 » Dinah Craik, English author and poet († 1887)

• 1703 » Lancelot Addison, English clergyman and educator (b. 1632)
• 1769 » Chief Pontiac, American tribal leader (b. 1720)
• 1831 » John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (b. 1764)
• 1873 » William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
• 1874 » Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1817)
• 1881 » William Burges, English architect and designer (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1814)
• 1887 » Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
• 1899 » Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (b. 1833)

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. Elizabeth
15. Aaltje
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)
• 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 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
• August 20 » The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
• September 8 » The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
• September 11 » Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The temperature on April 20, 1775 was about 8.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken helder bui betrokken.