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• Antje Annes Anema, Lippenhuizen († 1811)
• Brechtje Mennen Mennenga, Uphusen, Ostfriesland, Germany († 1825)
• Chatérine Charlotte Lapra, Amsterdam († 1845)
• Alllegonda Vosters, Reusel († 1810)
• Catherine Charlotte Lapra, Amsterdam († 1845)
• Cornelia van Opzeeland, Hillegom, ZH, Nederland
• Aldegonda VOSTERS, Reusel († 1810)
• Arnoldus Merks, Oirschot, Nederland
• Catharina Lauermann, Büschfeld († 1776)
• Elisabeth Spickernagel, Landkreis Düsseldorf, Kaiserswerth, Rheinland, Deutschland († 1829)

• Jannetje Huijchsdr. Sonnevelt (0), Katwijk
• Arien Claesse van Hoeflaken (66)
• Nahum GREEN (46), Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Mary BLOOD (62), Wrentham,MA
• Maria Leber (48), Winterberg, Kreis Brilon
• Geertje Sijmons Plas (41), Edam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Geertje Sijmonsd Plas (41), Edam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabetha Timmermans (62), Horn
• Cornelis Willemszn Vermeulen (76), Kralingen
• Marie Thérèse FOURNEAU (0)

• 1744 » Giulio Maria della Somaglia, Italian cardinal († 1830)
• 1763 » Philip Charles Durham, Scottish admiral and politician († 1845)
• 1797 » Daniel Drew, American businessman and financier († 1879)
• 1801 » George Bradshaw, English cartographer and publisher († 1853)
• 1805 » Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher († 1859)
• 1806 » Horace Abbott, American businessman and banker († 1887)
• 1817 » Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter and illustrator († 1900)
• 1817 » Martin Körber, Baltic German pastor, composer, and conductor († 1893)
• 1841 » Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician († 1912)
• 1843 » Johannes Schmidt, German linguist and academic († 1901)

• 1752 » Peter Warren, Irish admiral and politician (b. 1703)
• 1781 » Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
• 1792 » René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, French lawyer and politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
• 1813 » Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
• 1833 » William Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1759)
• 1839 » Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1755)
• 1844 » Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1791)
• 1856 » Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (b. 1810)
• 1857 » Thomas Dick, Scottish minister, astronomer, and author (b. 1774)
• 1887 » Agostino Depretis, Italian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Italy († 1813)

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. Marie
7. Trijntje
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 5 » The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
• July 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
• 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.
• August 23 » American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
• October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
• 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 July 29, 1775 was about 21.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: donder weerlicht hagel.