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• Antonius Fredericus Smeets, Strucht († 1839)
• Catharina Dalmaijer, Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Crabbendam, Amsterdam († 1812)
• Bartha Stoeltie, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1841)
• Catarina Sophie Schmidt, Duitsland Degow, Krs Kolberg Körlin/Pommeren
• Annetje, Nijkerk
• Burg van Dalen, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1848)
• Bartha Stoeljes, Amsterdam
• Antje Beerts Kuiken, St. Jacobiparochie († 1816)
• Antje Beerts Walings Kuiken, St. Jacobiparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland († 1816)

• Adriana-Maria Bastiaen Janssen (25), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles PICARD (73), Olsberg (Breidenbach), 57720, Moselle, Lorraine, FRANCE
• Anna Denijs (72), Varsenare, Belgium
• Adriana Maria Bastiaen Janssens (25), Tilburg
• Hendrika Gerrits Kruimer (7), Beekbergen
• Anna Maria Rottmund (76), Vaskút, 6521, Magyarország
• Edward -Harrold HARROLL
• Abram Scheepmaker (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Commers (77), Zaamslag, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annigje Claesse van der Horst (80), Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1702 » Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau († 1769)
• 1703 » Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1775)
• 1740 » Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general († 1817)
• 1754 » Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. († 1825)
• 1788 » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic († 1853)
• 1815 » Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet and historian († 1894)
• 1820 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer († 1893)
• 1828 » Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general († 1895)
• 1834 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty († 1904)
• 1835 » Elisha Gray, American businessman, co-founded Western Electric († 1901)

• 1696 » Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (b. 1630)
• 1769 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1689)
• 1788 » Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1799 » Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)
• 1815 » Guillaume Brune, French general and politician (b. 1763)
• 1823 » Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)
• 1834 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (b. 1793)
• 1849 » Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ottoman Albanian commander (b. 1769)
• 1854 » Heinrich Clauren, German author (b. 1771)
• 1859 » Horace Mann, American educator and politician (b. 1796)

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. 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)
• April 20 » American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
• May 31 » American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
• June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
• 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.
• September 17 » American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
• 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 August 2, 1775 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: omtrent helder zeer betrokken.