About the day » Sunday September 17, 1775Calender converter

• Adrianus Maarlevelt, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan de Rijke, Axel († 1831)
• Aartje van van Saveland, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland († 1858)
• Aaltje Remmerswaal, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Willemse van Mastrigt, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1805)
• Anje Peters Geerlof, Uithuizermeeden († 1845)
• Adriaan de Rijke (rieke), Axel
• Adriana Koopman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Ma(a)strigt, Leiden († 1817)
• Adrianus Lendrtsz BerCkel, Overschie

• GRIETJE KLOMP (23), Oude Niedorp
• Arien Erix (43), Barsingerhorn
• Alexandre Decelle Duclos (70), Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, United States
• Grietje Arendsdr. Herweijer (81), Abbenbroek
• Grietje Arends Herweijer (81), Abbenbroek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Van Camp (35), Weerde, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
• Grietje Arends Herweyner (81), Abbenbroek
• Adrianus Verdickt (0), Humbeek belgiquee
• Claes Cornelisz Schipper (63), Hilversum
• Dieuwke Jurjens (34), Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland

• 1730 » Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian-American general († 1794)
• 1739 » John Rutledge, American judge and politician, 2nd Chief Justice of the United States († 1800)
• 1743 » Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and political scientist († 1794)
• 1771 » Johann August Apel, German jurist and author († 1816)
• 1773 » Jonathan Alder, American captain and farmer († 1849)
• 1783 » Nadezhda Durova, Russian soldier († 1866)
• 1797 » Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist († 1821)
• 1817 » Herman Adolfovich Trautscohold, German geologist and paleontologist († 1902)
• 1819 » Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African general and politician, 1st President of the South African Republic († 1901)
• 1820 » Émile Augier, French playwright († 1889)

• 1721 » Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, French princess (b. 1645)
• 1762 » Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1687)
• 1771 » Tobias Smollett, Scottish-Italian author and poet (b. 1721)
• 1803 » Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer and director (b. 1766)
• 1808 » Benjamin Bourne, American judge and politician (b. 1755)
• 1817 » Jacques Bernard d'Anselme, French general (b. 1740)
• 1836 » Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist and author (b. 1748)
• 1852 » Francisco Javier Echeverría, Mexican businessman and politician. President (1841) (b. 1797)
• 1858 » Dred Scott, American slave (b. 1795)
• 1863 » Charles Robert Cockerell, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1788)

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 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.
• June 14 » American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
• August 20 » The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
• 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.
• September 25 » American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
• 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 September 17, 1775 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw.