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• Berend Haselhof Roelfsema, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aagje Jans MIJZEN (MEIJSEN, KEIJSER), Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1829)
• Jacomina Bossers, Waspik
• Antje Sjoerds Jansma, Oosternijkerk († 1829)
• Arnoldus Aert Dirkx, Reusel, Nederland († 1859)
• Berent Hazelhoff Roelfzema, Groningen († 1812)
• Barend Harms Hazelhoff Roelfzema, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands († 1812)
• Berend Haselhoff Roelfsema, Groningen († 1812)
• Bernardus Hermannus Dreyer, Dankern, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Arnoldus Dirkse, Huissen († 1830)

• Guillemus Jacob Leonard Bommers, Woumen
• Anna Maria Blinn (52), Oberauerbach, Pfalz, Bayern
• Anne KIRSCHER (19), Burnhaupt-le-Bas, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Jeanne VEILLARD (40), Saint Christophe des Bois (Ile et villaine)
• Cornelia van den Nieuwendijk (21), Leimuiden
• Jan Baptist STOCKMANS (93), Pamel
• Maria Lopes (112), Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Maria Elisabeth Schöler (39), Siegen-Obersetzen, Duitsland
• Johan Nicolaas Bybau (0), Aardenburg,Gemeente Sluis,Zeeland,Netherlands
• Arnoldus Hen. de Kleijn (65), Uden, Noord Brabant, Netherlands

• 1746 » Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer († 1786)
• 1758 » Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor († 1806)
• 1778 » Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer († 1852)
• 1800 » Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer († 1879)
• 1815 » Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania († 1869)
• 1819 » Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor († 1895)
• 1820 » John F. Reynolds, American general († 1863)
• 1831 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator († 1917)
• 1833 » Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1918)
• 1842 » James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist († 1923)

• 1684 » Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (b. 1634)
• 1793 » Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (b. 1764)
• 1803 » Robert Emmet, Irish commander (b. 1780)
• 1815 » Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725)
• 1839 » Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
• 1840 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
• 1845 » Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)
• 1852 » Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
• 1855 » José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
• 1863 » Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (b. 1785)

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)
• 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 31 » American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
• June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
• 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."
• July 29 » Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
• September 17 » American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.

The temperature on September 20, 1775 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: omtrent helder.