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• Dirk Bouwhuizen, Hoogland
• Adriana Wagemakers, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1860)
• Franciscus Louis Eduwaere, Esen († 1782)
• Angenis Huijskes, Kampen
• Antonetha VAN GESTEL, Schijndel,Noord-Brabant,Netherlands († 1817)
• Antonia (Antenetha) van Gestel, Schijndel
• Elisabeth Tuttel, Steenwijk († 1854)
• Aagje Hendriks, amsterdam (noord holland)
• Anna Maria SOETEWEY, Ekeren, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Anthonij Voerman, Utrecht († 1815)

• Dirkje Gerrits Korpershoek (58), 's-Gravenzande
• Daniel Klinkenberg (0), Noordwijk
• Elisabeth Adelgunde von Schönaich (62)
• Anne Marie Joseph D'HALLUIN (0)
• Dirkje Dirksdr Hogendijk (53), Scheveningen
• Arij Franse Ketting (60), Dinteloord
• Everts (Evertsen) (0), Groevenbeek, Nederland
• Alida van Hoorn (0), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aart Hoogendoorn (0), Broek, Nederland
• Anna Barbara Bellens (54), Noorderwijk (2200, Antwerpen)

• 1739 » Jean Nicolas Houchard, French General of the French Revolution († 1793)
• 1746 » Gustav III of Sweden († 1792)
• 1749 » Charles James Fox, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs († 1806)
• 1754 » Andrew Ellicott, American soldier and surveyor († 1820)
• 1761 » Louis Klein, French general († 1845)
• 1763 » Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Ukrainian general and politician († 1831)
• 1776 » E. T. A. Hoffmann, German jurist, author, and composer († 1822)
• 1787 » Christian Ludwig Brehm, German pastor and ornithologist († 1864)
• 1804 » Delphine de Girardin, French author († 1855)
• 1814 » Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, French Crown Princess († 1858)

• 1626 » Samuel Argall, English captain and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1572)
• 1639 » Jörg Jenatsch, Swiss pastor and politician (b. 1596)
• 1666 » Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (b. 1588)
• 1709 » George Rooke, English admiral and politician (b. 1650)
• 1877 » Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (b. 1796)
• 1881 » James Collinson, English painter (b. 1825)
• 1883 » Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
• 1895 » Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
• 1939 » Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician, created Muesli (b. 1867)

1. Jan
2. Pieter
3. Hendrik
4. Johannes
5. Cornelis
6. Joannes
7. Jacob
8. Willem
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Jean
13. Dirk
14. John
15. Klaas
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Joanna
7. Catharina
8. Elisabeth
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Elizabeth
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Adriana
15. Antje
16. Mary

• 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 Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
• June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
• September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
• September 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
• December 7 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
• December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.

The temperature on January 24, 1776 was about -1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer betrokken.