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• Adrianus Clement
• Albert Hartman, Hoogeveen († 1850)
• Anthonie Kreling, Oosterhout († 1842)
• Andries Adrianusz Zwaan, Rijnsburg
• Aaltje Westerink, Gemeente Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1851)
• Aaltje Westerink, Ermelo († 1851)
• Anna HONKOOP, Hoenkoop, Utrecht, Nederland († 1783)
• Adranus de Mul, Sas van Gent († 1831)
• Aarjen Jansz Groen, Bovenkarspel († 1819)
• Aagtje Derks Huizinga, Eenrum († 1831)

• Jakob Gans (25), Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Joanna Catharina Laureys (53), Waasmunster
• Joanna Maria Goormans (59), Grobbendonk
• Johann Jürgen Stuke (69), Lohne, Duitsland
• Barones. Sara Agatha Hop (22), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• John Cannon (5), Greenwich, Hampshire, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia van Dongen (56), Loon op Zand
• Johannes Serné (71), Haarlem
• Christina Jans Rohrbach, Verenigde Statn
• Cornelia Van DONGEN, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland NL

• 1730 » Antonín Kammel, Czech violinist and composer († 1788)
• 1752 » Humphry Repton, English gardener and author († 1818)
• 1752 » Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, French engineer, hydrographer, and politician, French Minister of Marine and the Colonies († 1807)
• 1774 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician († 1862)
• 1775 » Alexander Anderson, Scottish-American illustrator and engraver († 1870)
• 1790 » Manuel Blanco Encalada, Spanish-Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile († 1876)
• 1810 » John Putnam Chapin, American politician, 10th Mayor of Chicago († 1864)
• 1811 » Alson Sherman, American merchant and politician, 8th Mayor of Chicago († 1903)
• 1814 » Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, English art collector and philanthropist († 1906)
• 1816 » Charlotte Brontë, Cornish-English novelist and poet († 1855)

• 1699 » Jean Racine, French playwright and poet (b. 1639)
• 1719 » Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1640)
• 1720 » Antoine Hamilton, Irish-French soldier and author (b. 1646)
• 1722 » Robert Beverley, Jr., English historian and author (b. 1673)
• 1736 » Prince Eugene of Savoy (b. 1663)
• 1740 » Thomas Tickell, English poet and author (b. 1685)
• 1758 » Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (b. 1679)
• 1815 » Joseph Winston, American soldier and politician (b. 1746)
• 1825 » Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
• 1852 » Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)

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. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Elizabeth
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)
• January 1 » General George Washington hoists the first United States flag; the Grand Union Flag at Prospect Hill.
• January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
• 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 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
• December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".

The temperature on April 21, 1776 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.