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• Aleidis van den Heuvel, Utrecht
• Arij (Arie) van Herk, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel († 1812)
• Antonius Huijsmans, Steenbergen
• "Anthonia" Antonet Cornelis Antonet Cornelis, Boxtel, NL († 1851)
• Dorothy Woodman *, Candia, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Verenigde Staten († 1817)
• Adriana BRABERS, Loon op Zand,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1807)
• Cornelia Schellekens, Gemonde († 1848)
• Coleta De Ridder, Hofstade, Oost Vlaanderen, België († 1849)
• Charlotte Frederike van Ernst († 1798)
• David MOFFAT, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland († 1843)

• François CROQUET (50), Vaux-sur-Somme,80800,Somme,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Arnold "Arndt" Kiep (72), Esterwegen, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Christianus Lijben (73), Bilzen
• Andreas Hess (0), Bern, Switzerland
• Daniël PREVOO PREVOST (78), Valkenburg
• Daniel Prevoo (78), Limburg, Netherlands
• Benjamin Hawkins (52), Setauket, Suffolk, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Geerts Maaskamp, Vollenhove
• Adam Jans Spanhaak (79), Hattem, Hattem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Berend Jans, Maarslag

• 1727 » James Wolfe, English general († 1759)
• 1732 » František Brixi, Czech organist and composer († 1771)
• 1777 » Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator († 1857)
• 1803 » Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic († 1869)
• 1822 » Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician († 1888)
• 1827 » Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician († 1914)
• 1833 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician († 1893)
• 1836 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author († 1917)
• 1836 » Queen Emma of Hawaii († 1885)
• 1837 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer († 1910)

• 1726 » Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and composer (b. 1688)
• 1763 » John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
• 1850 » Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (b. 1789)
• 1861 » Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 » Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)

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 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• May 1 » Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt, Upper Bavaria, by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
• May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
• August 2 » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
• November 29 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
• December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".

The temperature on January 2, 1776 was about 2.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly east by south. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw.