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• Arie de Vries, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1831)
• Adriana Cornelisdr Prins, Sliedrecht († 1857)
• Cornelia Prick, Vroenhoven, Li, BE († 1818)
• Andele Meinderts Hoekstra, Berlikum († 1839)
• Adriana Cornelia Prins, Sliedrecht († 1857)
• Cornelis (Corneille) Vermunt, Zevenbergen († 1819)
• Beernt Mentink, Hengelo-Zelhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Nicolaasz Vries de, Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1831)
• Catherine {Catarena} Kauss, Northeast, Duchess County, New York, United States of America († 1859)
• Bernardus Ambrosius van Hoye, Sinaai (België)

• Elizabeth Hesketh Countess of Derby (81), Huyton, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
• Adriana van Blerck (15), Nispen en Essen (B)
• Jan van de Keuken
• Franciscus van de Put (0), Hapert
• Joannes Baptista Carbonez (0), Vladslo
• Aafke Willems Poede- (10), Donkerbroek, Nederland
• Elizabeth Hesketh
• Andreas Heirbaut (78), Temse, 9140, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Guilielmus SEGERS (73), Hingene,2880,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Elisabeth Hesketh (81)

• 1723 » John Burgoyne, English general and politician († 1792)
• 1736 » Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach († 1806)
• 1743 » Joseph Banks, English botanist and explorer († 1820)
• 1762 » Charles Frederick Horn, German-English composer and educator († 1830)
• 1767 » Rama II of Siam († 1824)
• 1774 » Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge († 1850)
• 1786 » Martin W. Bates, American lawyer and politician († 1869)
• 1786 » Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist, author, and academic († 1859)
• 1788 » Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian-German painter († 1857)
• 1827 » Lydia Becker, English-French activist († 1890)

• 1714 » Edmund Andros, English courtier and politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1637)
• 1721 » John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1648)
• 1732 » Francis Charteris, Scottish soldier (b. 1675)
• 1777 » Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
• 1785 » Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican lawyer and politician (b. 1746)
• 1799 » Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (b. 1742)
• 1810 » Henry Cavendish, French-English physicist and chemist (b. 1731)
• 1812 » Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
• 1815 » Robert Fulton, American engineer (b. 1765)
• 1825 » Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)

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. Klaas
15. John
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Joanna
7. Catharina
8. Elisabeth
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)
• May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
• June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
• 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.
• October 28 » American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
• 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 February 24, 1776 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.