About the day » Sunday March 24, 1776Calender converter

• Anna Gray, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
• Anthonia Boekhorst, Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonia Bokhorst, Deurne
• Aart Boluijt, Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1830)
• Adriana Pluimert, Numansdorp († 1858)
• Anna Maria van Balkom, Berlicum, Sint-Michielsgestel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1847)
• Aaltje Jans Hommes, Schildwolde, Slochteren († 1817)
• Anna Maria WILLEMS, Luyksgestel, 3952, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1844)
• Aart BOLLUIJT, Dinteloord († 1830)
• Aart Ruijter, Putten

• Geert Klaassens Niemeijer, Annerveen (Anloo)
• Mathias Huber (65), Vaskút, 6521, Magyarország
• Johann Langemeijer- (64), Mettingen, Duitsland
• Jan Jans (13)
• Jeanne PELOQUIN, Villiers-le-Roux, 16413, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France
• Anna Catharina Gernler (36), Versailles, 78646, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, Fran�a
• Aafje Pieters Boeijer (3)
• Adrianus Franken, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Geert Geerts Oldenburg (35), Gasselternijveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Jacobus Pieter Tazelaar (33), Oostkerke (Wolphaartsdijk)

• 1755 » Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom († 1827)
• 1762 » Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer († 1830)
• 1775 » Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer († 1835)
• 1782 » Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter († 1836)
• 1796 » John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician († 1878)
• 1796 » Zulma Carraud, French author († 1889)
• 1803 » Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician († 1882)
• 1808 » Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano († 1836)
• 1809 » Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic († 1882)
• 1809 » Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author († 1837)

• 1684 » Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband
• 1684 » Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629)
• 1773 » Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694)
• 1776 » John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (b. 1693)
• 1824 » Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753)
• 1838 » Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49)
• 1869 » Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)

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.
• July 4 » American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
• July 9 » George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
• July 12 » Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
• August 31 » William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
• 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 March 24, 1776 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.