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• Aaltjen Westerink, Nunspeet, Gelderland, NL († 1851)
• Anna Maria Aaleid Wellemeijer, Mettingen, Pruisen, Duitsland
• Adrianus Huijbrechts, Merksplas († 1836)
• Aeltje ten Brink, Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara Theresia TANGHE, Izegem, 36008, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1781)
• Catharina Welten, Aarle-Rixtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1844)
• Aletta Anthonia van Pleuren, Amboina († 1843)
• "Joanna" Johanna Maria Jennemie Johanna Maria, Schijndel († 1830)
• Aaltjen Peters Westerink, Nunspeet, Gelderland, Nederland († 1851)
• Aletta Anthonia van Pleuren, Ambon, Indonesië († 1843)

• Catharina Koeckaerts
• Dersken TOEBES (38), Varsseveld, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Jacobus DE BOCK (68), Maarke,9680,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anna Catharina Wuyts (42), Westerlo, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Lammert (Lambert) Sanders (57), Alkmaar
• Johannes Limburg (59)
• Cornelius De Beuckelaer
• Jacob Harms (36), Leek, Groningen, Nederland
• Gerrit Tuschvelt
• Joannes Rubbens (83), Hamme

• 1747 » Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans († 1793)
• 1764 » Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and politician, French Minister of War († 1830)
• 1769 » Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator († 1830)
• 1771 » Richard Trevithick, Cornish-English engineer and explorer († 1833)
• 1780 » Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse († 1868)
• 1784 » Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal († 1877)
• 1787 » John Robertson, American lawyer and politician († 1873)
• 1794 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic († 1867)
• 1802 » Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and herpetologist († 1884)
• 1808 » Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer († 1889)

• 1695 » Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (b. 1621)
• 1716 » Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, English admiral and politician (b. 1648)
• 1722 » Charles Leslie, Irish priest and theologian (b. 1650)
• 1793 » Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French botanist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1763)
• 1794 » Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright and poet (b. 1741)
• 1826 » Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (b. 1763)
• 1853 » James Iredell, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788)
• 1853 » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (b. 1788)
• 1855 » Henry De la Beche, English geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1796)
• 1868 » Tewodros II of Ethiopia (b. 1818)

• 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 » American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
• 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.
• August 10 » American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
• September 9 » The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
• September 10 » American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.

The temperature on April 13, 1776 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken.