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• adrienne COPPENS, Nieuwkerke (Belgium)
• Antonia (van de Kerkhof(f) Kerkhofs, Asten
• Barbe Simons, Zepperen, België
• Froukjen Jacobs Bergsma, Rauwerd, Boarnsterhim, Friesland, Netherlands († 1810)
• Helena van Stiphout, Helmond († 1819)
• Abram Everts Boer, de, Veendam († 1844)
• Ferdinant Louis COUSSEMENT, Waregem, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1842)
• Abraham Everts de Boer, Veendam († 1844)
• Ferdinand Louis Coussement, Waregem West-Vlaanderen († 1842)
• Antonius COUWENBERG, Terheijden,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1846)

• Jan Janssen Mathijssen, Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Janna van Overbeeke (49), Buttinge
• Cornelius Van den Eynde (58), Bonheiden, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Jacobus Demoor (80), Hermelgem
• Geysbertje Ewouds van Everdingen (30), Loenen aan de Vecht
• CORNELIA VAN HOEVE (32)
• Elisabet Marcus, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agatha Gravelaar (62), Zeist
• Andries Crombeen (71), Hulsterambacht Hontenisse
• Catherine Anastasie Equawaice (31), Montréal, Montréal (Urban Agglomeration), Quebec, Canada

• 1711 » Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician († 1787)
• 1777 » John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist († 1852)
• 1778 » Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Austria († 1854)
• 1785 » John Wilson, Scottish author and critic († 1854)
• 1797 » Frederick Augustus II of Saxony († 1854)
• 1822 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist († 1896)
• 1835 » Charles N. Sims, American Methodist preacher and 3rd chancellor of Syracuse University († 1908)
• 1850 » Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist († 1925)
• 1851 » James Budd, American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of California († 1908)
• 1852 » Gertrude Käsebier, American photographer († 1934)

• 1721 » Maria Barbara Carillo, victim of the Spanish Inquisition (b.1625)
• 1733 » Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (b. 1761)
• 1780 » Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)
• 1781 » Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian-Indian rebel leader (b. 1742)
• 1792 » Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)
• 1795 » Robert Rogers, English colonel (b. 1731)
• 1799 » Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and publisher (b. 1732)
• 1800 » Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
• 1807 » John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (b. 1721)
• 1808 » Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738)

• 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.
• January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
• March 9 » The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
• May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• July 8 » Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
• 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).

The temperature on May 18, 1776 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.