About the day » Sunday July 7, 1776Calender converter

• Aalbert Albertse Plugge, Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1832)
• Adriana Ravoo, 's-Gravenhage, Nederland († 1830)
• Aalbert Aalbertse Plugge, Scheveningen, Nederland († 1832)
• Anna Harnish
• Aagtje Cornelis Verheij, Werkendam,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aalbert Aalbertse Plugge, Scheveningen († 1832)
• Adrianus Isaacsz Hokke, Geervliet († 1845)
• Aaltje Leurink, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1849)
• Anna Maria Lensen, Heppeneert († 1839)
• ABRAHAM GOUDKUIJL, Apeldoorn († 1837)

• Johannes VANMARSENILLE, Borlo, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• George CLIFFORD (32), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland)
• Grietje Joost (Joosten) Limburg (Limburgh) (28), Oudendijk
• Johann Hermann Wilholte, Heede
• Benjamin Guyton (74), Baltimore, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Jacob Ambrosiusz de Jong (1), Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Janna Berendina Te Kronnie (1)
• Anna Cathrina Degener (60), Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Bruce (83), Isles, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France
• Louise Caroline Margarethe Charlotte von BLANKENSEE (40), Lippehne

• 1752 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom († 1834)
• 1766 » Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general († 1815)
• 1831 » Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American poet and religious writer († 1914)
• 1833 » Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator († 1898)
• 1843 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1926)
• 1846 » Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian physician and author († 1916)
• 1848 » Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil († 1919)
• 1851 » Charles Albert Tindley, American minister and composer († 1933)
• 1855 » Ludwig Ganghofer, German author and playwright († 1920)
• 1859 » Rettamalai Srinivasan, Indian politician († 1911)

• 1701 » William Stoughton, American judge and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1631)
• 1713 » Henry Compton, English bishop (b. 1632)
• 1718 » Alexei Petrovich, Russian tsar (b. 1690)
• 1730 » Olivier Levasseur, French pirate (b. 1690)
• 1758 » Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (b. 1706)
• 1764 » William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (b. 1683)
• 1776 » Jeremiah Markland, English scholar and academic (b. 1693)
• 1790 » François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher and author (b. 1721)
• 1816 » Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1751)
• 1863 » William Mulready, Irish genre painter (b. 1786)

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)
• January 10 » American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
• March 2 » American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
• May 19 » American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
• June 7 » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
• July 2 » American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.
• September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.

The temperature on July 7, 1776 was about 18.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.