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• Adrianus van Soestbergen, Utrecht
• Hilke Ulrichs, Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland († 1848)
• Antje Jurjens Hijmersma (Hiemersma), Kootstertille, Kollum, Friesland, Nederland
• Cecilia TRUYMAN, Stekene († 1862)
• Dirkje Gerritsdr van KLAVEREN, Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1859)
• Ignatius Baeijens, parochie Sint-Martinus, Balegem, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1856)
• Arie Vervoorn, Brakel († 1835)
• Dirkje van Klaveren, ,,, Lisse († 1859)
• Adrianus van der Heijden, Steensel († 1840)
• Catherine Smith

• Hinke Ijpes
• Adriana Boudewijnse Blaak (54), Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Leuntje Woutersdr Dijckhuijsen (79), Ter Heijde
• James Green Jr (73), King Georges Parish, Prince George's, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Roelofs VAN TIL (55), Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Hinke Ypes POPPINGA (66), Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Fryslân, Nederland
• James Greene (73), King Georges, Prince George's, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Hendrick Jan OBBENS (46), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Grietje van der Leeuw (2), Rotterdam
• Joannes Aertgeerts (15), Broechem, Ranst, Antwerpen, België

• 1756 » James Gillray, English caricaturist and printmaker (d.1815)
• 1764 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general († 1813)
• 1790 » William Wentworth, Australian journalist, explorer, and politician († 1872)
• 1803 » Vladimir Odoyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic († 1869)
• 1814 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer († 1874)
• 1818 » Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and suffragist († 1893)
• 1819 » Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist († 1903)
• 1820 » George Grove, English musicologist and historian († 1900)
• 1823 » Goldwin Smith, English-Canadian historian and journalist († 1910)
• 1831 » Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer († 1902)

• 1667 » Jeremy Taylor, Irish bishop and saint (b. 1613)
• 1686 » Louis Maimbourg, French priest and historian (b. 1610)
• 1721 » Jacques Lelong, French priest and author (b. 1665)
• 1744 » John Cruger, Danish-American businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of New York City (b. 1678)
• 1749 » Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (b. 1719)
• 1766 » Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (b. 1726)
• 1795 » Ahilyabai Holkar, Queen of Indore (b. 1725)
• 1826 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)
• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)

1. Jan
2. Hendrik
3. Pieter
4. Johannes
5. Cornelis
6. Joannes
7. Jacob
8. Willem
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Jean
13. Dirk
14. John
15. Klaas
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
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)
• 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.
• April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
• July 12 » Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
• September 9 » The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
• 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 August 13, 1776 was about 18.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.