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• Aafje Hoogwinkel, Vlaardingen
• Aaltje Van Den Pol, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Abraham Rutgers, Amsterdam
• Aart van den Boogaard, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1783)
• Aarjen Klaasz Blom, Broek op Langedijk, Nederland († 1828)
• Anthonij Bielderman, Vorden
• Aafje Hoogwinkel, Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1781)
• Aaltje van de Pol, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1841)
• Alewijn Maan Voogd, vlaardingen (zuid holland) († 1830)
• Anna Maria CARLIER, Aalten, Gelderland, NEDERLAND

• , Amsterdam
• Matthias Völkel (0), Erndtebrück, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Maria Middeldorp, Zelhem
• Jan OUWERKERK (0), Bergambacht
• Jean Hubert LAFFRU (1), LORCE, Liège, Belgique
• adriana schot (0), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Cornelis Gijsbertsz van den Berg (1), Doorn
• Lowies van Turen, 's-Grevelduin-Capelle, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Aldegonda Dickmans (40), Arcen, Li.NL
• Adriaan Verhulst (12), Westkapelle, Zeeland, Netherlands

• 1742 » Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic († 1810)
• 1749 » Yolande de Polastron, French educator († 1793)
• 1750 » Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna († 1795)
• 1752 » Carl Stenborg, Swedish opera singer, actor, and director († 1813)
• 1767 » August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and critic († 1845)
• 1774 » Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun and mystic († 1824)
• 1779 » Mustafa IV, Ottoman sultan († 1808)
• 1783 » N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, philosopher, and author († 1872)
• 1804 » Eduard Mörike, German pastor, poet, and academic († 1875)
• 1814 » Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer, and historian († 1874)

• 1682 » Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1606)
• 1721 » Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
• 1755 » Ephraim Williams, American soldier and philanthropist (b. 1715)
• 1761 » Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1698)
• 1780 » Enoch Poor, American general (b. 1736)
• 1784 » Ann Lee, English-American religious leader (b. 1736)
• 1811 » Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (b. 1741)
• 1831 » John Aitken, Scottish-American publisher (b. 1745)
• 1853 » Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar, co-founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
• 1882 » Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (b. 1809)

• 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 4 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
• June 12 » The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
• 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.
• October 11 » American Revolution: A fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
• October 28 » American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
• December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".

The temperature on September 8, 1776 was about 17.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: regen omtrent helder.