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• Anna van Dijk, Kethel
• Elisabeth Smit, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1845)
• Bernardus Suijskens, Bergeijk, Netherlands († 1822)
• Engele Sellink († 1837)
• Elisabeth Heins van der Woude, Dockum, FRI, Nederland († 1815)
• Annigje Boere, Cabauw, Utrecht, Nederland († 1810)
• Engel Meesz Zuidhoek, Noordwijk
• Antje Nicolaas Sterenberg, Godlinze († 1850)
• Annigje Boere, Lopik († 1810)
• Engele Sellink, Kotten, Gelderland, Netherlands

• Annigje Jansd SASSENBURG (41), Carnisse
• Angélique Pépin-Lachance (64), St Francois, Ile de Orleans, Montmorency, Canada
• Catharina, Gertrud Boberg (0), Altenhagen, Hagen a.T.W., Niedersachsen, Duitsland
• jenneke gerrit vervoort, st. oedenrode
• Anna Vaessen (76), Bunde
• Janna Schoneveld, Erve Klein Nulend Epse
• Elisabeth Ritter (52)
• Hans Jochim Daniel KOERNER (0), Burg/Fehmarn (DE)
• Jan Lucas Manders (83)
• Anna (Catharine) Vaessen (76), Bunde

• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)
• 1827 » Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum († 1921)
• 1831 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone († 1900)

• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Joanna
6. Catharina
7. Elisabeth
8. Cornelia
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Adriana
14. Elizabeth
15. Aaltje
16. Jannetje

• 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)
• April 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
• July 6 » American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
• July 31 » The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
• August 6 » American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
• September 11 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Brandywine: The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
• October 7 » American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.

The temperature on May 16, 1777 was about 14.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.