About the day » Sunday October 5, 1777Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Brouns, Hulsberg, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana KRENTEBOL, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1852)
• Aart Boones, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1778)
• Adrianus van Broeckhove, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aagje Smit, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland († 1842)
• Abraham Looijsen, Groede
• Alje Hindriks Langeland, Uithuizermeeden († 1847)
• Adam Cockx KOX, Hapert, 3635, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1819)
• Alida Kamphuis, Groningen
• Aaltje Borssel, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1863)

• Georg Born (0), Berghausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Eelse Foppes Walraven (72), Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis Provilie (78), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Elizabeth Satabin (43), Alland'huy-et-Sausseuil, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France
• Cornelis Jansz PROVILIE (78), Klundert,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Henderijn Zweren SWEEREN (81), Huissen, 1512, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ernst Willem Ottos BERG (56), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gebke Willems (71), Ureterp aan de Vaart, Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Apollonia Jansdr. Cortecaes (13), Wassenaar
• Franciscus Verheyden (0), Kerkom

• 1728 » Chevalier d'Éon, French diplomat and spy († 1810)
• 1743 » Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer and educator († 1818)
• 1781 » Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher († 1848)
• 1792 » Joseph Crosfield, English businessman († 1844)
• 1795 » Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician, 13th Mayor of Halifax († 1873)
• 1803 » Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter († 1844)
• 1816 » Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary († 1885)
• 1817 » Catherine Cooper Hopley, British author and naturalist († 1911)
• 1820 » David Wilber, American lawyer and politician († 1890)
• 1824 » Henry Chadwick, English-American historian and author († 1908)

• 1714 » Kaibara Ekken, Japanese botanist and philosopher (b. 1630)
• 1740 » Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721)
• 1777 » Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
• 1802 » Sanité Bélair, Haitian freedom fighter (b. 1781)
• 1805 » Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1738)
• 1813 » Tecumseh, American tribal leader (b. 1768)
• 1827 » William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1761)
• 1848 » Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)

• 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 15 » American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence.
• August 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.
• August 22 » British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
• September 19 » American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
• December 18 » The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
• December 24 » Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

The temperature on October 5, 1777 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.