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• Aachje in 't Veld, Dubbeldam, Gem. Dordrecht
• August von Lippe-Detmold († 1809)
• Adrian Levi Rau, Dodewaard
• Claas Derks de Wit, Franeker († 1846)
• August van Lippe Detmold († 1809)
• Aart van der Straaten, dordrecht (zuid holland) († 1848)
• Adrianus Rauch (Rau), Dodewaard
• August Van Lippe Detmold († 1809)
• Claas Dirks de Wit, Franeker († 1846)
• Casimir de Lippe-Detmold, Detmold, 05766, Allemagne († 1809)

• Cornelis Hendriksz van Der Steen (75), Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• James Screven (0)
• Elisabeth Röss (1), Alertshausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Jacquette Jacquine DUBOIS (58), Saint-M'Hervé, 35300, Ille et Vilaine, Bretagne, France
• Jantien Geerts Hoijting, Ter Apel
• Cornelis Hendriksz. van der Steen (75), Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elizabeth Pfau (33)
• Herman Jan van Oort, Kapel Avezaath
• Antonia Stevens van Eck (41), Ameronge
• Adrianus Lemmens (79), Heusden (BE)

• 1704 » Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician († 1777)
• 1757 » Charles X of France († 1836)
• 1796 » Joseph Bonomi the Younger, British Egyptologist and sculptor († 1878)
• 1835 » Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor († 1921)
• 1837 » Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic († 1902)
• 1840 » Simeon Solomon, English painter († 1905)
• 1845 » Carl Gustav Thulin, Swedish shipowner († 1918)
• 1850 » Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist († 1930)
• 1852 » Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)
• 1858 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist († 1935)

• 1691 » William Sacheverell, English politician (b. 1638)
• 1729 » Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (b. 1654)
• 1793 » Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary and linguist (b. 1718)
• 1797 » Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi and scholar (b. 1720)
• 1806 » Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (b. 1731)
• 1808 » John Claiborne, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1831 » Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
• 1873 » George Ormerod, English historian and author (b. 1785)
• 1897 » Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)

• 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)
• June 13 » American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
• 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."
• September 26 » American Revolution: British troops occupy Philadelphia.
• October 4 » American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
• November 29 » San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
• December 19 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

The temperature on October 9, 1777 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer betrokken.