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• Apolonia Recourt, Dordrecht († 1807)
• Dimphna Rasenberg, Made, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1848)
• Aplonia RECOURT, Dordrecht
• András Szabó, Zsáka, Hajdu-Bihar
• David Royster, Clarksville, Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States († 1865)
• Aaltjen Garrits Woestenenk (Zweverink), Lochem († 1779)
• Dirk (Derk) Hendriksz Stolk, Amsterdam († 1860)
• Annetje de Knegt, Abbenbroek, 3216, Nederland († 1803)
• Elisabeth COPPIETERS, Zele († 1856)
• "Wilhelmina" Jacomijn Antonii Mijntje Guillemette Jacomijn Antonii Mijntje, Veghel († 1860)

• Aaltje Scherpenzeel (8)
• Joanna Aelbrecht (60), Lebbeke
• Geertje Klaasdr Barnhoorn (5), Noordwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Jacobus Govaerts (81), Meer
• Heijltje van den Dool (83), Schoonhoven, zh.nld
• Marie Catherine DENIS, Saint-Julien-de-Chédon, 41400, France
• Jacobus Pieters Govaerts (81), Meer
• Adrianus CEULEERS, Wilderen, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Andrei Mikhailovich Galitzin (36)
• Jacobus Govaerts (81), Meer, Antwerpen, België

• 1729 » Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer († 1811)
• 1755 » Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War († 1813)
• 1780 » Piet Retief, South African ruler († 1838)
• 1793 » Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist († 1831)
• 1795 » Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist († 1856)
• 1815 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist († 1902)
• 1817 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith († 1892)
• 1833 » Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist († 1887)
• 1840 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker († 1917)
• 1842 » John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)

• 1667 » Hans Nansen, Danish politician (b. 1598)
• 1671 » Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (b. 1612)
• 1742 » Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1793 » Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
• 1793 » Lord George Gordon, English politician (b. 1751)
• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)

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. Aaltje
15. Elizabeth
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)
• March 8 » Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
• April 13 » American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
• June 14 » The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
• October 4 » American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
• October 6 » American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
• 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.

The temperature on November 12, 1777 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent helder.