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• Carolus Eugenius DeFreyne, Woumen,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Cornelia Brekelmans, Berkel († 1816)
• Batholomeus Guijls Gruijls, Nieuwstadt
• Anna Theresia Vansteenkiste, Eernegem
• Christina Friderika Bauer, Großbottwar, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany († 1847)
• Andrina Aldegonda PIETERS, Tongeren, Limburg, België
• Anna Theresia Van de Weyer, Geel, 2440, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Baukje Wopkes DE VRIES, Veenwouden, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Carolus Judocus Maenhout, Oedelem (B) († 1856)
• Anna Elisabeth Van De Weyer, Olen († 1848)

• VAN CAPPELLEN (0), Humbeek,1851,Brabant Flamand,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Arie Gerritsz Stougie (61)
• Dorothea van Hesseling, Ravestein, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Franciscus Hendrickx, Pulderbos
• Antonius Laurentiusz van der Meijden (66), Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Daniel Perkins (40), Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth Roth (6), Aue, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Anna Margaretha SPRONG (36)
• Elisabeth Willibrordus van Hove (54), Wintelre
• Bethiah Philbrick * (67), Kensington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Verenigde Staten

• 1740 » Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician († 1810)
• 1759 » Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer († 1823)
• 1771 » Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg († 1820)
• 1772 » David Ricardo, British economist and politician († 1823)
• 1794 » William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams († 1863)
• 1797 » Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France († 1877)
• 1813 » James McCune Smith, African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author († 1865)
• 1819 » Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist († 1874)
• 1819 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor († 1895)
• 1838 » Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic († 1912)

• 1689 » George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1648)
• 1732 » Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660)
• 1742 » Arvid Horn, Swedish general and politician (b. 1664)
• 1763 » Marie-Josephte Corriveau, Canadian murderer (b. 1733)
• 1794 » Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
• 1796 » Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1732)
• 1802 » Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
• 1832 » Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)
• 1859 » Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
• 1864 » Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)

• 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 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
• September 3 » American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.
• September 19 » American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
• October 17 » American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
• November 17 » Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification.

The temperature on April 18, 1777 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.