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• Allegonde van Son, Sint-Oedenrode
• Anna Maria Weits, Farmsum
• Aaltje van de Zijl, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1855)
• Adriana der Kinderen, Oirschot, NL
• Allegonda van Son, Sint-Oedenrode († 1840)
• Berendina Margrita Grevenstuk, Arnhem († 1850)
• Berendina Bisschop, Hengelo, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Bastiaan Gerritsz de Rooij, Dussen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barbara Tausch, Lenneplätze,Altastenberg, Kreis Brilon
• Agnes Savelkoul, Obbicht en Papenhoven, Oostenrijks Opper-Gelre († 1777)

• Ariaantje Ariens Boer (63), Barendrecht
• Antonia van der Velden (40), Helmond (NL)
• Catherine HOSKINS (CAVENDISH) (77), Chatsworth, Derby, England
• Berendina BISSCHOP, Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Verlinden (71), Leest, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Anna Ricciarda d'Este (41)
• Friedrich Rothenpieler (1), Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Catherine Hoskins "Duchess of Devonshire" (77), All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire, England
• Catherine (Duchess of Devonshire) Hoskins (78), Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England
• ariaantje arijsdr BOER (63), barendrecht

• 1735 » Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician († 1811)
• 1737 » Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician († 1794)
• 1745 » Carl Stamitz, German violinist and composer († 1801)
• 1753 » Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and rebel leader († 1811)
• 1786 » John Vianney, French priest and saint († 1859)
• 1815 » Edward Tompkins, American lawyer and politician († 1872)
• 1818 » Samuel Leonard Tilley, Canadian pharmacist and politician, 3rd Premier of New Brunswick († 1896)
• 1821 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist († 1885)
• 1824 » William Walker, American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary († 1860)
• 1825 » George Bruce Malleson, English-Indian colonel and author († 1898)

• 1766 » Samuel Chandler, English minister and author (b. 1693)
• 1773 » Ali Bey al-Kabir, Egyptian sultan (b. 1728)
• 1781 » Richard Jago, English priest and poet (b. 1715)
• 1782 » Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
• 1785 » Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1719)
• 1785 » Pietro Longhi, Italian painter (b. 1701)
• 1788 » Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1723)
• 1794 » Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (b. 1743)
• 1819 » Kamehameha I, king of the Hawaiian Islands
• 1822 » John Stark, American general (b. 1728)

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)
• 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.
• April 26 » Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
• September 26 » American Revolution: British troops occupy Philadelphia.
• October 6 » American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
• October 22 » American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.

The temperature on May 8, 1777 was about 10.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: omtrent helder.