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• Berendina Margrita Grevenstuk, Arnhem 13-289 († 1850)
• Adriana Janze van Eekelen, Etten, No. Brab., Neth († 1839)
• Bastiaan Gerritse de Rooij, Dussen († 1852)
• Bastiaan de Rooij, Dussen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1852)
• Anna Maria Heider, Schweich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany († 1803)
• Anna Maria Weits, Farmsum
• Allegonda van Son, Sint-Oedenrode († 1840)
• Aaltje van de Zijl, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1855)
• Allegonda van Son, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1840)
• Allegonda van Son, Sint-Oedenrode

• Catherine Hoskyns Of Oxted (77)
• Catharine HOSKINS
• Catherine Hoskins
• Gesina Mebben (69), Altharen, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Catharina Verheijen, Horst
• Friedrich Rothenpieler (1), Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Ariaantje arijsdr Boer (63), Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Elizabeth Thayer (63), Mendham, Morris, New Jersey, United States
• Freerk Martens Hoekstra (37), Grootegast, Groningen, Netherlands
• Bastiana Laban (68), Dordrecht

• 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)

• 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)
• April 13 » American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
• 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.
• October 6 » American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
• December 17 » American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States.
• December 19 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
• December 24 » Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

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