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• maria van haastert, amsterdam
• Aart Dirkszn van Arnhem, Maurik († 1831)
• Catharina Kok, Enschede († 1851)
• Anna Elsabé van Omphal († 1826)
• Catharina Kok (Kock), Enschede († 1851)
• Antonij van der Zanden, Deurne,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1860)
• Andreas Ludwig Dörge, Berßel (Landkrs. Harz, Sachsen-Anhalt/Sassen-Anholt) († 1867)
• Antonia Everse, Sinoutskerke († 1848)
• Anna Elsabé Omphal, van, Tiel († 1826)
• Aaltje Blommesteijn, Oudewater († 1847)

• Cornelis Galenus Mr. Paspoort (55), Middelburg (Zeeland) NL
• Cornelis Galenus, Mr. Paspoort (55), Middelburg
• Cornelia Chunne (7), Kadzand, Zeeland, NL
• Cornelis Galenus Paspoort (55)
• Anna Margaretha Dierks (75)
• Anne Marie MELAN, STAVELOT, Liège, Belgique
• Cornelis Jacobsz Beers- (6), Alkmaar, Nederland
• Adriana Bacx (34), 's-Gravenhage
• Gerhardus ter Rhehorst (50), Amsterdam
• Hinderikus Franken (51), Winschoten (gem. Oldambt)

• 1706 » Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian pianist and composer († 1780)
• 1718 » Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-English painter and educator († 1784)
• 1743 » Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom († 1823)
• 1784 » Peter Vivian Daniel, American lawyer and jurist († 1860)
• 1815 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer († 1882)
• 1823 » Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician, President of Mexico († 1889)
• 1845 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)
• 1856 » Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France († 1951)
• 1860 » Queen Marau, last Queen of Tahiti (d.1935)
• 1862 » Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist († 1957)

• 1656 » Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
• 1731 » Daniel Defoe, English journalist, novelist, and spy (b. 1660)
• 1748 » Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman and translator (b. 1683)
• 1779 » Eleazar Wheelock, American minister and academic, founded Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
• 1794 » Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1719)
• 1852 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
• 1889 » Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)
• 1891 » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 » G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)

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. Adrianus
16. John

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Catharina
8. Elisabeth
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Antje
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Adriana
15. Elizabeth
16. Janna

• 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)
• January 18 » James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
• February 6 » New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• May 1 » American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
• July 4 » American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
• August 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
• November 26 » In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.

The temperature on April 24, 1778 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by east. Weather type: zeer betrokken.