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• Arij Hendriksz. Mooijman, Voorschoten († 1834)
• Anthonia Damen, Utrecht († 1852)
• Arend Jans van Raalte, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arendina Smies, Borculo
• Anneken Keller, Heerewaarden, Nederland
• Anne Marie DEBADTS, Hoecke
• Arnoldus Van der Lee, Enkhuizen
• Anna Dorst, Stavenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna RAMON, Zande (Koekelare), West-Vlaanderen, België
• Antonius van Alphen, Ginneken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Arij Simons van der Lee (50), Bleiswijk
• Ary van der Lee (50), Bleiswijk
• Aldegonda MEULEMEESTER (38), Zedelgem Belgie
• Andreas Hendrik Vrijheer Schütz van Pflummern (33)
• Cornelis Paulusse Den OUDEN (64), Lekkerkerk
• Christina Meering (69)
• Anna Dorst (3)
• Adriaan Jansen Heijbloem (76), 's-Gravenmoer
• Anna Hendriksd VREES (84), Rotterdam
• Catharina Laureyns (51), Lembeke

• 1717 » Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal († 1790)
• 1754 » Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1838)
• 1782 » Henri de Rigny, French admiral and politician, French Minister of War († 1835)
• 1786 » Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1856)
• 1802 » Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic († 1887)
• 1803 » Albert Sidney Johnston, American general († 1862)
• 1829 » Alfred Brehm, German zoologist and illustrator († 1884)
• 1829 » William Stanley, English engineer and philanthropist († 1909)
• 1841 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and hydrologist († 1912)
• 1842 » Julian Sochocki, Polish-Russian mathematician and academic († 1927)

• 1704 » Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician and academic (b. 1661)
• 1712 » Martin Lister, English physician and geologist (b. 1639)
• 1714 » John Sharp, English archbishop (b. 1643)
• 1723 » Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
• 1768 » Robert Smith, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
• 1769 » Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
• 1802 » Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1713)
• 1804 » George Walton, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1749)
• 1831 » Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (b. 1768)
• 1836 » Letizia Ramolino, Italian noblewoman (b. 1750)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Joannes
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Jean
14. John
15. Klaas
16. Abraham

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Catharina
7. Elisabeth
8. Joanna
9. Trijntje
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Elizabeth
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Adriana
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 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
• April 16 » Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
• May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
• June 23 » American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
• September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
• October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.

The temperature on February 2, 1780 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: omtrent helder.