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• Aalt Hendriksen Boone, Nunspeet
• Aalt Hendriks Boone, Nunspeet, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jaabje Bijkerk, Zwijndrecht
• Adriaan Saanen, Ammerstol, Bergambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1856)
• Abraham Jan Gerse, Noordgouwe, Nederland († 1851)
• adrianus moerman, brielle (zuid holland) († 1861)
• Aaltje van der Wal, Nieuwland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van den Tillard, Dinther
• Aalt van Dasselaar, Nunspeet († 1854)
• Arij Boonstoppel, Hardinxveld († 1847)

• Jonathan Hartwell (87)
• Henry Prentice (85), Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts
• Franz Schneider (49), Schwarzenau, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Alexandrine Charlotte van Westerholt (54), Enghuizen
• Charlotte Alexandrine van Westerholt (55), Huis Enghuizen
• Maria da Conceição Veloso (38), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Jan Teunissen ten Hove, Apeldoorn
• Charlotte Alexandrine, barones, van WESTERHOLT (54), Kasteel Enghuizen (Hummelo) Gelderland, Nederland
• Benjamin King (7)
• Carl Sigismund von Dörnberg (60), Schloss Hausen, Oberaula, Allemagne

• 1706 » Baldassare Galuppi, Italian harpsichord player and composer († 1785)
• 1741 » Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author († 1803)
• 1777 » Heinrich von Kleist, German author and poet († 1811)
• 1785 » Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet († 1866)
• 1792 » Lucas Alamán, Mexican politician and historian († 1853)
• 1804 » Mongkut, Thai king († 1868)
• 1822 » Midhat Pasha, Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1883)
• 1831 » Frederick III, German Emperor († 1888)
• 1836 » Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz († 1911)
• 1850 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic († 1935)

• 1678 » Jacob Jordaens, Belgian painter illustrator (b. 1593)
• 1739 » António José da Silva, Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705)
• 1744 » Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)
• 1770 » John Manners, Marquess of Granby, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1721)
• 1775 » Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
• 1817 » Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French pianist and composer (b. 1763)
• 1865 » Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
• 1871 » Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
• 1876 » Francis Preston Blair, American journalist (b. 1791)
• 1886 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796)

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)
• February 6 » New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
• July 27 » American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
• September 17 » The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe.
• November 11 » Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
• December 29 » American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

The temperature on October 18, 1778 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.