About the day » Sunday September 19, 1779Calender converter

• Arij Jacobsz. Oversluisen, Vlaardingen († 1779)
• Albertus Alberts de Gunst, Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• "Petrus" Peter Peter, Oirschot en Best, NL († 1838)
• Anna Maria Nielsdatter († 1796)
• Anneken Jebbink, Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1851)
• Aagje Rijken, Kortenhoef,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1829)
• Anneken Kleijn Holte, Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1851)
• Anna Verbruggen, Oelegem († 1855)
• Aafje (Aagje) Rijken, Kortenhoef, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1829)
• Adrianus van der Lecq (van der Leck), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1815)

• Janneke Reinders (79), Bolsward
• Anna Catharina ten Brinck (54), Oeding (D)
• Geertruyd Jans Knol (0), Mastenbroek, Netherlands
• Cornelis Reijersz Dijt (79), De Westen (Texel), Nederland
• Anna Maria Haester Exter, Merkem,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Frans Cornelisz Boon (32), Den Burg (Texel, NH)
• Cornelis Reijerz. Dijt (79), De Westen, Texel
• Ewoud Hermanusz van Everdingen (0), Bennebroek
• Harmanus Bouwman (60), Waver, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Dirksz van Uijthoven (1), Sprang, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1749 » Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer († 1822)
• 1754 » John Ross Key, American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge († 1821)
• 1759 » William Kirby, English priest and entomologist († 1850)
• 1774 » Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist († 1849)
• 1778 » Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain († 1868)
• 1796 » Hartley Coleridge, English poet and author († 1849)
• 1802 » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor-President of Hungary († 1894)
• 1803 » Maria Anna of Savoy († 1884)
• 1811 » Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader († 1881)
• 1824 » William Sellers, American engineer, inventor, and businessperson († 1824)

• 1668 » William Waller, English general and politician (b. 1597)
• 1692 » Giles Corey, American farmer and accused wizard (b. c. 1612)
• 1710 » Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1644)
• 1812 » Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
• 1843 » Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1792)
• 1863 » Hans Christian Heg, Norwegian-American colonel and politician (b. 1829)
• 1868 » William Sprague, American minister and politician (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Robert Mackenzie, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1811)
• 1881 » James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, and the 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
• 1893 » Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1817)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Joanna
9. Adriana
10. Trijntje
11. Antje
12. Aaltje
13. Elizabeth
14. Grietje
15. Neeltje
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 11 » Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
• June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
• June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• June 24 » American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• July 16 » American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
• October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

The temperature on September 19, 1779 was about 12.0 °C. There was 51 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: hagel regen weerlicht donder.