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• Fokke Eenkema, Zeerijp
• Gottlieb Haller, Steinberg, Murrhardt, Württemberg, Germany († 1781)
• Fokke Cornelis Eenkema, Zeerijp
• Enneken Wensink, Dinxperlo († 1851)
• Agnes BERENDSEN, Etten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1864)
• Barbara Theresia WASTYN, Lauwe, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1781)
• Grietje Minnes Hoekstra, Tzummarum, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Frederik Johannes Petruszn Abresch, GRONINGEN, Groningen, Nederland († 1831)
• Cornelia SCHRIJNEMAEKERS, Rotterdam, Province of South Holland, Netherlands († 1854)
• Huijg Huijgenban, Aarlanderveen

• Friedrich Carl August ZUR LIPPE-BIESTERFELD (75), Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
• Cornelis Janse Bonenburg (Bonenburgh), Overschie
• Friedrich zur Lippe-Biesterfeld zur LIPPE (75)
• Cornelis Janse Bonenburgh (73), Overschie
• Friedrich Karl August van Lippe Detmold (75), Friedrichsruh, Duitsland
• Christiaan Schaap (60), Rotterdam-Zuiderkerkhof
• Friedrich Karl August zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (75), Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland
• Friedrich Karl August zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (75), Friedrichsruhe, 19374, Duitsland
• Francois Theodore Billau (60), Fretin, 59256, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Arij Man de (34), Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1759 » Ignaz Anton von Indermauer, Austrian nobleman and government official († 1796)
• 1777 » Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentinian priest and politician († 1849)
• 1796 » Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Czech-French actor and mime († 1846)
• 1800 » Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist and academic († 1882)
• 1803 » John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, co-designed the USS Princeton and the Novelty Locomotive († 1889)
• 1816 » George Henry Thomas, American general († 1870)
• 1826 » William S. Clark, American colonel and politician († 1886)
• 1835 » Henri Brisson, French lawyer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of France († 1912)
• 1835 » Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and explorer († 1903)
• 1836 » Vasily Sleptsov, Russian author and activist († 1878)

• 1693 » Willem Kalf, Dutch still life painter (b. 1619)
• 1726 » Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1695)
• 1750 » John V, king of Portugal (b. 1689)
• 1762 » Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander (b. 1711)
• 1781 » John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley, British parliamentarian (b. 1719)
• 1784 » Denis Diderot, French philosopher and critic (b. 1713)
• 1805 » Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian soldier (b. 1756)
• 1864 » Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
• 1875 » Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
• 1884 » Kiến Phúc, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1869)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Trijntje
10. Adriana
11. Neeltje
12. Grietje
13. Antje
14. Elizabeth
15. Aaltje
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 1 » The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.
• August 24 » American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
• September 4 » Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers.
• September 6 » The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
• October 19 » American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.
• November 29 » The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

The temperature on July 31, 1781 was about 22.0 °C. There was 598 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: .