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• Anna VALK, Nieuw Lekkerland († 1852)
• Adrianus van Laarhoven, Loon op Zand
• Anna Maria Angela Agnes? Aertmeijer, Mettingen, Pruisen, Duitsland
• Adrianus van Dam, Stad aan 't Haringvliet, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1837)
• Aderjanus van den Hoven, Capelle
• Aaltje Koops, Hoogeveen
• Adriaantje Barents Biesheuvel, Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna van den Poel, Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna van der Poel, Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Ana Joaquina do Pilar, Santo Amaro, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

• Cornelis Pietersz van Brummelen (12), Ameronge
• Adrianus van Ekkermond (44), Breda
• Joannes Hoetmaekers (61), Holtum, Born, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Klasina Koumans
• Christina Wendelboe (39), Amsterdam
• Joanna Havermans (80), Wortel (B)
• Cornelia Pieters BOUMAN (2)
• Johann Eberhard Altenhoff (64), Hagen-Sudenfeld, Fürstbistum Osnabrück
• Joannes Baptista Moelans (0), Dessel,Antwerpen,Belgium
• Catherine Jean Lambert XHROUET (85), SPA, Liège, Belgique

• 1722 » William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician († 1798)
• 1739 » Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire († 1819)
• 1742 » Richard Cosway, English painter († 1821)
• 1789 » William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician († 1868)
• 1818 » Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts († 1893)
• 1835 » Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher († 1902)
• 1846 » Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross († 1869)
• 1850 » Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet († 1919)
• 1851 » Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France († 1923)
• 1854 » Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group († 1920)

• 1660 » Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (b. 1591)
• 1660 » Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (b. 1599)
• 1701 » Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1659)
• 1714 » Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (b. 1633)
• 1752 » Carl Andreas Duker, German scholar and jurist (b. 1670)
• 1758 » Hans Egede, Norwegian-Danish bishop and missionary (b. 1686)
• 1872 » Thomas Sully, English-American painter (b. 1783)
• 1876 » Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
• 1879 » James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (b. 1831)
• 1923 » Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (b. 1880)

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

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

• 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 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
• May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
• August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
• August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
• September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
• November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).

The temperature on November 5, 1786 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.