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• Arnold Joseph Janssen, Schinnen († 1862)
• Adriaan Hal van, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1805)
• Antonia Francisca Josepha Luys, Oostende
• Aaltje Jacobs Huisman, Dwingeloo († 1838)
• Ariaantje Hollaar, Nieuwenhoorn
• Aafje (Stafje) Kalisvaart, Vlaardingen († 1870)
• Anna van der Zwet, De Zilk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida STELLINGWERFF, Amsterdam († 1815)
• Anna Margaret Berk, Walpack, Sussex County, New Jersey († 1860)
• aart van neuren, fijnaart en heijningen (noord brabant) († 1830)

• Johanna Benjamins Straatman (77), Brielle
• Bastiaan Jansz Lans (1), Stormpolder
• Jenneken ter Bals (31)
• Hendrikje Crijnsd GOUDSWAARD (14)
• Jean-Baptiste Desautels (79), Longue-Pointe, Île de Montréal, Québec, Canada
• Gerardine Josephe Heloir (0), Troisvilles (F)
• Christiane Maergarethe FABER (56), Stuutgart
• Anna Maria DE BLOCK (59), Opwijk
• Jacobus Vermeiren (3), Loenhout (B)
• Elizabeth Waite (54)

• 1752 » Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist and author († 1828)
• 1752 » Timothy Dwight IV, American minister, theologian, and academic († 1817)
• 1761 » Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1816)
• 1771 » Robert Owen, Welsh businessman and social reformer († 1858)
• 1771 » Thomas Wedgwood, English photographer († 1805)
• 1781 » Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian and academic († 1873)
• 1794 » Fanny Imlay, daughter of British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft († 1816)
• 1814 » Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company († 1876)
• 1817 » Alexander Kaufmann, German poet and educator († 1893)
• 1820 » James Martin, Irish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of New South Wales († 1886)

• 1688 » Antoine Furetière, French scholar, lexicographer, and author (b. 1619)
• 1754 » Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright and producer (b. 1692)
• 1761 » Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710)
• 1847 » Fanny Mendelssohn, German pianist and composer (b. 1805)
• 1860 » Ludwig Bechstein, German author (b. 1801)
• 1873 » Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and author (b. 1797)
• 1878 » Ōkubo Toshimichi, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1830)
• 1881 » Mary Seacole, Jamaican-English nurse and author (b. 1805)
• 1889 » Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1809)
• 1893 » Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810)

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.
• June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
• August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).

The temperature on May 14, 1786 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: omtrent helder.