About the day » Thursday May 14, 1789Calender converter

• Cornelia van Maarschalkerweerd, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alexander Schings, Afden, Duitsland († 1851)
• Aartje Jacobs, Ede
• Cornelia de BRUIJN, Rotterdam
• Ellen Mollineux, Whiston Lancashire
• Annechien Meertens ter Borg, Borgercompagnie, Groningen, NL († 1817)
• Appolonia Schenk, Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1850)
• Clementina, Joanna von Holling, Beeck (Dld)
• Cornelius Boeren, Steenbergen
• Anne Marie GRIENENBERGER, Heiwiller, 68, Haut Rhin, Alsace, France († 1796)

• Jean Francois Joseph Senden (2), Tournai (B)
• Elisabeth Sleuters (77), Susteren, Limburg, Niederlande
• Jan Fijnvandraat (35), Harderwijk
• Elisabeth Hendriksd BRUGMAN (76), Amsterdam
• Jacob Frederick [equipagemeester] Lantsheer (Landsheer) (63), Koudekerke (Walcheren), Zeel, NL
• Jacob Maris (60), Heijningen, Nederland
• Anna Gertrud Strack (90), Landkreis Mettmann, Ratingen, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Hermanus du Pont (51), Stevensweert
• Eugène RAMBOUT (1), Brugge,8000,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Catherine Wechter (64), Freistroff, 57235, France

• 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. Hendrik
4. Pieter
5. Cornelis
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Klaas
14. Jean
15. Adrianus
16. Leendert

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Catharina
6. Trijntje
7. Marie
8. Joanna
9. Elisabeth
10. Grietje
11. Neeltje
12. Adriana
13. Antje
14. Aaltje
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)
• April 28 » Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
• July 11 » Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
• August 26 » The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
• September 24 » The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.
• October 2 » The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
• December 11 » The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.

The temperature on May 14, 1789 was about 15.0 °C. There was 88 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent helder.