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• Annigje van Bemmel, Jutphaas, Utrecht, Nederland († 1794)
• Adriana Waaijers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1858)
• Charles Rhodes Elliot, Connecticut or Massachuesets († 1855)
• D. Joanna Augusta Spinola Meneses, Porto da Cruz, Madeira, Portugal
• 0052 Persoon († 1789)
• Carolina Zandman, nijmegen († 1861)
• Akke Alberts Hempenius, Franeker, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1847)
• Dieuwertje Willems KLEIJN, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1866)
• Adam Joseph KIRSCHENHEITER, Éguelshardt,57230,Moselle,Lorraine,FRANCE († 1844)
• Anna Maria Baert, Hontenisse († 1864)

• Adolf Jansz Gutter (76)
• Jacob Hendrix, Helden
• Cornelis Jansz Over (43), Oude Niedorp
• David Minge (43), Charles City, Charles, Virginia, United States
• Gerrit Dirks Kamphuis, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Georg Habersang (77), Marksuhl, Thüringen, Duitsland
• Egbert Janse Valckerink, Egmond-Binnen
• Cornelis Jansz Over (43), Oude Niedorp
• Angse Gijsbertsz Ouwehand (62), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• 3810 Persoon (0)

• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)
• 1827 » Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum († 1921)
• 1831 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone († 1900)

• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)

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. John

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Catharina
6. Trijntje
7. Marie
8. Joanna
9. Elisabeth
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
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 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• April 21 » George Washington's reception at Trenton is hosted by the Ladies of Trenton as he journeys to New York City for his first inauguration.
• 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.
• April 30 » On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
• September 26 » George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
• October 3 » George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.

The temperature on May 16, 1789 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.