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• Antonie van Dongen, Made en Drimmelen († 1860)
• Cornelis van Lierop, Hillegom-Zuid-Holland-Nederland
• Adriana Huijsmans, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1865)
• Brigitte Nadeau († 1868)
• Carolus Ludovicus Sterckx, Meise († 1846)
• Aaltjen Smeenk, Hengelo (Gld), Netherlands
• Antonis Antonij van Eeckelen, Nispen-Essen
• Anne Catherine Bulens, Winksele, 3020, België
• Clara Catharina Elisabeth Korte, Dinker, 59514, Duitsland
• Antonius van Dongen, Made en Drimmelen

• Ludovicus - Sosa BLOEM (52), Letterhoutem, 9521, Sint-Lievens-Houtem, Oost-vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, België
• Jacoba Versteeve (87), Schiedam
• Helena DE ROOS, Amsterdam, Nieuwe Zijds Kapel
• Jan Asselman (12), Almen / Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ludovicus Bloem (52), Letterhoutem,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Joannes GILISSEN, Diepenbeek, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Femmetje Verkuijl (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Janse Stoel (28)
• Joannes Norbertus RAEVESCHOT (Raveschot) (48), Roeselare
• Margaret Cabot (76), Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

• 1756 » James Gillray, English caricaturist and printmaker (d.1815)
• 1764 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general († 1813)
• 1790 » William Wentworth, Australian journalist, explorer, and politician († 1872)
• 1803 » Vladimir Odoyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic († 1869)
• 1814 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer († 1874)
• 1818 » Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and suffragist († 1893)
• 1819 » Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist († 1903)
• 1820 » George Grove, English musicologist and historian († 1900)
• 1823 » Goldwin Smith, English-Canadian historian and journalist († 1910)
• 1831 » Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer († 1902)

• 1686 » Louis Maimbourg, French priest and historian (b. 1610)
• 1721 » Jacques Lelong, French priest and author (b. 1665)
• 1744 » John Cruger, Danish-American businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of New York City (b. 1678)
• 1749 » Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (b. 1719)
• 1766 » Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (b. 1726)
• 1795 » Ahilyabai Holkar, Queen of Indore (b. 1725)
• 1826 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)
• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)

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)
• February 4 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
• September 15 » The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
• September 25 » The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.
• October 2 » The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
• October 5 » French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
• November 21 » North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.

The temperature on August 13, 1789 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.