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• Aaltje Adriaanse DRIJVER, Zunderdorp,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1861)
• Antonius Scholte, De Rijp
• Frans SWEIJGERS, Dordrecht
• Cornelis Aarts Veenendaal, Hilversum († 1828)
• Delphina De Vliegher, Koewacht
• Catharina Hilgonda Booij, Westzaandam († 1873)
• Fimke Jans Schrijfsma, Nieuwehorne, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1871)
• dirkje witman, ouddorp (goeree overflakkee) († 1823)
• Everardus Janissen, Swalmen († 1864)
• anna Ardon (ardonne), willemstad

• Hendrik (41), Putten
• Anne Marie MONFORT, LORCE (Targnon), Liège, Belgique
• Augustinus Mariman (21), Sinaai, België
• Aleijda Aleven (48), Westervoort, Gelderland, Nederland
• Helena Melsen Breugelmans (68), Wouw, Netherlands
• Adrianus Dekkers (28), Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Henrich Husmann (46), Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Harmanus Wesselink (71), Vorden (Bronckhorst)
• Casimirus Xaverius Hoste (0), Sint-Pieters-Op-de-Dijk
• Helena Joanna Melchior Cornelissen Breugelmans (68), Wouw (Nl)

• 1759 » William Pitt the Younger, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1806)
• 1763 » Manuel Alberti, Argentinian priest and journalist († 1811)
• 1764 » Edward Livingston, American jurist and politician, 11th United States Secretary of State († 1836)
• 1779 » Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer († 1852)
• 1807 » Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American paleontologist and geologist († 1873)
• 1818 » P. G. T. Beauregard, American general († 1893)
• 1836 » Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist and academic († 1918)
• 1836 » Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor († 1916)
• 1837 » George Ashlin, Irish architect, co-designed St Colman's Cathedral († 1921)
• 1837 » Tony Pastor, American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner († 1908)

• 1747 » Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author (b. 1715)
• 1750 » Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
• 1787 » Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1719)
• 1805 » Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer (b. 1743)
• 1808 » Richard Hurd, English bishop (b. 1720)
• 1811 » Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1742)
• 1831 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish-English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 » Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
• 1849 » Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 » Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian and politician (b. 1808)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Joanna
8. Trijntje
9. Grietje
10. Neeltje
11. Marie
12. Aaltje
13. Adriana
14. Antje
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 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
• February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
• July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
• July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
• August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
• December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

The temperature on May 28, 1791 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: helder.