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• Antonius VUER, Leuven,3000,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE
• Antonius de Gouw, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1872)
• Andries Steketee, Sint-Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1857)
• Anna van de Laar, Beek en Donk
• Arij Vaandrager, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1875)
• Carol Benedict Depoorter, Esen
• Catharine Dierdorff, York County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1863)
• Ameliana Francisca WAERKELLE, Westkapelle,West Vlaanderen,BELGIE († 1862)
• Anna Groenendaal, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1865)
• Augustine Mayneaud de Pancemont († 1867)

• Anne Marie Willems (57), Geilenkirchen Bauchem, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Henrica Spreeuwenburgh (48), Schiedam,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• (69), Uphofen, Germany
• Anna van Musscher, Haarlem
• Hendricus van Aalderen (75), Zwolle
• Hendrina van Spreeuwenburg (48), Schiedam,-
• Eleanor Robbins (83), Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts
• George Christian Charles Sr (50), Somerset, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Bonaventure Debacker (60), Staden
• (2) Wijntje Gerritse van Doorn (40), Loenen, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland

• 1770 » Ludwig van Beethoven, composer († 1827)
• 1775 » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French pianist and composer († 1834)
• 1775 » Jane Austen, English novelist († 1817)
• 1776 » Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher († 1810)
• 1778 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier († 1841)
• 1787 » Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright († 1855)
• 1790 » Leopold I of Belgium († 1865)
• 1804 » Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 1889)
• 1812 » Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales († 1867)
• 1834 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and theorist († 1910)

• 1687 » William Petty, English economist and philosopher (b. 1623)
• 1751 » Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1700)
• 1774 » François Quesnay, French economist, physician, and philosopher (b. 1694)
• 1783 » Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer and educator (b. 1699)
• 1783 » Sir William James, 1st Baronet, Welsh-English commander and politician (b. 1720)
• 1805 » Saverio Cassar, Gozitan priest and rebel leader (b. 1746)
• 1809 » Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755)
• 1859 » Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist and author (b. 1786)
• 1892 » Henry Yesler, American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1810)
• 1897 » Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)

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)
• March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
• May 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
• July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
• August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
• September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.

The temperature on December 16, 1791 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.