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• Antonia Johanna Sacherias Niel, Lochum († 1881)
• Anthonia Johanna Zacharias Niel, Lochem († 1881)
• Antonia Bosman, Wijk bij Duurstede († 1849)
• Aldegondis Geurs, Breda († 1854)
• Aalberdina Gerritsen, Angerlo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1865)
• Alardus Beumer, Rotterdam († 1791)
• Angelica BENS, Tessenderlo Belgie († 1868)
• Aaldert Willem van Erkel, Tiel († 1855)
• Anna Catharina Josepha PANHAUSEN, Kerkrade, Nederland († 1882)
• Anthonij Abramsz Quist, Tholen ZL († 1870)

• Jacobus Ploeger (2), Twisk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Wander (0), Hekelingen, Nederland
• Charles Collier (25)
• Berendina Ramaker (54), Dinxperlo
• Aard Peters van den HURK (38), Beek en Donk, 3302, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Lendent Helmer (103), Canajoharie, Montgomery, New York, United States
• Eleazer Leland (73), Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• Jacob Klaasz Ploeger alias Speck (1), Twisk
• Antie Oedses (79)
• Johannes de Swart (7), Chaam

• 1758 » James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States († 1831)
• 1761 » Marie Harel, French cheesemaker († 1844)
• 1765 » Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic († 1834)
• 1819 » Ezra Abbot, American scholar and academic († 1884)
• 1827 » William Hall, Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient († 1904)
• 1838 » Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate († 1913)
• 1848 » Ludvig Schytte, Danish pianist, composer, and educator († 1909)
• 1854 » Hertha Marks Ayrton, Polish-British engineer, mathematician, and physicist. († 1923)
• 1855 » José Malhoa, Portuguese painter († 1933)
• 1863 » Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician, 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1933)

• 1726 » Thomas Pitt, English merchant and politician (b. 1653)
• 1741 » Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (b. 1668)
• 1772 » Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician and politician (b. 1737)
• 1781 » Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (b. 1723)
• 1813 » Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
• 1816 » Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1762)
• 1841 » Peter Chanel, French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1803)
• 1853 » Ludwig Tieck, German author and poet (b. 1773)
• 1858 » Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist (b. 1801)
• 1865 » Samuel Cunard, Canadian-English businessman, founded Cunard Line (b. 1787)

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. John
16. Leendert

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)
• 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.
• March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
• 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 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
• August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
• September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.

The temperature on April 28, 1791 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.