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• Ariaentie Jacobs BERCKEL, Schipluiden († 1830)
• Bernardus Kneppers, Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1855)
• Anna Maria de Bondt Bont, Goirle (Goirle) (Noord-Brabant) († 1864)
• Anna Maria De Bondt De Bont, Goirle († 1864)
• Ariaantje (Jaantje) Berkel, ,, Schipluiden, Nederland († 1830)
• Aaltje VAN REIN, Annen († 1834)
• Anna Pasman
• Ariaantje Berkel, Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1830)
• Aaltje Aalders van Rein, Annen, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1834)
• Aaltje Aalders van Rein, Anloo, Aa en Hunze, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1834)

• Arie Leendertsz Punt (81), willemstad (noord brabant)
• adriaen leendertsz PUNT (81), willemstad
• Anna Margaretha HETZLER (0), Münstermaifeld, Duitsland
• Hendrina Everts van den Brink (42), Stokkelaarsbrug (Ouder-Amstel), Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Geesken Blom (38), Steenderen
• Jacob Bremer (45)
• Elizabeth [2] Brann (35), Rolvenden, Kent, England, United Kingdom
• Egbertien Lucas (0), Zuidbarge, gem. Emmen, Nederland
• Hendrina Everts van den Brink (40), Stokkelaarsbrug, Ouder Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Francis Horsman (65), Foulshaw Lane, Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire West Riding

• 1742 » Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor and physiologist († 1809)
• 1758 » André Masséna, French general († 1817)
• 1758 » Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician († 1794)
• 1769 » Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany († 1824)
• 1769 » Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic († 1834)
• 1781 » Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher and author († 1832)
• 1797 » Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer († 1882)
• 1800 » Roman Sanguszko, Polish general († 1881)
• 1827 » Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician († 1891)
• 1836 » Max Eyth, German engineer and author († 1906)

• 1708 » François de Laval, French-Canadian bishop (b. 1623)
• 1757 » Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1683)
• 1757 » Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
• 1782 » Christine Kirch, German astronomer and academic (b. 1696)
• 1840 » Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (b. 1792)
• 1859 » Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
• 1862 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1877 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
• 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)

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)
• March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
• 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).
• March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
• 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.
• September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.

The temperature on May 6, 1791 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht.