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• Antonius van Hooren_, Heijthuijsen
• Aaltjen Schiphorst, Zuid-Loo {OV} (Bathmen)
• Aaltje Krijns' Vinke, Doornspijk († 1829)
• Anthony Zwier BOON, Barsbeek
• Anna Hofmans, Malderen
• Aafje Mooijboer, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1794)
• Adrianus Nobele, Raamsdonk
• Aaltjen Krijns Vinke, Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Hofmans, Malderen
• Arend Siebes de Haan

• Geeske Hindriks (60), Wymeer, Duitsland
• Frederik Joosten de Zeeuw (1)
• Gertrud Hesse (0), Langewiese, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Fredrik Joosten (de) Zeeuw (1), Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Helena van Dijk (73), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dora WESTENDORP (40), Gendringen, Nederland, Gelderland, Megchelen
• Cornelis Westmaas (30), Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Sofie van Promnitz (71)
• Georg Philipp Friedrich von Bothmer (57)
• Agnes Sophia van Promnitz-Sorau (71)

• 1740 » Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general († 1817)
• 1754 » Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. († 1825)
• 1788 » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic († 1853)
• 1815 » Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet and historian († 1894)
• 1820 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer († 1893)
• 1828 » Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general († 1895)
• 1834 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty († 1904)
• 1835 » Elisha Gray, American businessman, co-founded Western Electric († 1901)
• 1861 » Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist and academic († 1944)
• 1865 » Irving Babbitt, American academic and critic († 1933)

• 1769 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1689)
• 1788 » Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1799 » Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)
• 1815 » Guillaume Brune, French general and politician (b. 1763)
• 1823 » Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)
• 1834 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (b. 1793)
• 1849 » Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ottoman Albanian commander (b. 1769)
• 1854 » Heinrich Clauren, German author (b. 1771)
• 1859 » Horace Mann, American educator and politician (b. 1796)
• 1876 » "Wild Bill" Hickok, American sheriff (b. 1837)

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)
• January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
• 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.
• August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
• September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
• December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

The temperature on August 2, 1791 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.