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• Anna Catharina Rutte, Maastricht († 1833)
• Anne Cornelis van der Meulen, Ureterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1857)
• Adriana Suijkerbuijk, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1852)
• Antonius Janssen, Ottersum († 1832)
• Arien Klaver, Opmeer († 1855)
• Antonius Franciscus Hellemons, Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catherine GOISLARD, Chateauvieux 41 († 1822)
• Anthonie de Bie, Uden († 1822)
• Augustinus Schelfhout, Belsele (Oost-Vlaanderen, België) († 1814)
• Antje Jans van Baar, Beemster, Nederland († 1858)

• Johannes Dörr (1), Banfe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• doodgeboren dochter een van drieling MOURIS (0), oud-beijerland
• Anna D'Joos (1), Geel, Belgie
• Deborah Horton (79), Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Jacob D'Hoore (76), Knesselare, BE
• Hendrik Welberg
• Fredericus VAN Haver (25), STEKENE
• Anna Dobbels (75), Egem
• Cornelia Heusden (Heusen) (48)
• Ariën Molle (53), Aalst, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)
• 1827 » Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum († 1921)
• 1831 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone († 1900)

• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Joanna
7. Catharina
8. Elisabeth
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Antje
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Adriana
15. Elizabeth
16. Janna

• 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 6 » New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• July 3 » American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
• July 27 » American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
• August 3 » The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
• August 26 » The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
• August 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.

The temperature on May 16, 1778 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.