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• Adriaan Nolet, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland († 1855)
• Aleida Catharina Wessels Noordhuis, Ruinen († 1837)
• aalbertje jansdr. KOSTER, pernis († 1821)
• Albertjen Davids Vinke, IJsselmuiden († 1781)
• Agatha van der Haak, Den Haag († 1781)
• Adriana Korteknie, Kats († 1846)
• Aartjen Harmsen van de Kuit, Ermelo
• Aaltje Remmits van Keeren, Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands
• Anthonij Julianus Bor, Amsterdam
• Anna Baelemans, Zundert,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1848)

• Geertje Jansdr Meijster (64), Noordwijk (Zuid-Holland NL)
• Elisabeth Ursula Woutersz. (73), Jaffna, Sri Lanka
• Darius Lippincott (53), Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
• Elisabeth Ursula Wouterszn (73), Jaffnapatnam, Ceylon
• Cornelis Augustinus de Roij (26)
• Dorothea Van Vlassenroot (0), Hamme
• Jacobus Claessens (40), Sint-Gillis-Waas, O-vl, BE
• Geertje Jansdr. Meijster (64), Noordwijk, ZH, Nederland
• Frans Arisz Brabander (11), Wateringen
• Albertus De Meester (52), Jette

• 1746 » Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer († 1786)
• 1758 » Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor († 1806)
• 1778 » Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer († 1852)
• 1800 » Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer († 1879)
• 1815 » Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania († 1869)
• 1819 » Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor († 1895)
• 1820 » John F. Reynolds, American general († 1863)
• 1831 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator († 1917)
• 1833 » Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1918)
• 1842 » James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist († 1923)

• 1684 » Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (b. 1634)
• 1793 » Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (b. 1764)
• 1803 » Robert Emmet, Irish commander (b. 1780)
• 1815 » Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725)
• 1839 » Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
• 1840 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
• 1845 » Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)
• 1852 » Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
• 1855 » José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
• 1863 » Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (b. 1785)

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. Catharina
7. Joanna
8. Elisabeth
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Antje
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
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 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• February 6 » American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
• February 14 » The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USSRanger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
• July 3 » American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
• August 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
• September 7 » American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.

The temperature on September 20, 1778 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.