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• Andries Jans Tijema, Beetsterzwaag
• Aldert Dirksz Kuijt, Katwijk aan Zee († 1786)
• Adriana Arentse van den Berg, Delft († 1836)
• Anna Johanna Berkhout, Ooltgensplaat († 1830)
• Adriaan Trieller, Domburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adriana, Arendsdr van den Berg, Ruijven († 1836)
• ADRIANA VAN DEN BERG, DELFT († 1836)
• Adriana Arentsdr van den Berg, Delft, 5995, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1836)
• Agatha Spierdijk, Huisduinen († 1783)
• Anna Stearns

• Bernhard Joachim van Bülow Heer van Cammin (74), Wendelstorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Allegonda Susanne van Haersolte (76), Echten, De Wolden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Jans van den Brink (53), Soest
• Ariaantje Adriaansd Molendijk (28), Dubbeldam, zh.nld
• Albert Hindriks Boon
• Ariaantje Molendijk (28), Dubbeldam
• Jan Willem Reesink (0), Warnsveld
• Anna Maria HÄNEL (80), Weiterswiller,67340,Bas-Rhin,Alsace,FRANCE
• Allegonda Susanna VAN HAERSOLTE (76), Echten Drenthe Netherlands
• Gertrudis Vossen (73), Geulle

• 1740 » Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer and educator (probable; d. 1816)
• 1746 » Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer († 1818)
• 1763 » János Batsányi, Hungarian-Austrian poet and author († 1845)
• 1800 » John Brown, American activist († 1859)
• 1801 » Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English politician, founded the town of Fleetwood († 1866)
• 1814 » John Brougham, Irish-American actor and playwright († 1880)
• 1823 » Frederick Weld, English-New Zealand politician, 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1891)
• 1824 » Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, Polish apologist and author († 1896)
• 1825 » James Collinson, Victorian painter († 1881)
• 1836 » Ferdinand Monoyer, French ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart († 1912)

• 1736 » Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese judge and politician (b. 1658)
• 1745 » Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
• 1747 » John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish field marshal and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (b. 1673)
• 1760 » Nicolaus Zinzendorf, German bishop and saint (b. 1700)
• 1789 » Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (b. 1715)
• 1790 » William Clingan, American politician (b. 1721)
• 1791 » Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (b. 1737)
• 1805 » Friedrich Schiller, German poet, playwright, and historian (b. 1759)
• 1850 » Garlieb Merkel, Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)
• 1850 » Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Joanna
9. Adriana
10. Trijntje
11. Antje
12. Aaltje
13. Elizabeth
14. Grietje
15. Neeltje
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)
• January 11 » Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
• February 14 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
• May 13 » War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
• June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
• June 24 » American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• July 16 » American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.

The temperature on May 9, 1779 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen.