About the day » Monday May 31, 1779Calender converter

• Catharina Maas, Cromvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1856)
• Genovieve Braem, Lombardsijde, België († 1830)
• Bernhard Joseph Trostel, Heutingsheim, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland († 1835)
• Gergjen Jans Boeve, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland († 1814)
• Claas Jacob Smit, wormer († 1841)
• Antonius Holierhoek, Vlaardingen († 1846)
• Cornelius van Broeckhooven, Udenhout
• Diederik Willem Pinket van Haak, Batavia,, Nederlands-Indië († 1840)
• Bart, Voorthuizen
• Dorothea van Gaans, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1784)

• Marie Anne Thérèse Sevys (36)
• jacobus cornelisz de KOOMEN (85), mijnsheerenland
• Maria Cromvoort (83), Loon op Zand
• Germain Girouard (68), St Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
• John Drayton (66), Berkeley, South Carolina
• Norbert van AMELSVOORT (60), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Norbert van Amelsfort (60), Tilburg
• jacobus cornelisz de koome (85), mijnsheerenland (zuid holland)
• Elisabeth Minten (69), Venray
• Dirk Cornelisse Van NOORD (25), Pernis

• 1725 » Ahilyabai Holkar, Queen of the Malwa Kingdom under the Maratha Empire († 1795)
• 1732 » Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop († 1812)
• 1753 » Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French lawyer and politician († 1793)
• 1754 » Andrea Appiani, Italian painter and educator († 1817)
• 1773 » Ludwig Tieck, German poet, author, and critic († 1853)
• 1801 » Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and scholar († 1887)
• 1815 » Adye Douglas, English-Australian cricketer and politician, 15th Premier of Tasmania († 1906)
• 1818 » John Albion Andrew, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Massachusetts († 1867)
• 1819 » Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist († 1892)
• 1827 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine († 1903)

• 1740 » Frederick William I of Prussia (b. 1688)
• 1747 » Andrey Osterman, German-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1686)
• 1809 » Jean Lannes, French general (b. 1769)
• 1809 » Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1732)
• 1831 » Samuel Bentham, English architect and engineer (b. 1757)
• 1832 » Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1811)
• 1837 » Joseph Grimaldi, English actor, comedian and dancer, (b. 1779)
• 1846 » Philip Marheineke, German pastor and philosopher (b. 1780)
• 1847 » Thomas Chalmers, Scottish minister and economist (b. 1780)
• 1848 » Eugénie de Guérin, French author (b. 1805)

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)
• 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).
• August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• September 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
• September 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
• September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

The temperature on May 31, 1779 was about 14.0 °C. There was 376 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer half bewolkt. Special wheather fenomena: .