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• Aafke Foekes (Foukes), Bakhuizen onder Mirns († 1855)
• Aart Confurius, Rotterdam († 1825)
• AALTJE VAN ZANTEN, 'S-GRAVENZANDE († 1805)
• Adrianus Eggermont, Hontenisse
• Alberta Feith, Epe
• Aaf Foukes, Warns († 1855)
• Aafke Foukes, Hindeloopen, Nederland († 1855)
• Aaltje Huisman, 's-Gravenzande
• Aaltje Klaasdr ROEST, Alphen, Nederland († 1854)
• 2. Gerritje Gerretje Gerrigje Hole Holl, Maartensdijk († 1819)

• Albertje Jans Flier (28)
• Dimpna van Heuckelom (48), Geel, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Gerardus Jansen van de Wijngaart (55), Veenendaal
• Godefridus STROUCKEN (71), Belfeld, Limburg, Netherlands
• Aaltjen (Aeltjen) Gerrits, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• George Byam (45), Antigua, Leeward Islands, British West Indies
• Anne Joseph THIRY (33), Couvin, Namur, Belgique
• Geertjen van der Meijden (68), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Elisabeth Wolfs (3), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Cornélius SUYS (1), Humbeek,1851,Brabant Flamand,Flandre,BELGIQUE

• 1728 » James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer († 1779)
• 1750 » Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer († 1819)
• 1787 » Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director († 1854)
• 1789 » Alfred Kelley, American legislator, canal builder, and railroad magnate († 1859)
• 1800 » Platt Rogers Spencer, American calligrapher and educator († 1864)
• 1805 » Thomas Brassey, English engineer and businessman († 1870)
• 1818 » Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician and physiologist († 1896)
• 1830 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer († 1907)
• 1832 » Andrew Dickson White, American historian, academic, and diplomat, co-founded Cornell University († 1918)
• 1838 » Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author and playwright († 1889)

• 1642 » Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English judge and politician, Lord High Treasurer of The United Kingdom (b. 1563)
• 1713 » Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• 1809 » Paul Sandby, English painter and cartographer (b. 1725)
• 1837 » Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister and journalist (b. 1809)
• 1862 » Bahadur Shah II, Mughal emperor (b. 1775)
• 1872 » Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1833)
• 1881 » John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
• 1906 » Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
• 1907 » Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman (b. 1881)
• 1913 » Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)

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 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
• March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
• June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
• June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and 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.
• October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

The temperature on November 7, 1779 was about 14.0 °C. There was 46 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: stofregen regen.