About the day » Sunday May 16, 1779Calender converter

• Allegonda Margaretha Kemp, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert SANS, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1877)
• Anna Ariens Dijkshoorn, Schipluiden (ZH district VIII) NL
• Anna Esther Petronella van Halm, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1862)
• Anna Francisca Christiaens, St. Niklaas
• Aart de KOGEL, Groot Ammers († 1832)
• Anna Huber, Warwick, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States († 1861)
• Agatha Johanna Riem, Rijswijk († 1845)
• Abraham Apon, Rotterdam († 1780)
• Alida Hendriksdr Bekink, delfshaven († 1850)

• Anna Reisig (1), Stolberg, Rheinland (D)
• Anna Joanna Scherders (31), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Iebeltje Jelkes (34)
• Jonas Bach (73), Schweich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Maria Catharina Staudt (68), GERMANY
• Geertie Jacobsdr. van Rietbroeck (87), Wassenaar, ZH, Nederland
• Marie Anne Joseph SENECHAL (3), Roeulx,59172,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Franciscus De Cauwer (57), Nieuwkerken
• Gerritje Pieters van Os (15), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dingeman (jansz) van Oosterhout

• 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. 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 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
• 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 24 » American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
• September 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.

The temperature on May 16, 1779 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.