About the day » Wednesday June 23, 1779Calender converter

• Clara | Klara Zuijderwijk | Zuydewijk | Zuiderwijk, Monster († 1858)
• Anna Margareta Osthoff, Beckum (duitsland)
• Cornelia van Kempen, Millingen aan de Rijn, Nederland († 1864)
• Catherine Helene Honne, Beek, gemeente Beek, Limburg, Nederland († 1857)
• Catharina Helena Honne, Beek,, Limburg, Nederland
• Berend Jans Groenwold, Hellum gem. Slochteren († 1852)
• Cornelia de Koster, West Souburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1833)
• Cornelia de Koster, West-Souburg,, Zeeland, Nederland († 1833)
• Cornelis Berend Wassink, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berent Veurentjes, Doetinchem († 1847)

• Geertruij van den Bos (38), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Grace 1722 Arbuckle (57), Byberry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Lucie Vuets, Nijlen
• Antoine (Créqui Créquis) Aide dit Créquy (63), Québec, Québec, Canada
• Grietje Sipkes (84), Kuikhorne
• Cristobal Garro Zayas-Bazan (44)
• Joes Eggen (18), Wijnandsrade (L
• Euphemia Maria KUEL (64), Freren,, Niedersachsen, Duitsland
• Lambert Platteel (7), Leiden
• Frederike Kunegonde van Seherr-Thoss Vrouwe van Ober- en Nieder-Mechau (54), Mechau, Saksen-Anhalt

• 1711 » Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian instrument maker († 1786)
• 1716 » Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales († 1789)
• 1750 » Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist and academic († 1801)
• 1763 » Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon I († 1814)
• 1799 » John Milton Bernhisel, American physician and politician († 1881)
• 1800 » Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist († 1846)
• 1824 » Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and conductor († 1910)
• 1843 » Paul Heinrich von Groth, German scientist († 1927)
• 1860 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet and librarian († 1929)
• 1863 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian author and journalist († 1924)

• 1707 » John Mill, English theologian and author (b. 1645)
• 1733 » Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (b. 1672)
• 1770 » Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
• 1775 » Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and author (b. 1692)
• 1779 » Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1691)
• 1806 » Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1811 » Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, Portuguese poet and author (b. 1740)
• 1832 » Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (b. 1761)
• 1836 » James Mill, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1773)
• 1848 » Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1776)

• 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)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
• October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

The temperature on June 23, 1779 was about 15.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen.