About the day » Friday August 13, 1779Calender converter

• Adriana Cornelisse van den Ende, Poeldijk
• françois appollinaire MONTENEZ, Genly (Belgium) Hainaut
• Alexander Müller, Feudingen, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1806)
• Bregtje ( Pietersd) Neeltje Pieters de Jong, Oosthuizen, Zeevang, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1850)
• Gerarda Janssen, Eijmeren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bregje Pieters Jong († 1850)
• Catharina Johanna Guichenon de Chastillon, Den Haag († 1835)
• Frans Van Nieuwpoort, Vianen, Zeeland, Holland
• Freerk Klaasens Nienhuis, Ulrum, Groningen, Nederland († 1839)
• Ary den Riet, Gouda,Gouda,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1779)

• Geertjen Hendriks Vaandering (2), IJsselmuiden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Jan Cornelissen van Eck (87)
• Joanna Elisabeth Verpoorten, Nijlen
• Antje Jans (58), Groningen, Nederland
• Hendrikje IJsbrands VERHOEF (76), Woudenberg,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Clara Peeters (30), Oelegem
• Hendrikje IJsbrands Verhoef (76), Driebergen
• Joanna Gertrudis Joosten (0), Pannerden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Frank Boukesteijn (53), De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna de Jong (9), Dordrecht

• 1756 » James Gillray, English caricaturist and printmaker (d.1815)
• 1764 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general († 1813)
• 1790 » William Wentworth, Australian journalist, explorer, and politician († 1872)
• 1803 » Vladimir Odoyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic († 1869)
• 1814 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer († 1874)
• 1818 » Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and suffragist († 1893)
• 1819 » Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist († 1903)
• 1820 » George Grove, English musicologist and historian († 1900)
• 1823 » Goldwin Smith, English-Canadian historian and journalist († 1910)
• 1831 » Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer († 1902)

• 1667 » Jeremy Taylor, Irish bishop and saint (b. 1613)
• 1686 » Louis Maimbourg, French priest and historian (b. 1610)
• 1721 » Jacques Lelong, French priest and author (b. 1665)
• 1744 » John Cruger, Danish-American businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of New York City (b. 1678)
• 1749 » Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (b. 1719)
• 1766 » Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (b. 1726)
• 1795 » Ahilyabai Holkar, Queen of Indore (b. 1725)
• 1826 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)
• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)

• 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.
• July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
• 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 August 13, 1779 was about 21.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: zeer betrokken.