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• Aaltien van Dalen, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1812)
• Aartje van der Meijden, Veenendaal (Utrecht) († 1861)
• Aaltien van Dalen
• Aaltien Hendriks van Dalen-, Hoogeveen, Nederland († 1812)
• Aaltje van GENT, Bleskensgraaf
• Adriaantje NACHENIUS, Hagestein
• Anna Roggeveen, Hilligersberg-Rotterdam
• Anna Jacobs Jakes, Huisduinen († 1812)
• Andries van Baak, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van Leeuwen, Zwammerdam († 1843)

• Johanna Versteeg (74), Loenen
• Anne Marie Francoise Corty (1), Brugge
• Jakob van der Ven, Vreeswijk
• Hiltje Gjalts (40)
• Elisabeth Hiddes Heremyt (56), Gorredijk, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Hendrik Teunisz. van der Meer (56), Wassenaar aangifte
• Martijntie Provoost (36), Haarlem
• Peeter Hendrix, Mill en Sint Hubert
• Maria Madelina MASIJN (76), Brugge (Belgie)
• Maria da Conceição de Mendonça (60), Acari, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil

• 1736 » Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer († 1803)
• 1740 » Matthias Claudius, German poet and author († 1815)
• 1769 » Napoleon, French general and emperor († 1821)
• 1771 » Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet († 1832)
• 1785 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author († 1859)
• 1787 » Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, American writer, editor, abolitionist († 1860)
• 1798 » Sangolli Rayanna, Indian warrior († 1831)
• 1807 » Jules Grévy, French lawyer and politician, 4th President of the French Republic († 1891)
• 1824 » John Chisum, American businessman († 1884)
• 1839 » Antonín Petrof, Czech piano maker († 1915)

• 1666 » Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary and astronomer (b. 1591)
• 1714 » Constantin Brâncoveanu, Romanian prince (b. 1654)
• 1728 » Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656)
• 1758 » Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698)
• 1799 » Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet and author (b. 1729)
• 1844 » José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (b. 1733)
• 1852 » Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760)
• 1859 » Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1907 » Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831)
• 1909 » Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (b. 1866)

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.
• 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.
• September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
• October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

The temperature on August 15, 1779 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by south. Weather type: betrokken omtrent helder.