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• Cornelia Crusio, Bergen op Zoom († 1836)
• Anna Maria ten Dall, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Benjamin Hobson (Rev.) (3rd GGF), Sheffield, Kingdom of England († 1848)
• Anna Maria Wouters, Werchter
• Berendina Derksen van den Brink, Renkum, Nederland
• Abram Cornelisz. Plooster, Abbenbroek
• Berendina Maassen van den Brink, Renkum
• Adriana Maria ten Dall, ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands († 1866)
• Anna Margaretha Tophoff, Burgsteinfurt
• Adriana Maria Elissen, Tilburg († 1834)

• Chauncey Colton (1)
• Geertruij Dingemans Swaluwenaar (88), Hellevoetsluis
• Johannes Gillisse NIJPJES (74), Stad aan 't Haringvliet
• Abigail Morse (0), Nova Scotia, Canada
• Harmen Lubberts Ganzenebbe, Vaassen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Valkenaers (ook genaamd Vekemans) (70), Tilburg, Nederland
• Joanna Van Impe (40), Meire
• Johannes Philipp Seeber (40), Sankt Martin, Edekoben, Landau in der Pfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
• Harmen Lubberts Ganzenebbe, Vaassen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Hendrik Stertzenbach (0), Doesburg

• 1750 » Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor († 1825)
• 1754 » François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general and engineer († 1833)
• 1774 » Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician († 1809)
• 1792 » John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1878)
• 1803 » Nathan Clifford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 19th United States Attorney General († 1881)
• 1807 » B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia († 1893)
• 1819 » Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia († 1876)
• 1822 » Isaac P. Rodman, American general and politician († 1862)
• 1830 » Franz Joseph I of Austria († 1916)
• 1831 » Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician († 1931)

• 1648 » Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1615)
• 1683 » Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
• 1707 » William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1640)
• 1712 » Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1660)
• 1765 » Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
• 1815 » Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
• 1823 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)

• 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)
• June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
• 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.
• 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 16 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
• September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

The temperature on August 18, 1779 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: zeer betrokken.