About the day » Friday September 10, 1779Calender converter

• Catharina Van Craen, Schriek (Heist op den Berg)
• Dorothea Helena van Duijvenbroek, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Rauen, Düsseldorf, Eller, Rheinland, Deutschland († 1811)
• Bartold Henrich (Hindriks) Hunnersen, Schötmar, Bad Salzuflen, Lippe, Deutschland
• Antje Sipkes Algera, Tietjerk, Tietjerksteradeel, Fr, Nederland
• Barbara Neels, Melsele, België
• Adrianus Jochoms, Wuustwezel
• Dirk de Bruin, Bunschoten
• Anna Catharina Frijns, Einighausen, Limbricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus Jochems, Wuustwezel (B)

• Catharina Aredts (57), Bingelrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Adelaide Josephe Nollet (5), Menen, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Annechjen Reijnts (70), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna Samuel COHEN de FARO (70), Reusel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christoffel van der Linde, Amsterdam
• Aldegunde Mechtilde Gaeckels (1), Brempt (D)
• Aidelaide Josephe NOLLET (5), (F) Faubourg/Lille
• Aagje KLEINENDORST (64), De Mijl, Krabbe en Nadort
• Annegien Reynts Smit, Hoogeveen
• Annegien Reynts Smit (70), Hoogeveen

• 1753 » John Soane, English architect and academic, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall († 1837)
• 1758 » Hannah Webster Foster, American author († 1840)
• 1786 » Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico († 1854)
• 1786 » William Mason, American surgeon and politician († 1860)
• 1788 » Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author († 1868)
• 1793 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist († 1834)
• 1801 » Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner († 1881)
• 1821 » William Jervois, English captain, engineer, and politician, 10th Governor of South Australia († 1897)
• 1836 » Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician († 1906)
• 1839 » Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls († 1912)

• 1669 » Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
• 1676 » Gerrard Winstanley, English activist (b. 1609)
• 1748 » Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino nun, founded the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
• 1749 » Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
• 1759 » Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian missionary and explorer (b. 1703)
• 1797 » Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (b. 1759)
• 1842 » Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1842 » William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
• 1851 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American minister and educator (b. 1787)
• 1867 » Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1788)

• 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 » 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 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.
• 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.

The temperature on September 10, 1779 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: omtrent helder.