About the day » Monday September 20, 1779Calender converter

• Adrien Joseph Pierart, Enghien, Hainaut, Belgique
• Antoine Jourguel, Salles-de-Belvès,24170,Dordogne,Nouvelle-Aquitaine,FRANCE
• Barend Jans Schaper, bovenkarspel († 1852)
• Anna Catharina Verhaert, Stabroek, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1837)
• Antje Pereboom, Roelofarendsveen
• Aaltje van Amerongen, Leersum, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1852)
• Aaltje (Attje) Fokkes Ozinga, Dokkum, Dongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1836)
• Anna Mechtildis Reijners, Schinveld, Niederlande
• Cornelis Klaasz de Leeuw, Oosterend (Texel, NH) († 1834)
• Ariaantje Hendriksd BONGAARS, Westmaas († 1782)

• Arij Dekkers (49), Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Andries Teunisz KRUITHOF (2), Mijnsheerenland
• George Farquhar (34), Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
• Cornelis Simonsz Patijn (1)
• Charlotte von dem Borne (61), Born
• Augustus (August) van der Sloot (72)
• Helena Gordijn, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Gerardus Jaspers (60), Merkelbeek,, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelis Twisk (53), Heemskerk
• Anna Crelis Priem, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1746 » Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer († 1786)
• 1758 » Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor († 1806)
• 1778 » Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer († 1852)
• 1800 » Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer († 1879)
• 1815 » Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania († 1869)
• 1819 » Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor († 1895)
• 1820 » John F. Reynolds, American general († 1863)
• 1831 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator († 1917)
• 1833 » Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1918)
• 1842 » James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist († 1923)

• 1684 » Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (b. 1634)
• 1793 » Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (b. 1764)
• 1803 » Robert Emmet, Irish commander (b. 1780)
• 1815 » Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725)
• 1839 » Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
• 1840 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
• 1845 » Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)
• 1852 » Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
• 1855 » José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
• 1863 » Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (b. 1785)

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)
• February 14 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
• June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
• June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• 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.
• October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

The temperature on September 20, 1779 was about 13.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken.