About the day » Tuesday September 21, 1779Calender converter

• Anna Marij Steijhof, ......... († 1826)
• Anna Sibilla Stassen, Spaubeek,, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Barbara SEGERS, Geel,2440,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1822)
• Clara Versteegh, Beesd
• Agnes, Angenietje Hamers, Rotterdam
• Catharina Eugenia Cecilia Callewaert, Klerken († 1779)
• Anna Sibilla STASSEN, Spaubeek, Limburg, Nederland
• Atje Joostes, Snikzwaag, Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1782)
• Adriaan Koenerding COK, Tiel, Gemeente Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1838)
• Elisabeth Menn, Erndtebrück, Kreis Wittgenstein

• Allegonda LEENEN, Beesel, Limburg, Netherlands
• Ana Maria Aerts (76), Sleidinge, België
• Dirk Claeszn CARMELCK (72), Monnickendam, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jacob Jans ten Napel (44), Ambt Vollenhove, Nederland
• Elizabeth Draper (67), Augusta, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Cornelisd Huijge (79), Heiloo
• Isabella Fortune Gibson (69), Augusta, Virginia, United States
• Anna Elisabeth van Beym (38)
• André Joseph MILCENDEAU (81), Soullans, 85300, France
• Jacob Jans ten Napel  (44), Vollenhove, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1706 » Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg († 1735)
• 1756 » John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer († 1836)
• 1758 » Christopher Gore, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 8th Governor of Massachusetts († 1827)
• 1760 » Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Minister of Justice for Imperial Russia († 1837)
• 1776 » John Fitchett, English poet († 1838)
• 1819 » Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois († 1864)
• 1840 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan († 1904)
• 1842 » Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire († 1918)
• 1846 » Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet († 1906)
• 1849 » Maurice Barrymore, American actor († 1905)

• 1709 » Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian statesman, Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (b. 1639)
• 1719 » Johann Heinrich Acker, German historian and academic (b. 1647)
• 1743 » Jai Singh II, Indian king (b. 1688)
• 1748 » John Balguy, English philosopher and author (b. 1686)
• 1796 » François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
• 1798 » George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Delaware (b. 1733)
• 1812 » Emanuel Schikaneder, German actor and playwright (b. 1751)
• 1832 » Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet (b. 1771)
• 1860 » Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (b. 1788)
• 1874 » Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (b. 1798)

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 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
• March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
• June 24 » American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar 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 September 21, 1779 was about 13.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.