About the day » Sunday September 26, 1779Calender converter

• Aaltje Cornelisdr van der Zwan, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1843)
• Adrianus Melis, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1820)
• Adriaan Reijntjens, Ulicoten († 1846)
• Albert Menses, Ter Apel (GR NL) († 1780)
• Aagjen Moraal, Wanneperveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Abel Luppes Engelkes, Blijham (gem. Westerwolde) († 1836)
• Adrianus Ammeraal, Stad aan 't Haringvliet, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Hordijk, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Reijntjens, Ulicoten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1853)
• Aaltje Cornelisdr van der Zwan, Katwijk aan den Rijn († 1843)

• Arnoldina Van Oeij (59), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Laenen (Heanen, Hanen), Sint Pieter
• Jan Cornelisz PIETERMAN (0)
• Arnoldina van Oeij Ooij (59), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jeroen Tollenaar, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Carolus KETELS (0), Zwevezele
• Cornelis Mosch (45), Enkhuizen
• Ann Dixon (55), New Castle County, Delaware, United States
• Catherine MARTIN, BRA-sur-LIENNE, Liège, Belgique
• Jean LEHUÉDÉ (3), Batz-sur-Mer,44740,Loire-Atlantique,Pays de la Loire,FRANCE

• 1750 » Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral († 1810)
• 1758 » Cosme Argerich, Argentinian physician († 1820)
• 1767 » Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor († 1835)
• 1774 » Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and environmentalist († 1845)
• 1783 » Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke, English politician and literary figure († 1858)
• 1791 » Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer († 1824)
• 1792 » William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand explorer and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand († 1842)
• 1820 » Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian philosopher, painter, and academic († 1891)
• 1840 » Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Premier of Quebec († 1923)
• 1843 » Joseph Furphy, Australian author and poet († 1912)

• 1716 » Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1666)
• 1764 » Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish monk and scholar (b. 1676)
• 1800 » William Billings, American composer and educator (b. 1746)
• 1802 » Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician and physicist (b. 1754)
• 1820 » Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (b. 1734)
• 1868 » August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
• 1877 » Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
• 1902 » Levi Strauss, German-American businessman, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (b. 1829)
• 1904 » John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1848)
• 1904 » Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese author and academic (b. 1850)

• 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).
• 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.
• 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 26, 1779 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.