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• Anna Francisca Bomhals, Dendermonde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen († 1860)
• Cornelis Klaasz Winder, Avenhorn, Nederland († 1832)
• Anna Maria Willemsen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis WINDER, Averhorn († 1832)
• Cornelis Nannesz. Groot, Andijk, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1825)
• Carl Christoph Zierold, Wildenfels († 1854)
• Catharina Evers, Hilvarenbeek
• Antonius Marivoet, Puurs-Sint-Amands (Ruisbroek), Antwerpen, België
• Cornelis Nannesz Groot, Andijk († 1825)
• Cornelis Winder, Avenhorn († 1832)

• Isabella Clara Brijs (1), Temse
• Catharine van Kerkvoort, Zaamslag, Zeeland, The Netherlands
• Janneke Pieters' Beets (81), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Engele Beskers (39), Winterswijk
• Engele Beskers (39), Huppel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jacobus van Wijk (1), Dussen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Jacob Pietersz Helburg, Katwijk
• Anna van Camp (58), Willebroek, Antwerpen, België
• Alexandre Aucoin (55), Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
• Fennetjen Pieterz (49), Oosterwolde, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1725 » Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal († 1801)
• 1757 » Pierre Augereau, French general († 1816)
• 1762 » Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch general, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies († 1818)
• 1772 » Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, and critic († 1834)
• 1775 » Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest, composer, and critic († 1844)
• 1790 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician, French Head of State († 1869)
• 1811 » Filippo Colini, Italian operatic baritone († 1863)
• 1821 » Sims Reeves, English tenor and actor († 1900)
• 1833 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize († 1896)
• 1845 » Will Carleton, American poet and journalist († 1912)

• 1765 » Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
• 1775 » Peyton Randolph, American lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
• 1777 » Samuel Foote, English actor and playwright (b. 1720)
• 1805 » George Duff, Scottish captain (b. 1764)
• 1805 » Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (b. 1758)
• 1805 » John Cooke, English captain (b. 1763)
• 1821 » Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752)
• 1835 » Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (b. 1775)
• 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
• 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Joannes
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Jean
14. John
15. Klaas
16. Abraham

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Catharina
7. Elisabeth
8. Joanna
9. Trijntje
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Elizabeth
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Adriana
16. Jannetje

• 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)
• April 16 » Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
• May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
• June 23 » American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
• November 5 » French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
• November 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
• December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York

The temperature on October 21, 1780 was about 8.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken.