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• Arent Klasen Herder, Vinkega, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1847)
• Betse Wytzes Feenstra, Oosterlitens († 1780)
• bastiaan VLEGGAART
• Anna Maria Angela - Engel - Angela Crämering, Altharen, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1829)
• Anna Maria Van De Wauwer, Boom, Antwerpen, Belgie. akte († 1866)
• Cornelia Jasperse, 's-Heer Arendskerke († 1819)
• Anna Maria Van de Wauwer, Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Dieuwke Watzes
• adriana petronilla, etten-leur, brabant
• Augustin Folens, Oostrozebeke († 1814)

• Leentje Pieters Kooiman (72), Andijk, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Adriaen JANSSENS (90), Boechout,2530,Antwerpen,Vlaanderen,BELGIË
• Arie Paulusse Brand (67), Giessen-Oudekerk
• jan mondeling, oostvoorne (zuid holland)
• Katharina Bender (2), Mollseifen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Leentje Pieters' Cooyman (72), Andijk
• Lambertus van Egmond (3), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Elkanah Morgan (22), Ledyard, New London County, Connecticut, United States of America
• Elizabeth Belderman, Utrecht
• Anna Maria Pauls (Pauwels) (25), Vortum, Duitsland

• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)
• 1827 » Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum († 1921)
• 1831 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone († 1900)

• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)

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.
• August 16 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
• September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
• October 7 » American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
• 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 May 16, 1780 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.