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• Anna Catharina Reinders († 1812)
• Adrianus de Carpentier, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1845)
• Anna Vuijk, Rotterdam († 1782)
• Andries Anthonisse, Bruinisse, Zeeland, Nederland († 1829)
• Adriana De Ridder, Willige Langerak, Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Leeuwenburg, Klaaswaal († 1841)
• Aldegonde Swinkels, Aarle-Rixtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1845)
• Adriaan van Zwet, Delft
• Adriaan de Carpentier, Alkmaar, Nederland († 1845)
• Aldegonda. Swinkels, Aarle-Rixtel, Nederland († 1845)

• Anna Catharina Block (74), Boom
• Anna Maria Schoenmaeckers (0), Roermond
• Anne MARGERIE (1), Niort-la-Fontaine
• Aagje Teunisdr Boer (71), Sliedrecht
• Berent Reintjes (47)
• Anna Maria Kammerer (58), Graben, Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, H.R.E
• Ariaantje Teunisdr Boer (71), Sliedrecht
• Ariaantje Teunisd Boer (71), Sliedrecht, zh.nld
• Admiral Vere 1st Baron Vere Beauclerk (82), Westminster, London, London, England, United Kingdom
• Anna Catharina Block (74), Boom, 2850, België

• 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. Pieter
4. Joannes
5. Hendrik
6. Cornelis
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jean
12. Jacobus
13. Dirk
14. Klaas
15. John
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Joanna
7. Elisabeth
8. Catharina
9. Trijntje
10. Adriana
11. Neeltje
12. Grietje
13. Antje
14. Elizabeth
15. Aaltje
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)
• January 1 » American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
• January 6 » In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
• April 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
• September 8 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
• October 17 » American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
• October 20 » The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria.

The temperature on October 21, 1781 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken.