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• Abraham Yeakel Schultz
• Anna Dorfmulder, Nijkerk
• anthonij GROENENBERG, piershil († 1820)
• Ann Frost, Bodham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom († 1786)
• Adriaan de Bas, Schelluinen
• Aafje Bogert, Everdingen
• Anthony Groenenberg, Piershil
• Aleijda Christina Elshof, Doetinchem (GD) († 1824)
• Aart Stevens Visscher, Hattem, Nederland († 1857)
• Albert Hendriks Schonewille, Hoogeveen

• Anthoon Sandbrinck (1763)
• Lorenz Glatz (34), Schweighausen Dtsl
• Joanna Van Massenhoven (45), Merksplas
• Georg Achenbach (0), Erndtebrück, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Jan REMMERS (41), Aduard, Zuidhorn, Groningen, Nederland
• Geertje Cornelis Vlaanderen (1), Hilversum, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Louis Denis dit St Denis (42), Ste-Geneviève-de-Pierrefonds (Montréal), Montréal, Québec, Canada
• Anna Maria Lena (0)
• Joanna Roeffen (8), Bladel
• Luiz de Freitas Villalva (54), Ouro Fino, Minas Gerais, Brasil

• 1732 » Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer († 1809)
• 1745 » Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery († 1827)
• 1814 » Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician († 1900)
• 1817 » Lewis Armistead, American general († 1863)
• 1836 » Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi († 1886)
• 1838 » Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1916)
• 1846 » Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager († 1904)
• 1848 » Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist († 1933)
• 1849 » Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician († 1906)
• 1850 » George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor († 1934)

• 1695 » William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (b. 1650)
• 1712 » Louis, Dauphin of France, (b. 1682)
• 1743 » Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1667)
• 1748 » Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
• 1772 » Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (b. 1712)
• 1778 » Joseph Marie Terray, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
• 1780 » Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (b. 1714)
• 1788 » John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
• 1803 » Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)
• 1851 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)

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)
• February 3 » American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
• February 18 » Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
• June 3 » Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
• 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.
• September 28 » American Revolution: American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.
• October 17 » American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.

The temperature on February 18, 1781 was about 4.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.