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• Albert Harms DARWINKEL, Gieten, Drenthe, Nederland († 1832)
• Albert Adams Evers, Vriezenveen,Gemeente Twenterand, Overijssel, Nederland († 1852)
• Adriaan Brouwer, Sint Laurens, Zeeland, NL
• Aafje Bakker, Den Burg († 1811)
• Adriaan Jansz Bons, Noordeloos, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1834)
• Abraham Ebersole, Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States († 1853)
• Anna Catharina Beks, Ijzevoorde († 1858)
• Aaltjen (Willems) Veenhof, Vledder, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Francisca Heirman, Temse († 1864)

• Ernst Engelbert van Pröbsting (91), Heusden, N.B
• Emig-Balthasar PETRI (80), Unna(D)
• Elisabeth Klapdor (62), Düsseldorf, Kalkum, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Cornelius Jacobus Frijters (50), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Monster (53), Klaaswaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Caspar Wetter (74), Wunderthausen
• Jan Joosten Groen, Egmond aan Zee
• Elisabeth Starreveld (3), Amsterdam
• Arie Cornelisz Monster (53), Klaaswaal, Cromstrijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Everts Brouwer (75), Lunteren, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1725 » Dru Drury, English entomologist and author († 1804)
• 1740 » Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer († 1795)
• 1778 » Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist, mycologist, and academic († 1841)
• 1799 » Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author († 1854)
• 1818 » Emperor Norton, San Francisco eccentric and visionary († 1880)
• 1831 » Oliver Ames, American financier and politician, 35th Governor of Massachusetts († 1895)
• 1848 » Jean Aicard, French poet, author, and playwright († 1921)
• 1849 » Jean Richepin, French poet, author, and playwright († 1926)
• 1862 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist († 1942)
• 1865 » Abe Isoo, Japanese minister and politician († 1949)

• 1713 » Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English philosopher and politician (b. 1671)
• 1774 » Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
• 1781 » Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)
• 1799 » Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect and educator (b. 1728)
• 1843 » Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (b. 1770)
• 1891 » Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (b. 1816)
• 1905 » Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor and academic (b. 1841)
• 1926 » İskilipli Âtıf Hodja, Turkish author and scholar (b. 1875)
• 1928 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)

• 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 17 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens: Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
• 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).
• March 1 » The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.
• September 5 » Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
• 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.

The temperature on February 4, 1781 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.