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• Aleida Veldkamp
• Dempsey Morris, Pasquotank Co., North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Elizabeth Freerks Kuiper, Midwolda, Scheemda (Groningen) († 1852)
• Elisabeth Sanders, Eijmeren, Gelderland, Nederland († 1853)
• Clara Maria Sanderson, Amsterdam
• Anne Marie WIOLAND, Traubach-le-Haut (68210, Haut-Rhin, France) († 1855)
• Clara Maria Sanderson, Amsterdam
• Aleida Veldkamp, Duiven († 1860)
• Catharina Tunderman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1823)
• Anna van Kersbergen, Gouda

• Dyonisius Denissen (60), Berendrecht
• François DRUMILLION (74), Sérézin-de-la-Tour,38300,Isère,Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,FRANCE
• Catharina Slijckers (61), Tegelen
• Gottlob Alexander Maximiliaan Graaf Henckel van Donnersmarck (62), 's Gravenhage
• Antje Jans van der Linden (45), Velsen
• Jannetje Gijsberts (46), Ermelo-Telgt
• Jacobus Cornelisz Soeters (56), Sprang
• Elisabeth Jans De BRUIJN (54), 's-Gravenzande
• Christian Walborn Batdorf (57), Tulpehochen, Berks, Pennsylvania
• Jannetje (46), Ermelo-Telgt

• 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. 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)
• March 13 » William Herschel discovers Uranus.
• September 4 » Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers.
• 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 6 » The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
• September 28 » American Revolution: American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.
• November 29 » The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

The temperature on May 16, 1781 was about 27.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: zeer half bewolkt.