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• Antonie Veldmate, Hellendoorn
• Anna CAPTEIJN, Lekkerkerk
• Adrianus Vervloet, Berlaar, België
• Aderjaantje Gelderblom, schelluinen (zuid holland) († 1839)
• Arij van der SIJDE, Mijnsheerenland († 1843)
• Anneke Jansen Bouman, Heesbeen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bastiaan van der Groef, Dirksland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annetje de Bloois, Vlaardingen, So. Holl., Neth
• Arie van der Sijde, Heinenoord, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1843)
• Aike Hindriks Brouwer, Oude Pekela (gem. Pekela) († 1854)

• Moses (Moijses) Tanis (90), Oudeland
• Jan Jacob De Wilde (84), Maldegem, België
• Arien van Wagensveld (1)
• Jean Dols (55), Beek,, Limburg, Nederland
• Anne Margarethe ( Abeling )Gerkens (63), Vatenstedt, Germany
• Judocus Moens (62), Moorsel
• Jacobus Vervaet (87), ,, Lokeren, België
• Eberhard (Everhard) Banning (67), Kalkar, Nordrhein, Prussia
• Anna Maria van Royen (0)
• Moijses Tanis (90), Ouddorp

• 1738 » Nathaniel Gorham, American merchant and politician, 14th President of the Continental Congress († 1796)
• 1756 » Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria († 1825)
• 1774 » Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy († 1857)
• 1794 » Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist († 1877)
• 1814 » John Rudolph Niernsee, Viennese-born American architect (d.1885)
• 1815 » Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales († 1896)
• 1818 » Amelia Bloomer, American journalist and activist († 1894)
• 1819 » Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter († 1910)
• 1827 » Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician († 1892)
• 1832 » Zenas Ferry Moody, American surveyor and politician, 7th Governor of Oregon († 1917)

• 1675 » Gaspard Dughet, Italian-French painter (b. 1613)
• 1690 » Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1626)
• 1702 » Dominique Bouhours, French priest and critic (b. 1628)
• 1707 » Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
• 1781 » Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1716)
• 1797 » François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist (b. 1760)
• 1831 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799)
• 1840 » Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1867 » Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (b. 1796)
• 1896 » Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)

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. Grietje
12. Neeltje
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 5 » American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
• 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 15 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House: Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.
• April 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
• June 3 » Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
• September 6 » The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.

The temperature on May 27, 1781 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.