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• Adrianus van Agtmaal, Steenbergen
• Adam Romkes van der Wal, Hallum († 1846)
• Anna Salomons van der Werf, Lisse
• Albertus Balk, Elburg
• Arend Jans (Arent) de Boer, Ureterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1851)
• "Trijntje" Jansdr Verbrugge, Maassluis († 1871)
• Arend Jans de Boer, Ureterp († 1851)
• Anna Barbara Widdershoven, Nieuwstadt
• Adriana Overdulve, Haamstede gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld, NL
• Aagje Jans Jongkees, Den Helder, Nederland († 1781)

• Joannes Baptista 2 VERMANDER (81), Roeselare, 36015, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Dorothea Peeters (2), Temse
• Maria Geertruij Schoots, Amsterdam
• Jan Leendertsz DEKKER (1)
• Jan Frans De Lantsheere (59), Opwijk
• Christiana Haberkorn, Geldern, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• MARIA VAN DAMME, EKSAARDE,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Jeannne DHOORE (40), Sijsele,8340,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Hannah WILSON (42), Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England
• Pieter Massignon, Besoijen

• 1711 » Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist and academic († 1753)
• 1713 » Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon († 1780)
• 1733 » Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian († 1790)
• 1755 » Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer († 1839)
• 1784 » Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer († 1846)
• 1820 » Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario († 1903)
• 1839 » Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist († 1907)
• 1844 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar († 1930)
• 1848 » Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz († 1914)
• 1849 » Emma Lazarus, American poet and educator († 1887)

• 1726 » Hugh Drysdale, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia
• 1734 » Peter King, 1st Baron King, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1669)
• 1789 » Joseph Foullon de Doué, French politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
• 1802 » Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
• 1824 » Thomas Macnamara Russell, English admiral
• 1826 » Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1746)
• 1832 » Napoleon II, French emperor (b. 1811)
• 1833 » Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (b. 1757)
• 1864 » James B. McPherson, American general (b. 1828)
• 1869 » John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (b. 1806)

• 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 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 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 13 » William Herschel discovers Uranus.
• September 6 » The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
• October 20 » The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria.

The temperature on July 22, 1781 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.