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• Elisabeth Hublitz, Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Hendricus Jacobus Caspers, Zevenaar (GL)
• Heimen Brummel, Epe, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1869)
• Bernard Alexander Vandevelde, Woumen († 1835)
• Catharina Verlegh, Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gooitske Tjeerds van der Wal, Eernewoude († 1853)
• Benjamin WELLES, Boston, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1860)
• Gooitske [Tjeerds] van der WAL, Eernewoude (Tietjerksteradeel) Friesland, Nederland († 1853)
• Dina Maggelina Silvanus, Rijnsburg
• Allegunde Aben, Oploo

• Anne Cecile GHESQUIERE (28), Wervik, 8940, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Gijsbert Arens ROS (76), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie-Adriaans Wouters Streef (68)
• Grietje jans Spil (28), Spierdijk
• Aletta Hogerdijk (0), Stolwijk
• Aerjaantje Sourij (39), Rotterdam
• Gijsbert Arens Ros (76)
• Gijsbert Arense Ros (76), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Jongkees (0), Den Helder
• Anna Catharina Metzger (34), Heimbach-Neuwied, Rheinland-Pfalz, Duitsland

• 1756 » James Gillray, English caricaturist and printmaker (d.1815)
• 1764 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general († 1813)
• 1790 » William Wentworth, Australian journalist, explorer, and politician († 1872)
• 1803 » Vladimir Odoyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic († 1869)
• 1814 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer († 1874)
• 1818 » Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and suffragist († 1893)
• 1819 » Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist († 1903)
• 1820 » George Grove, English musicologist and historian († 1900)
• 1823 » Goldwin Smith, English-Canadian historian and journalist († 1910)
• 1831 » Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer († 1902)

• 1667 » Jeremy Taylor, Irish bishop and saint (b. 1613)
• 1686 » Louis Maimbourg, French priest and historian (b. 1610)
• 1721 » Jacques Lelong, French priest and author (b. 1665)
• 1744 » John Cruger, Danish-American businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of New York City (b. 1678)
• 1749 » Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (b. 1719)
• 1766 » Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (b. 1726)
• 1795 » Ahilyabai Holkar, Queen of Indore (b. 1725)
• 1826 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)
• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)

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 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 6 » In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
• 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.
• June 3 » Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
• 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 August 13, 1781 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.