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• Catrina Maria Zitman, Leiden
• Cornelius (Rasenbergh) Rasenberg, Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Stolk, Dordrecht Z.H
• Cornelis STOLK, Dordrecht
• Catharina de Wijs, Alkmaar,Gemeente Alkmaar,North Holland,Netherlands († 1819)
• Anna Frederica Beudeker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1867)
• Aagje Pietersdr Loumans, Dordrecht
• Arnoldus van WIJNGAARDEN, Rotterdam
• Cornelia Wilhelmina Catharina Stierling, Amsterdam
• Daniel Weddle [iWk20:2b10c4d2e2f]iWk († 1870)

• Gen. William C Campbell (36), Near Yorktown, Virginia
• Hermanus verhoeff (67), Utrecht
• Hendrik Monster (4)
• Gosse Liebbes (Libbes) (78), Wijnjewoude
• ? de Jong (0), West-Terschelling,, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Stevens (75), Wolcott, Lamoille, Vermont, United States
• Hindrik Woltersum (53), Amsterdam
• Gosse Libbes (78), Wijnjewoude, Opsterland
• Hermen van Spankeren (63), Wageningen, Nederland
• Isaac Hunt (82), Sudbury, Middlesex, MA

• 1760 » Pope Leo XII († 1829)
• 1764 » Charles Percier, French architect and interior designer († 1838)
• 1771 » Henry Maudslay, English engineer († 1831)
• 1773 » Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer († 1858)
• 1778 » James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy († 1860)
• 1788 » Thomas Tredgold, English engineer and author († 1829)
• 1800 » Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar († 1865)
• 1800 » William S. Harney, American general († 1889)
• 1827 » Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician († 1906)
• 1834 » Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer († 1906)

• 1701 » John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1628)
• 1711 » Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (b. 1644)
• 1752 » William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667)
• 1773 » George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1709)
• 1793 » Louis de Noailles, French general (b. 1713)
• 1797 » Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
• 1806 » Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (b. 1732)
• 1818 » Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 » Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)

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. Antje
13. Neeltje
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 5 » American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
• 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.
• March 1 » The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.
• August 24 » American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
• 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.

The temperature on August 22, 1781 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder betrokken.