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• Dirk van Velsen, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1822)
• Cornelia Wildschut, Purmerend († 1819)
• Alagonda Henrietta GOCKINGA, Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Cornelia Windschut, Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1819)
• Geesjen van 't Veen, Oosterwolde, Gelderland, Nederland († 1826)
• Catharina Agnes Maria Hooft († 1850)
• Geesjen van 't Veen, Doornspijk (Oosterwolde), Nederland († 1826)
• dirk van bosse, amsterdam († 1782)
• Godefridus Wernerij Mirrande, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1784)
• Anna Hasboom, Amsterdam († 1827)

• Catherine BONNION (32), Sallertaine, 85300, France
• Johanna Marregrieta Schipperheijn, Dinther, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• John Wilkinson (57), New Jersey, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States
• Anna Geuens (64), Poederlee
• Joannes Josephus DIEGERICK (0), Deinze, 44011, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Anje Mindelts (32), Kantens
• Cornelia Smit, Randwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Gerrit Mosterman (0), Noorderkerk en Kerkhof, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anje Mindelts (32), Kantens
• Johanna Jacobsd HORDIJK (29), Heerjansdam

• 1732 » Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop († 1812)
• 1753 » Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French lawyer and politician († 1793)
• 1754 » Andrea Appiani, Italian painter and educator († 1817)
• 1773 » Ludwig Tieck, German poet, author, and critic († 1853)
• 1801 » Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and scholar († 1887)
• 1815 » Adye Douglas, English-Australian cricketer and politician, 15th Premier of Tasmania († 1906)
• 1818 » John Albion Andrew, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Massachusetts († 1867)
• 1819 » Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist († 1892)
• 1827 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine († 1903)
• 1835 » Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander († 1869)

• 1740 » Frederick William I of Prussia (b. 1688)
• 1747 » Andrey Osterman, German-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1686)
• 1809 » Jean Lannes, French general (b. 1769)
• 1809 » Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1732)
• 1831 » Samuel Bentham, English architect and engineer (b. 1757)
• 1832 » Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1811)
• 1837 » Joseph Grimaldi, English actor, comedian and dancer, (b. 1779)
• 1846 » Philip Marheineke, German pastor and philosopher (b. 1780)
• 1847 » Thomas Chalmers, Scottish minister and economist (b. 1780)
• 1848 » Eugénie de Guérin, French author (b. 1805)

1. Jan
2. Hendrik
3. Johannes
4. Pieter
5. Cornelis
6. Joannes
7. Willem
8. Gerrit
9. Jacob
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Jean
13. Dirk
14. John
15. Klaas
16. Abraham

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Catharina
7. Joanna
8. Elisabeth
9. Trijntje
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Adriana
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 7 » The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
• April 6 » King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty.
• August 7 » George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
• August 19 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
• September 13 » American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
• December 16 » British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.

The temperature on May 31, 1782 was about 14.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.