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• Aaltje Mennes Rikkers, Winsum, Gemeente Winsum, Groningen, Netherlands († 1864)
• Antoinette Pauline Rogier, Den Haag († 1782)
• Catrijne Johannes, Ureterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Ernestine von Faulbach, Hormannsdorf, Oberfalz (Bayern) D († 1866)
• Aaltje Cornelisse van den Broek, Gemeente Leusden, Utrecht, Nederland († 1856)
• Adriaan van der Reest, Oosterland († 1868)
• Cornelia Hak, Woudenberg, Utrecht, Nederland († 1832)
• Arend Velsink, Zwolle († 1831)
• Christina van Delen, Huissen, Stad, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis Spiertz, Merkstein († 1811)

• Hendricus Duijsings (52), Berg en Terblijt, Valkenburg, Valkenburg aan de Geul
• Archibald Ritchie (52), Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Willebrordsdr van Rietbroek of Rietbroeck (75), Wassenaar, Nederland
• Claasje van Duijn (48), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands
• Digna Driessen, Dilsen, Dilsen-Stokkem (B)
• Cornelia Willems van Rietbroek, Wassenaar
• Elisabeth Dewaele (87), Renaix, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Henry T Duke (46), Augusta, Augusta Cnty, Georgia, Colonial America
• Cornelia Rietbrouck (75), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth van Ark (87), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1733 » George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Delaware († 1798)
• 1750 » Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Spanish poet and playwright († 1791)
• 1752 » Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist († 1833)
• 1765 » Pope Gregory XVI († 1846)
• 1779 » Joseph Story, American lawyer, jurist, and politician († 1845)
• 1786 » Christian VIII of Denmark († 1848)
• 1786 » Justinus Kerner, German poet and author († 1862)
• 1812 » Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Georgia († 1880)
• 1819 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic († 1868)
• 1837 » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese archbishop († 1880)

• 1721 » Matthew Prior, English poet, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (b. 1664)
• 1722 » André Dacier, French scholar and academic (b. 1651)
• 1783 » Benjamin Kennicott, English theologian and scholar (b. 1718)
• 1783 » Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)
• 1792 » August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (b. 1704)
• 1812 » Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman politician, 186th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1743)
• 1830 » William Hazlitt, English philosopher, painter, and critic (b. 1778)
• 1857 » Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1785)
• 1860 » Joseph Locke, English engineer and politician (b. 1805)
• 1872 » Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826)

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.
• January 15 » Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
• May 6 » Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
• 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 14 » American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York.

The temperature on September 18, 1782 was about 16.0 °C. There was 88 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest by south. Weather type: betrokken regen.