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• Aleida Willemina van den Brink (Brink,Brinck) († 1784)
• Catharina van Ackeren, Till († 1851)
• Baron Mr. Johan Willem Huyssen van Kattendijke, baron, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1854)
• clasina baltazar van dijck, Tilburg (Nl) († 1782)
• Christiane Henriette Polyxena ZU LÖWENSTEIN-WERTHEIM-ROSENBERG, Bartenstein, Ost-Preussen, Germany († 1811)
• Christiane Henriette Polyxena von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg († 1811)
• Clasina van Dijk, Tilburg
• Christiane Henriette van Lowenstein Wertheim, Bartenstein († 1813)
• Clasina van DIJK, Tilburg († 1782)
• Cornelis den Rooijen, Zevenbergen († 1855)

• Capt. Joseph "Col & Rev" Brady (47), Hopewell, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
• Abraham Ariesz Samson (59), Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adam König (0), Zinse, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Anna Theresia Bouckhout (87), Gits,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Barbara (Baartje) Dirks van Teylingen (Teeling) (39), Alkemade
• Ernestine Louise Prinses van Waldeck-Pyrmont (76), Gelnhausen, Hessen
• Anna Christina Kilmar (58), Amsterdam
• Geertje Dirks de Jong
• Adrianus Henrici Penen (73), Meer
• Charles Bostick (64), Childrey Creek, Halifax County, Virginia

• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)
• 1827 » Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum († 1921)
• 1831 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone († 1900)

• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)

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)
• March 8 » Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity, are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
• April 9 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of the Saintes begins.
• April 21 » The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
• July 1 » Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
• December 14 » The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2km (1.2mi).
• 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 16, 1782 was about 14.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.