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• Adriana Jacobs van Haeren, Doddentaal en Ewijk
• Anna Katharina Reith, Großenlüder, Landkreis Fulda, Hessen, Duitsland
• Aleida Sandheuvel, Elten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Aletta Elisabeth Cool, Kethel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1783)
• Abraham Theodorus van Campen, 's Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1842)
• *Gilian Smits, Rijswijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1860)
• Abraham Graaf de, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna De Keijzer, Andel, Nederland († 1850)
• Abraham Goebertus, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1827)

• Arie Albertsz Gouda (39), Egmond aan Zee, North Holland, Netherlands
• Hermann Gerke (59), Langewiese, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Joannes Baptista Matthijs (38), Eeklo
• Hendrik van Vladeracken (47), Alkmaar, N.H
• Cornelia Cornelis Bouwman (4), Veenendaal
• Arie Albertsz Gouda (38), Egmond aan Zee
• Catharina Bulcke (28), Merckem
• Elijsabeth Jansd LEEST (2)
• Anna Maria STOOPEN (32), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Egidius VAN HESPEN (NESPEN) (54), Zwijndrecht

• 1715 » Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German organist († 1739)
• 1752 » Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist († 1840)
• 1797 » José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician († 1867)
• 1811 » Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician († 1893)
• 1852 » Charles W. Fairbanks, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Vice President († 1918)
• 1854 » Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer († 1932)
• 1869 » Archibald Warden, English tennis player († 1943)
• 1871 » Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author († 1943)
• 1875 » Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter († 1912)
• 1881 » Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager († 1964)

• 1686 » Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)
• 1778 » William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
• 1779 » John Hart, American lawyer and politician (b. 1711)
• 1812 » Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
• 1848 » Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (b. 1777)
• 1882 » Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1816)
• 1889 » John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company (b. 1801)
• 1908 » Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Marie
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Trijntje
9. Joanna
10. Grietje
11. Adriana
12. Neeltje
13. Aaltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
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 15 » In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
• May 18 » First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
• June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
• June 8 » Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.

The temperature on May 11, 1783 was about 7.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.