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• Peter van Driel, Haaften († 1859)
• Anne Marie Joseph STIEVENARD, Anzin,59410,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE († 1846)
• Adrianus van der Burg, Wassenaar († 1783)
• Adam Philipp Hirschbein, Kirchhatten, Duitsland († 1838)
• Barbara Nys, Vrasene
• Anna Smits, Wilrijk, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1821)
• Derk Jan van BINSBERGEN, Angerlo, Nederland, Gelderland, Nederland († 1821)
• Adrianus Ketelaars, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• David Deinema, Leeuwarden
• Bart van Leeuwen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1787)

• Justa Jansen Van Oosterwijck (69)
• Aaltje de Wit
• Jean-Baptiste Campeau (71), Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
• Hendrik Evertsz van der Veen (55), Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Cornelia Stork (62), Amsterdam
• Catharina Quakenbeek (48)
• Gerardus Reijntjes (59), Emmerich (Deu)
• Joanna, Maria Verheerstraeten (30), Herdersem
• Barbara Arijsd Overweel (32), Klaaswaal
• Johannes Halkers (Hackers)

• 1760 » Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French author, playwright, journalist, and politician († 1797)
• 1771 » Patrick Gass, American sergeant (Lewis and Clark Expedition) and author († 1870)
• 1775 » Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal († 1851)
• 1777 » Robert Clark, American physician and politician († 1837)
• 1795 » John Marston, American sailor († 1885)
• 1798 » Samuel Cooper, American general († 1876)
• 1800 » Samuel Wright Mardis, American politician († 1836)
• 1802 » Harriet Martineau, English sociologist and author († 1876)
• 1806 » John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge († 1869)
• 1807 » Ante Kuzmanić, Croatian physician and journalist († 1879)

• 1668 » Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (b. 1599)
• 1675 » Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
• 1734 » James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French-English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1670)
• 1758 » Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
• 1772 » Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
• 1778 » Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (b. 1716)
• 1816 » Pierre Augereau, French general (b. 1757)
• 1818 » Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor
• 1841 » Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist, and philologist (b. 1786)
• 1900 » Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)

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. Jean
14. Klaas
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)
• February 5 » In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
• 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 26 » A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated the end of fighting in the American Revolution.
• 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.
• November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.

The temperature on June 12, 1783 was about 13.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.