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• Aafje* Aris Cornelisz Eelman, Texel († 1852)
• Annetje Jannetje 't Jongh 't Jong, Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1858)
• Aafje Aris Eelman, Texel († 1852)
• Adriaantje de GRAAF, Klaaswaal
• Annigje 't Jong, Numansdorp († 1858)
• Adrianus Vromans, Goirle
• Annigje 't Jong, numansdorp (zuid holland) († 1858)
• Adriana van Rijswijk, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Marie Melon, Nerem, Tongeren, België
• Anna Cornelia Dymphna van Heijbeek, Essen

• Elisabeth Wagener (3), Bermershausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Hindriktie Geerts (9)
• Hester Lijte (0), Simonshaven (Zuid-Holland, NLD)
• David Buijtenom (36), Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Dorothea Kettler (48), Norden
• Abraham Mierop (39)
• Antonia Willems van ROOIJ (34)
• Helena Elisabeth Poulowits
• Henricus Docter (42), Heerde
• Christianus Bovendeerdt, Eisden (Maasmechelen), Limburg (B)

• 1717 » Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal († 1790)
• 1754 » Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1838)
• 1782 » Henri de Rigny, French admiral and politician, French Minister of War († 1835)
• 1786 » Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1856)
• 1802 » Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic († 1887)
• 1803 » Albert Sidney Johnston, American general († 1862)
• 1829 » Alfred Brehm, German zoologist and illustrator († 1884)
• 1829 » William Stanley, English engineer and philanthropist († 1909)
• 1841 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and hydrologist († 1912)
• 1842 » Julian Sochocki, Polish-Russian mathematician and academic († 1927)

• 1712 » Martin Lister, English physician and geologist (b. 1639)
• 1714 » John Sharp, English archbishop (b. 1643)
• 1723 » Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
• 1768 » Robert Smith, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
• 1769 » Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
• 1802 » Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1713)
• 1804 » George Walton, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1749)
• 1831 » Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (b. 1768)
• 1836 » Letizia Ramolino, Italian noblewoman (b. 1750)
• 1861 » Théophane Vénard, French Catholic missionary (b. 1829)

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)
• January 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
• April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
• June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• July 25 » American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
• November 3 » The American Continental Army is disbanded.
• December 23 » George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.

The temperature on February 2, 1783 was about 7.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.