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• Catharina Francisca Roelant, Hamme († 1784)
• Elisabeth Agatha Harte, Rotterdam
• Elizabeth Chicoine Cotton, Gaspe Bay, Quebec, Canada
• Elizabeth Zangmeister, Indian Creek, PA, United States
• Antonius Antonie Verbakel, Beek en Donk, Nederland († 1820)
• Conrad Allwein († 1846)
• Daaije Engberts Brouwer, Bovenhusen (Böhmerwold, Duitsland) († 1859)
• Emmerentiana van de Loo, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1856)
• Anna Maria Ledeboer, Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands († 1840)
• Cornelia Dirks Kleijhorst, Ter Aar (Langeraar)

• Christiaan Swart (61)
• Claas Sijmonsz Bakker (73), Andijk, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Eijmert Petersz van Dalen (52), Dussen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van Been, Middelburg
• Adriaen VAN MALDEREN (66), Opwijk
• Claas Sijmensz de Backer, Andijk
• Arie Hugosz. Vermaas (52), Brielle
• Grigorij Grigoryevich Orlov (48), Saint Petersburg, Empire Russe
• Claas Sijmensz Bakker (73), Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Edmond Jefferis (88), Siston, Gloucestershire, England

• 1706 » Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian pianist and composer († 1780)
• 1718 » Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-English painter and educator († 1784)
• 1743 » Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom († 1823)
• 1784 » Peter Vivian Daniel, American lawyer and jurist († 1860)
• 1815 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer († 1882)
• 1823 » Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician, President of Mexico († 1889)
• 1845 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)
• 1856 » Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France († 1951)
• 1860 » Queen Marau, last Queen of Tahiti (d.1935)
• 1862 » Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist († 1957)

• 1656 » Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
• 1731 » Daniel Defoe, English journalist, novelist, and spy (b. 1660)
• 1748 » Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman and translator (b. 1683)
• 1779 » Eleazar Wheelock, American minister and academic, founded Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
• 1794 » Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1719)
• 1852 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
• 1889 » Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)
• 1891 » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 » G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)

• 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 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
• 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).
• November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
• November 29 » A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
• December 4 » At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.

The temperature on April 24, 1783 was about 8.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.