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• Aart van Ginkel, Leersum († 1856)
• AALTJE VAN DORP, DE LIER († 1842)
• Aaltje Sierts, Hoog-en Leegkerk
• Adriaan Kammerraat, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1785)
• Aagje de Koning, Willemstad († 1827)
• Aaltje Verwoert, Opheusden, Geld., Neth
• Abel Jans Belius, Leens († 1845)
• Adriaantje Endhoven, Bruinisse († 1827)
• Adriana Klapwijk, Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Theodorus Schagen van Campen, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Adriaan Rijken, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Esther Dearborn * (88), Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
• Jacques Hebert (24), LaPrairie, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada
• Jacoba Cox (64), Horst
• Cornelis Colijn (0), Noordwijk
• Claas Mantel (6), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Joannes Andreas Patens (78), Zaltbommel
• Jacobus Blomme (0), Bekegem
• jacomina cox (64), horst
• Gertrudis Smets Smeets (53), Beesel, Limburg, Nederland

• 1777 » John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist († 1852)
• 1778 » Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Austria († 1854)
• 1785 » John Wilson, Scottish author and critic († 1854)
• 1797 » Frederick Augustus II of Saxony († 1854)
• 1822 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist († 1896)
• 1835 » Charles N. Sims, American Methodist preacher and 3rd chancellor of Syracuse University († 1908)
• 1850 » Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist († 1925)
• 1851 » James Budd, American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of California († 1908)
• 1852 » Gertrude Käsebier, American photographer († 1934)
• 1854 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator († 1924)

• 1733 » Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (b. 1761)
• 1780 » Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)
• 1781 » Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian-Indian rebel leader (b. 1742)
• 1792 » Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)
• 1795 » Robert Rogers, English colonel (b. 1731)
• 1799 » Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and publisher (b. 1732)
• 1800 » Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
• 1807 » John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (b. 1721)
• 1808 » Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738)
• 1844 » Richard McCarty, American lawyer and politician (b. 1780)

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)
• February 7 » American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
• 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.
• July 24 » The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
• August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
• October 15 » The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
• November 25 » American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

The temperature on May 18, 1783 was about 14.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north by east. Weather type: betrokken.