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• Ann Mary Mauck, Dayton, Rockingham, Va († 1850)
• Dirk Hessel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• FRANCISCUS Marceli van Rijt, Asten, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1850)
• Catharina Broekhuijsen, Wageningen
• Cornelis Jonker, Katwijk aan Zee, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Clara Grothaus, Harderberg
• Anastasia Reiss († 1847)
• Elizabeth Boone, Frederick, Maryland, Verenigde Staten († 1807)
• David Craig, New Hope, Orange, North Carolina, United States († 1849)
• Barbara Mols, Vorselaar, België († 1858)

• Hinke Ritskes (83), Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Feikjen Johannes, Beetgum
• Adriana Schele, Terneuzen
• Anna Christina GEYPENS (47), Olmen, 2491, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Jacob Steven van Neerveen (5), Lent, Gelderland, Nederland
• Gerrit Cornelisz Van ANDEL (0), Puttershoek
• Dingena Maria Duijvelaar (0), Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Henricus De Saeger, Bornem, 2880, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Jacob Leendertsz. Jongejan (78), Brielle
• Deborah Guild# (68)

• 1736 » Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer († 1803)
• 1740 » Matthias Claudius, German poet and author († 1815)
• 1769 » Napoleon, French general and emperor († 1821)
• 1771 » Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet († 1832)
• 1785 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author († 1859)
• 1787 » Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, American writer, editor, abolitionist († 1860)
• 1798 » Sangolli Rayanna, Indian warrior († 1831)
• 1807 » Jules Grévy, French lawyer and politician, 4th President of the French Republic († 1891)
• 1824 » John Chisum, American businessman († 1884)
• 1839 » Antonín Petrof, Czech piano maker († 1915)

• 1666 » Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary and astronomer (b. 1591)
• 1714 » Constantin Brâncoveanu, Romanian prince (b. 1654)
• 1728 » Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656)
• 1758 » Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698)
• 1799 » Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet and author (b. 1729)
• 1844 » José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (b. 1733)
• 1852 » Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760)
• 1859 » Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1907 » Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831)
• 1909 » Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (b. 1866)

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 5 » In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
• 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 24 » The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
• November 4 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
• December 23 » George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.

The temperature on August 15, 1783 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.