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• Bartels Arends Nijenbrink, Nijeveen, Nederland († 1870)
• Anna Maria Jan (Maria) de Bie, Riel († 1845)
• Antoni Jacobsz Stip, Veenendaal
• Anne Barbe SALVERIS, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 1854)
• Aartje van Pippen, Amersfoort
• Barteld Arends Nijenbrink, Nijeveen († 1870)
• Anna Sophia van Acker, Temse († 1858)
• Anna Sluijp, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje van Pipping, Amersfoort († 1784)
• Adriaan van den Berge, Terneuzen († 1851)

• Jannetje Teunisdr Berendregt (70), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Adriaanse Verhulst (39), Oudenbosch
• Hendrik Sijmensz Cornelis "Knelis" Verdegaal (47), De Zilk (Noordwijkerhout)
• Jan Drinkenburg (42), Utrecht
• Cornelis Cornelisz. Pols (3), Brielle
• Eleonore Sophia van Papstein (69)
• Grietje Reintjes (32), Weiwerd
• Dirk van Straaten, Zoetermeer
• Aldegonda HELDENS (76), Bree (Maasbree) Limburg, Nederlnd
• Jannetje Teunisdr. Berendregt (70), Noordwijk

• 1789 » Franz Schlik, Austrian earl and general († 1862)
• 1790 » James Pradier, French neoclassical sculptor († 1852)
• 1790 » Jules Dumont d'Urville, French admiral and explorer († 1842)
• 1794 » Ignaz Moscheles, Czech pianist and composer († 1870)
• 1795 » Charles Barry, English architect, designed the Upper Brook Street Chapel and Halifax Town Hall († 1860)
• 1800 » Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Mexican general and president (1855) († 1877)
• 1810 » Margaret Fuller, American journalist and critic († 1850)
• 1817 » Manuel Robles Pezuela, Unconstitutional Mexican interim president († 1862)
• 1820 » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge († 1887)
• 1820 » Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge († 1891)

• 1701 » William Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
• 1749 » Abraham ben Abraham, Polish martyr (b. 1700)
• 1752 » William Bradford, English-American printer (b. 1663)
• 1754 » John Wood, the Elder, English architect, designed The Circus and Queen Square (b. 1704)
• 1783 » James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1725)
• 1813 » Géraud Duroc, French general and diplomat (b. 1772)
• 1815 » Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (b. 1753)
• 1841 » Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
• 1855 » Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1857 » Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1789)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Joannes
7. Jacob
8. Willem
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Jean
14. Klaas
15. John
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Marie
5. Cornelia
6. Catharina
7. Joanna
8. Elisabeth
9. Neeltje
10. Trijntje
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Antje
14. Adriana
15. Jannetje
16. Elizabeth

• 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)
• March 11 » The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
• April 9 » The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.
• June 4 » Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
• August 17 » Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón.
• August 23 » Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
• October 22 » Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

The temperature on May 23, 1784 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.