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• Arendje van den Berg, 's-Gravenzande († 1862)
• ambroise ANDRY, Wasmes (Belgium)
• Abraham la Roij, Breskens
• Arent Jacob Koster († 1799)
• Arent Jacobsz Koster, Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1799)
• Antje Pronk, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1847)
• Andries van Rij, Zuidland
• Amalie Marie Charlotte Willer, Langenholzhausen, Duitsland († 1844)
• Anna Ottes Hulst, Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland († 1819)
• Arent Koster, Pernis

• Jacoba van der Wallen (67), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Dieuwertje Jans Groot (33), Opperdoes, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Blom (56), Gouda, ZH, Nederland
• Alexis Desrosiers dit Lafreniere (68), Berthierville, Québec, Canada
• Elias DE JONGHE (58), Westkerke, Oudenburg, Province of West Flanders, Belgium
• Joanna Janse Smout (64), Wouw
• François Jean van Aerssen (20), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Eli Perdatter Ormalseng (60), Øyre, Hordaland, Norway
• Jan Danielsz SINT NICOLAAS (3)
• Elisabeth Klas (67), Osann, Monzel

• 1760 » Pope Leo XII († 1829)
• 1764 » Charles Percier, French architect and interior designer († 1838)
• 1771 » Henry Maudslay, English engineer († 1831)
• 1773 » Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer († 1858)
• 1778 » James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy († 1860)
• 1788 » Thomas Tredgold, English engineer and author († 1829)
• 1800 » Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar († 1865)
• 1800 » William S. Harney, American general († 1889)
• 1827 » Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician († 1906)
• 1834 » Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer († 1906)

• 1711 » Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (b. 1644)
• 1752 » William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667)
• 1773 » George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1709)
• 1793 » Louis de Noailles, French general (b. 1713)
• 1797 » Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
• 1806 » Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (b. 1732)
• 1818 » Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 » Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)
• 1861 » Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)

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)
• January 14 » American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
• 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.
• 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 August 22, 1784 was about 18.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken regen.