About the day » Sunday January 16, 1785Calender converter

• Aart Cornelissen van Triest, Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Ras, Urk,, Flevoland, Nederland
• Aaltje Ariensd Groeneweg, Numansdorp, zh.nld († 1867)
• Abraham Ras, Urk († 1849)
• Adriaantje Oeveren van, Sint-Phillipsland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje de Bie, Werkhoven († 1872)
• Adriana Cornelisd PUNT, Heijningen († 1852)
• Aant Wybes Altena, Boornbergum, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adriaantje van Oeveren, Sint Philipsland († 1845)
• + Annechien Everts Heukers († 1863)

• Dirk Hendriksz Gaasbeek (7), Veenendaal
• Annigjen Willems Cremer (59)
• Jan Springael (42), Rumst
• Jan Cornelisse Gerse
• Gerardus Joannes SEGERS (81), Wichelen,9260,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Giulio Ferrari
• Babara Rosa CLINCKEMAILLIE (12), Passendale,8980,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie,Belgie
• Grietje Jans (40), Reitsum, 9175, Nederland
• Cornelis Arensz van der Hout (84), Westland
• Floris Engelse Bronsgeest (75), Sassenheim

• 1728 » Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer and educator († 1800)
• 1749 » Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and playwright († 1803)
• 1757 » Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral and politician, 3rd Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland († 1834)
• 1807 » Charles Henry Davis, American admiral († 1877)
• 1815 » Henry Halleck, American lawyer, general, and scholar († 1872)
• 1821 » John C. Breckinridge, American general and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States († 1875)
• 1834 » Robert R. Hitt, American lawyer and politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State († 1906)
• 1836 » Francis II of the Two Sicilies († 1894)
• 1838 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist († 1917)
• 1851 » William Hall-Jones, English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1936)

• 1711 » Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651)
• 1747 » Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet and playwright (b. 1680)
• 1748 » Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch lawyer and scholar (b. 1684)
• 1750 » Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667)
• 1752 » Francis Blomefield, English historian and author (b. 1705)
• 1794 » Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (b. 1737)
• 1809 » John Moore, Scottish general and politician (b. 1761)
• 1817 » Alexander J. Dallas, Jamaican-American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1759)
• 1834 » Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)
• 1856 » Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)

• 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 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
• January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
• January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
• November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.

The temperature on January 16, 1785 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken mist.