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• Alle Sybrens van der Meer, Leeuwarden († 1812)
• Baudina Kroone, Nieuwerkerk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1850)
• Alida (Aaltje) van Beekhof, Amerongen († 1849)
• Catharina Hendrika van Brummelen, Tricht (GL) († 1853)
• Catharina Hendrika van Brummelen, Geldermalsen, Nederland († 1853)
• Adriana de Regt, Axel
• Annigjen Roels Elzinga, Noordwolde, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Sannes, Antwerpen, 2000, België
• Aaltje (Alida) van Beekhof, Amerongen, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1849)
• Barend Hendrik Brussen, Dinxperlo De Heurne "De Laar" († 1840)

• Bernardus Driessen (62), Helden, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adriana van Hattem (38), Utrecht
• Bernardus Driessen (62), Helden
• Catharina Kostermans (40), Standdaarbuiten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gertrudis Jansdr. Outshoorn (0), Wassenaar aangifte
• Augustinus Lambrecht (0), Ruiselede, 8755, Tielt, West Vlaanderen
• Adriana van Hattum (38), Utrecht
• Adriaantje Gerrits van Hattum (39), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Elisabeth Sijlvers (81), Oosterhout
• Christiaan de Cerff (79)

• 1710 » Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, violinist, and organist († 1736)
• 1720 » Johann Friedrich Agricola, German organist and composer († 1774)
• 1785 » Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist († 1863)
• 1809 » Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille († 1852)
• 1813 » Isaac Pitman, English linguist and educator († 1897)
• 1832 » George Tryon, English admiral († 1893)
• 1838 » General Tom Thumb, American circus performer († 1883)
• 1839 » Carl Humann, German archaeologist, architect, and engineer († 1896)
• 1848 » Katsura Tarō, Japanese general and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Japan († 1913)
• 1858 » Carter Glass, American publisher and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1946)

• 1695 » François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, French general (b. 1628)
• 1752 » Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1704)
• 1761 » Stephen Hales, English clergyman and physiologist (b. 1677)
• 1782 » Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect, designed École Militaire (b. 1698)
• 1786 » Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1729)
• 1804 » Charlotte Lennox, English author and poet (b. 1730)
• 1821 » Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint (b. 1774)
• 1825 » Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751)
• 1863 » Roger Hanson, American general (b. 1827)
• 1874 » Thomas Gregson, English-Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)

• 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 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
• June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
• August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
• August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
• September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.

The temperature on January 4, 1786 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.