About the day » Sunday January 8, 1786Calender converter

• Anna Smit, Hillegersberg
• Adrianus Spoel, Dordrecht
• Albertien Hinderks Knoop, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1827)
• Aaltje van LELIEVELT, Dordrecht († 1851)
• *Christiaan Meerbach, Steenbergen († 1874)
• Adriaan Soeters, Sprang († 1851)
• Albertien 'Albertje' Hidding, Smeerling, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1879)
• Anna Trine Tangen, Frackel, Lathen
• Aaltjen Pik, Veendam († 1823)
• Adrianus de Graaff, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Cornelius VAN DEN Broeck (72), VORSELAAR
• Casper Koek, op zee
• Jacob (0)
• Jacomyn Hendrick GOMMERS (87), Meer, Antwerpen, België
• Geurtje Maessen (35), Lunteren
• Adrianus Clement (83), Temse
• Franciscus Van Der Slagmolen
• Cornelius Peter VAN DEN BROECK (72), Vorselaar,2290,Antwerpen,Vlaanderen,BELGIË
• Jacobus Cornelius Dierckx (64), Meerle
• Anna Catharina LANCKRIET (78), Ruiselede,8755,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie,Belgie

• 1763 » Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American translator and diplomat († 1834)
• 1786 » Nicholas Biddle, American banker and financier († 1844)
• 1788 » Rudolf of Austria, Austrian archduke and archbishop († 1831)
• 1792 » Lowell Mason, American composer and educator († 1872)
• 1805 » John Bigler, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 3rd Governor of California († 1871)
• 1805 » Orson Hyde, American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles († 1878)
• 1812 » Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer († 1871)
• 1817 » Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician († 1893)
• 1821 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Turkey († 1904)
• 1823 » Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh geographer, biologist, and explorer († 1913)

• 1707 » John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and politician, Scottish Secretary of State (b. 1648)
• 1713 » Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1653)
• 1775 » John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (b. 1706)
• 1789 » Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703)
• 1794 » Justus Möser, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1720)
• 1815 » Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (b. 1778)
• 1825 » Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)
• 1853 » Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene-Hungarian poet and educator (b. 1788)
• 1854 » William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English field marshal and politician, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance (b. 1768)
• 1865 » Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1779)

• 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)
• May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
• June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
• August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
• November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).

The temperature on January 8, 1786 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: betrokken mist.