• 1750 » Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela († 1816)
• 1760 » Thomas Clarkson, English activist († 1846)
• 1773 » Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general († 1844)
• 1793 » Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist († 1864)
• 1795 » Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian and author († 1876)
• 1806 » Thomas Hare, English lawyer and political scientist († 1891)
• 1811 » John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint († 1860)
• 1815 » Arsène Houssaye, French author and poet († 1896)
• 1818 » Wade Hampton III, American general and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina († 1902)
• 1819 » Joseph Bazalgette, English architect and engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge and Battersea Bridge († 1891)

• 1687 » Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
• 1794 » Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
• 1818 » Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1755)
• 1865 » Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1786)
• 1866 » Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1868 » James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1797)
• 1870 » George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
• 1874 » Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1795)
• 1881 » Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1893 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (b. 1824)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Neeltje
8. Marie
9. Joanna
10. Trijntje
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Adriana
14. Aaltje
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 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
• May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
• 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 March 28, 1786 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken.