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• Antonie Jacobsz van Rijswijk, Amersfoort († 1854)
• Klaas Hendriksz Stokdijk, Maasland († 1848)
• Adrianus (Arie) Koppert, Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1863)
• Anthonia Maria van Brakel, Den Haag
• Annigje Alderliesten, Ridderkerk
• Adrianus Cornelis Booij, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Angenetha Aries Dalman, Zuidbroek, Groningen, Nederland († 1855)
• (1) Grietje Kuilboer, Harenkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1835)
• Aaltje Jans Kieft, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1857)
• Anna Petronella van Wanghen, Hulst, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1862)

• Jacoba Sesselaar (59), Amsterdam
• Aune Antintytär (64), Eistilä, Karelië, Finland
• Gerardus judocus VERA (49), Heeze, 3660, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Auguste Dorothea Oettinger (86)
• Hedman Roelofs (2) Dantuma (74), ,, Dantumawoude, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Janna Gertruid te Vaarwerk, Eibergen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jacob Johannes Kingma
• Joannes Beckers (5), Elsloo, LI, Netherlands
• Geneviève Lemieux (59), Cap-St-Ignace
• Augusta Dorothea Ötinger (85)

• 1751 » Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, composer, and educator († 1829)
• 1774 » Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer († 1842)
• 1779 » Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician († 1865)
• 1785 » Carlo Odescalchi, Italian cardinal († 1841)
• 1794 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer († 1872)
• 1794 » Robert Cooper Grier, American lawyer and jurist († 1870)
• 1800 » Georg Friedrich Daumer, German poet and philosopher († 1875)
• 1814 » Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian and academic († 1889)
• 1815 » John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago († 1888)
• 1817 » Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, academic, and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs († 1894)

• 1695 » Henry Wharton, English writer and librarian (b. 1664)
• 1726 » Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1655)
• 1770 » Crispus Attucks, American slave (b. 1723)
• 1778 » Thomas Arne, English composer and educator (b. 1710)
• 1815 » Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
• 1827 » Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1745)
• 1827 » Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
• 1829 » John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
• 1849 » David Scott, Scottish historical painter (b. 1806)
• 1876 » Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)

• 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)
• June 25 » Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
• June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
• August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• 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 March 5, 1786 was about -7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: omtrent helder.