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• Barbara Dercon, Haacht
• Catharina van Versendaal, Amersfoort († 1845)
• Anna Maria Willem Sanders, Oerle (Veldhoven) (Noord-Brabant) († 1828)
• Catharina Spruijt, Amsterdam
• Anna Gertrud Willmes-Jacobs, Obersorpe (Duitsland) († 1857)
• Antje Hendriks de Vries, Ooststellingwerf, Nederland († 1848)
• Boudewijn Bouwdewijn Nieuwenhuize, Kruiningen († 1873)
• Amarentia Oir, Delfshaven
• Anna Gertrud Jakobs, Obersorpe († 1857)
• Anna Maria Sanders, Oerle

• Cornelius Thomas van Breugel (81), Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Genevieve Miville dit Deschenes (77), Liesse, Riviere Ouelle, Quebec, Canada
• Adrianus Willems Van GEMEREN (0), Pernis
• Antonius van Gastel (64), Breda
• Elisabet van Dijke, Zaamslag
• Genevieve Miville (77), Liesse, Riviere Ouelle, Quebec, Canada
• Arnoldina Hoedt (56), Bimmen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Arnolda Hoedt (56), Bimmen, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Andress Johannsen (51), St. Michaelisdonn, Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
• Franciscus Mulders, Weesperkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1764 » John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist († 1831)
• 1769 » Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat († 1835)
• 1770 » Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general († 1843)
• 1778 » Pierre Bretonneau, French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy († 1862)
• 1781 » Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader († 1830)
• 1782 » Alexander Macomb, American general († 1841)
• 1783 » Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian († 1859)
• 1791 » Anne Lister, English diarist, mountaineer, and traveller (d.1840)
• 1798 » Charles Wilkes, American admiral, geographer, and explorer (d.1877)
• 1807 » Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer († 1877)

• 1717 » Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (b. 1640)
• 1728 » James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (b. 1662)
• 1792 » George Pocock, English admiral (b. 1706)
• 1804 » Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest, historian, and author (b. 1727)
• 1827 » Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (b. 1756)
• 1838 » François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician and author (b. 1780)
• 1844 » Edward Bigge, English cleric, 1st Archdeacon of Lindisfarne (b. 1807)
• 1846 » William Braine, English soldier and explorer (b. 1814)
• 1849 » Juliusz Słowacki, Polish-French poet and playwright (b. 1809)
• 1868 » Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and surgeon (b. 1796)

• 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.
• June 25 » Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
• 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.
• November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

The temperature on April 3, 1786 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: omtrent helder.