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• Bregje Voerman, Wijdenes († 1835)
• Dirk van Lunteren, Leersum
• aald boon, doornspijk
• Andreas Luijts, Rijen († 1853)
• Anne Marie Joseph LEROY, Thimister, 63089, Liège, Belgique († 1848)
• Antje Hendriks, Jislum
• Bregje Freeksdr Voerman, Wijdenes († 1835)
• Benjamin Harris, Tennessee, United States († 1867)
• Adolph Frederik van der Scheer, Amsterdam († 1844)
• Aafje Kalisvaart, Vlaardingen († 1870)

• Adriana Jans Kools (74), Nispen-Essen
• Frank Cornelisse Jagt van der (59)
• Elisabeth van Dommelen (0), Utrecht
• Barbara Vergote, Ingelmunster,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Jan Arends de Dood (86), Zwartsluis, Overijssel, Nederland
• Allegonda van Kessel, Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Maria Andreus van Eijnatten (38)
• Maria Teunisd Van Der STEEG (50), Mijnsheerenland
• Margje Hindriks (67)
• jacobus voorter (1), thorn

• 1754 » Franz Anton Hoffmeister, German composer and publisher († 1812)
• 1755 » Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violinist and composer († 1824)
• 1767 » Manuel Godoy, Spanish field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of Spain († 1851)
• 1774 » Ellis Cunliffe Lister, English politician († 1853)
• 1777 » Mary Reibey, Australian businesswoman († 1855)
• 1803 » Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic († 1873)
• 1804 » Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of West Canada († 1858)
• 1806 » Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and politician († 1881)
• 1812 » Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator († 1888)
• 1814 » Adolf von Henselt, German pianist and composer († 1889)

• 1748 » Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer and academic (b. 1692)
• 1759 » Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
• 1784 » Abraham Trembley, Swiss zoologist and academic (b. 1710)
• 1792 » Charles Simon Favart, French playwright and composer (b. 1710)
• 1796 » Johann Uz, German poet and author (b. 1720)
• 1801 » Nicholas Repnin, Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (b. 1734)
• 1842 » Walenty Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (b. 1799)
• 1845 » János Batsányi, Hungarian poet and academic (b. 1763)
• 1856 » Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1786)
• 1859 » Sergey Aksakov, Russian author and academic (b. 1791)

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

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Catharina
6. Elisabeth
7. Joanna
8. Marie
9. Neeltje
10. Trijntje
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Aaltje
14. Adriana
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.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.

The temperature on May 12, 1786 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: zeer betrokken.