About the day » Sunday May 28, 1786Calender converter

• Anje Swijghuizen, Garsthuizen, gemeente Stedum
• Anne Marie "Maria" (PACHE) (LEPAGE) PAGE, Nethen († 1861)
• Anna Catharina Bellens, Morkhoven, Herentals, België
• Abraham Bakhuis, Almelo († 1831)
• Aaltien Gerritsdr Stoter, Hoogeveen, Nederland († 1810)
• Aaltje Oudshoorn, Wilnis († 1813)
• Anna Catharina Daems, Stabroek (Belgie) († 1836)
• Aaltjen Stoter, Hoogeveen († 1810)
• Aaltje Gerrits Stoter, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1810)
• Adriana Wilhelmina de Vletter, Rotterdam, Oosterkerk († 1858)

• Georg Ludwig von Oertzen (70)
• Adrianus Musters ( Mutsaerts ) (28), Steenbergen
• Jeanne Therese Lagrou, Woumen
• Engele Kokselman (23), Almen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Pietersdr Lanser (0), Sliedrecht
• Benjamin Weed Jr (78), Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
• Carla Molo
• Jean Joseph Rosenbaum (2), Simpelveld, Gemeente Simpelveld, Limburg, Nederland
• Gerardi Fila (53), Meerlo
• Banckeris Corsse van Zijl (93), Zandambacht, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1738 » Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician († 1814)
• 1759 » William Pitt the Younger, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1806)
• 1763 » Manuel Alberti, Argentinian priest and journalist († 1811)
• 1764 » Edward Livingston, American jurist and politician, 11th United States Secretary of State († 1836)
• 1779 » Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer († 1852)
• 1807 » Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American paleontologist and geologist († 1873)
• 1818 » P. G. T. Beauregard, American general († 1893)
• 1836 » Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist and academic († 1918)
• 1836 » Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor († 1916)
• 1837 » George Ashlin, Irish architect, co-designed St Colman's Cathedral († 1921)

• 1747 » Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author (b. 1715)
• 1750 » Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
• 1787 » Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1719)
• 1805 » Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer (b. 1743)
• 1808 » Richard Hurd, English bishop (b. 1720)
• 1811 » Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1742)
• 1831 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish-English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 » Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
• 1849 » Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 » Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian and politician (b. 1808)

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. Jean
14. Klaas
15. Adrianus
16. John

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Catharina
6. Marie
7. Elisabeth
8. Joanna
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.
• 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 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
• November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
• December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).

The temperature on May 28, 1786 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: omtrent helder.