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• Agnes Henriette Joseph Boët, Marcq-en-Barœul, 59378 Nord, France († 1861)
• Abraham Hogewoning, Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1841)
• Berendina Hinnen
• Antonia Verstegen, Heeswijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1859)
• Anna van Dijk, Aalst († 1831)
• Anne Lycops, Sint-Huibrechts-Hern, Lim, Nederland
• Agatha Teunis Tuijnman, Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Afie Camphuis, Groningen († 1847)
• Auguste Joseph Roseleur, Inchy (F) († 1795)
• Anne Maria Hufnagl († 1826)

• Jacob Pietersz. Moerman (33), Kethel
• Cornelia Gerrits (Gerritsdr.) Noteboom (68), Oost Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrian Dewulf (75), Zarren
• Annigje Johannesdr. Conjong(h) (9), Giessen Nieuwkerk
• Aaltje Dirks (63), Ermelo
• Anna Maria Van Put (63), Kontich
• Dennis Conrad (64), Norristown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Colonial America
• Aaltje Dirks, Ermelo-Horst
• Jachiel Daniel Guggenheim (56), Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Catharina Stalpaerts, Gierle-Lille-Poederlee, Antw-Kmp, Be (St-Pieter)

• 1747 » Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor († 1792)
• 1749 » Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French pianist and composer († 1794)
• 1764 » Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician († 1812)
• 1800 » Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher († 1864)
• 1813 » Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author († 1855)
• 1818 » Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist († 1883)
• 1826 » Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III († 1920)
• 1830 » John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company († 1906)
• 1832 » Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian († 1918)
• 1833 » Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic († 1905)

• 1705 » Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
• 1760 » Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (b. 1720)
• 1766 » Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
• 1808 » Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757)
• 1821 » Napoleon, French general and emperor (b. 1769)
• 1827 » Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
• 1833 » Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (b. 1777)
• 1855 » Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786)
• 1859 » Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b. 1805)
• 1860 » Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (b. 1804)

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. Jannetje
15. Adriana
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 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
• 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.
• 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).

The temperature on May 5, 1786 was about 7.0 °C. There was 110 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.