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• Cornelia Westmaas, 's-Gravenzande († 1862)
• Anna Wilhelmina Robart, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Kuhmichel, Fischelbach, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1848)
• Elisabeth Kraaij, Hoorn († 1820)
• Dirk Meijvogel, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Douwe Ruurds Stallinga, Workum († 1862)
• Alida Zonne, Gouda († 1860)
• Elisabeth Hendrik van MENZEL, Oss, 4077, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1865)
• Adriana Houtman, Schiebroek, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Elisabetha Daemen, Bingelrade († 1827)

• Hermanus Duijverman (31), Utrecht
• Cornelia Cornelisdr Weuijster (60), Schiedam
• "Charles" François Joseph Vilain
• Bernardus (barend) Grevenstuk (38), Zwolle
• Karel Frans Joseph Graaf Villain XIIII Heer van Welle (78), Hofstade, Vlaanderen
• Hendrik Joppe Taal (63), Scheveningen
• Anna Cecilia Schoolmeester (0), Blankenberge, België
• Hendrik Taal (63), Scheveningen
• Livina Jacoba de Causmaecker (38), Bassevelde, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Adrianus Dircken (55), Ravels (België)

• 1750 » Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor († 1825)
• 1754 » François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general and engineer († 1833)
• 1774 » Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician († 1809)
• 1792 » John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1878)
• 1803 » Nathan Clifford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 19th United States Attorney General († 1881)
• 1807 » B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia († 1893)
• 1819 » Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia († 1876)
• 1822 » Isaac P. Rodman, American general and politician († 1862)
• 1830 » Franz Joseph I of Austria († 1916)
• 1831 » Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician († 1931)

• 1683 » Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
• 1707 » William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1640)
• 1712 » Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1660)
• 1765 » Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
• 1815 » Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
• 1823 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)

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)
• 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 25 » Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
• August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
• 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.
• August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.

The temperature on August 18, 1786 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by east. Weather type: betrokken.