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• Amelia Johanna Drews, Groningen, Netherlands († 1839)
• Amelia Johanna Drews, de, Groningen († 1839)
• Bernardus Asmus, Ulft Gld († 1867)
• Benedictus De Beule, Zele, België († 1859)
• ANNA CATHARINA DELCOR, MOLLEM,VLAAMS-BRABANT,BELGIE († 1855)
• Anna Maria Gantevo(O)rt, Groesbeek
• Amalia Johanna DE DREWS, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1839)
• Catherine Forbes, Culross, Perthshire, Scotland
• Anna Gertrudis Boonen, Bocholt, Graafschap Loon, Prinsbisdom Luik († 1840)
• Anthonetta Hendrina van der Veer, Middelburg

• Johannes van Hemert (4), Capelle (NB-NLD)
• Cornelis Ariensz Holst (4), Amersfoort
• Joh. Martin ESCHWEILER (2), Aachen,,,Bardenberg-Würselen,Rheinland
• Isabella Rombaut (17), Sint Niklaas, Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Frans Van Os (46), Amsterdam
• Jan Gerritsz BROER (73), Breukelen, 5386, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Maartensdr van Driel (72), Ridderkerk
• Amelia Johanna Drews, de (1)
• Bernardus Bosgoed (53), Apeldoorn
• Johannes van Hemert (4), Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1760 » Pope Leo XII († 1829)
• 1764 » Charles Percier, French architect and interior designer († 1838)
• 1771 » Henry Maudslay, English engineer († 1831)
• 1773 » Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer († 1858)
• 1778 » James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy († 1860)
• 1788 » Thomas Tredgold, English engineer and author († 1829)
• 1800 » Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar († 1865)
• 1800 » William S. Harney, American general († 1889)
• 1827 » Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician († 1906)
• 1834 » Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer († 1906)

• 1711 » Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (b. 1644)
• 1752 » William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667)
• 1773 » George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1709)
• 1793 » Louis de Noailles, French general (b. 1713)
• 1797 » Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
• 1806 » Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (b. 1732)
• 1818 » Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 » Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)
• 1861 » Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)

• 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.
• August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).

The temperature on August 22, 1786 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.