About the day » Thursday September 28, 1786Calender converter

• Ebel~Frankes Elslo, Balk
• alexandre samuël jh. HANNEUSE, Jemappes (Belgium) Hainaut († 1843)
• Archibald McArthur, Robeson, North Carolina, United States († 1812)
• Aukjen Jelkes Graanstra, Zuiderdragten († 1873)
• Adrianus van Campen, Kalmthout, Antwerpen, België († 1860)
• Annigje Huigsd Van Der HEIJDE, Zuid-Beijerland († 1862)
• Adriaan van Campen, Kalmthout, 2920, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1860)
• Anna Jacobs van der Noll, Monster († 1859)
• Aaltje Hollenberg, Zandvoort († 1830)
• Aagtje Visser, Marken, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• John Brewerton (71), Godington, Oxfordshire, England
• Ate Lieuwes Monkel, Oosterend
• Hendrik Waanders, Ankeveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Bourgondien (76), Twello
• Cornelia Heijmans (71), Heerle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Claude Frans Markgraaf van Chabannes de Vergers (66), Château Quincy, Nuits-St. Georges, Bourgondië
• John Pilcher (83), Kent, England
• Franciscus Raeymaeckers, Gierle
• Franciscus Raeymaekers (54), Gierle
• Anna POLLENTIER (1), Nieuwmunster (Zuienkerke), West-Vlaanderen, België

• 1735 » Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1811)
• 1746 » William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar († 1794)
• 1765 » Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg († 1814)
• 1803 » Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author († 1870)
• 1809 » Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist († 1899)
• 1819 » Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer and publisher († 1885)
• 1821 » Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician († 1874)
• 1823 » Alexandre Cabanel, French painter and educator († 1889)
• 1824 » Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet and critic († 1897)
• 1836 » Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock († 1910)

• 1687 » Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian theologian and academic (b. 1623)
• 1694 » Gabriel Mouton, French mathematician and theologian (b. 1618)
• 1702 » Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, French-English lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1640)
• 1742 » Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663)
• 1829 » Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (b. 1771)
• 1844 » Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (b. 1769)
• 1859 » Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (b. 1779)
• 1873 » Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
• 1891 » Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)

• 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 25 » Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
• 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.
• September 11 » The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
• 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 September 28, 1786 was about 7.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken.