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• Arjaantje Paulus, Zevenhuizen
• François Baudry, Berry Bouy, 18500, France
• Elisabeth van Dulmen, Ammerzoden, Nederland
• Anna Katharina Elisabeth KREMER, Kesselscheid, Ruppichteroth, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1831)
• elizabeth van halle, Kampenhout
• Barbara de Meyere, Hooglede (België)
• Aart Pelle, Neerijnen († 1866)
• Atze Atzes van der Veer, Oostermeer, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1832)
• Agatha Petronella Hubertsdr Vonk, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland NL († 1821)
• Abraham de Neufville, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1871)

• Harmen BÖRGER (37), Neuenhaus
• Daniel Veilbrief, Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Hendrik Cornelisz Schoemaker (73), Loosdrecht
• Anna Maria
• Arie Hendriks Jager (81), Sliedrecht
• Catharina Conrads, Witterschlick, Bonn, Rhein, Preußen, Deutschland
• Hendrik Cornelis Schoenmaker (73), Oud Loosdrecht
• Daniel Veijlbrief (40), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Arie Jager (81), Sliedrecht
• Catharina Vos (73), Mol, Antwerpen, België

• 1747 » Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German pianist and composer († 1800)
• 1777 » Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer († 1859)
• 1778 » Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist († 1858)
• 1794 » Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1852)
• 1809 » Edward FitzGerald, English poet and translator († 1883)
• 1809 » Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, novelist, and playwright († 1852)
• 1809 » Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer († 1864)
• 1813 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) († 1898)
• 1819 » Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst († 1901)
• 1823 » Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author († 1886)

• 1723 » Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, English soldier and politician, 14th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1661)
• 1741 » Pieter Burman the Elder, Dutch scholar and author (b. 1668)
• 1751 » Frederick, Prince of Wales, Hanoverian-born heir to the British throne (b. 1707)
• 1797 » Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian merchant, author, and activist (b.1745)
• 1837 » John Constable, English painter and educator (b. 1776)
• 1850 » John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
• 1855 » Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1816)
• 1877 » Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1801)
• 1880 » Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Franz Abt, German composer and conductor (b. 1819)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Jacob
8. Joannes
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Klaas
13. Dirk
14. Jean
15. Adrianus
16. Leendert

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Trijntje
6. Catharina
7. Elisabeth
8. Adriana
9. Joanna
10. Marie
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Aaltje
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 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
• January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
• February 3 » Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
• May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
• August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.

The temperature on March 31, 1787 was about 7.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: betrokken.