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• Antje Egberts de Vries, Siegerswoude († 1819)
• Anthonia Adriana COOLHOVEN, Dordrecht
• Adriana Corsdr Landman, Pijnacker († 1820)
• "Maria" Othelina Gobertina d'Aspremont-Lynden, Wien, Autriche († 1866)
• Antje Egberts de Vries, Siegerswoude, Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1819)
• Baukje Johannes Kielstra, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1842)
• Antonij Beij, Leiden († 1788)
• Baukje Johannes Kielstra, Leeuwarden
• Anna van Egmond, Rijnsburg
• Antje Jans Gorter, Wieringen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1876)

• Daniel BEUCLER (77), Bavans, 25550, Doubs, Franche-Comté, FRANCE
• Jacobus Mandigers (36), Hilvarenbeek
• dauphin BOUILLEZ (26), Jemappes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Engelina LUDIER
• Gerrit Rosch (41), Stompwijk
• Catharina Vos (74), Mol, België
• Anna de With
• Anne MOQUET (71), Châtillon en Vendelais, Ille et Vi,, Le Bas lucon
• Cornelis Neve (0), Lekkerkerk
• Jacobus Marree (3), Utrecht

• 1752 » Gouverneur Morris, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France († 1816)
• 1759 » François Devienne, French flute player and composer († 1803)
• 1769 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute († 1823)
• 1785 » Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová, Czech cook book author († 1845)
• 1797 » Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer († 1828)
• 1799 » Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist († 1846)
• 1820 » William B. Washburn, American politician, 28th Governor of Massachusetts († 1887)
• 1835 » Lunalilo of Hawaii († 1874)
• 1854 » David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1865 » Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist († 1940)

• 1720 » Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1654)
• 1729 » Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
• 1736 » Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect and set designer, designed the Basilica of Superga (b. 1678)
• 1790 » Thomas Lewis, Irish-born American lawyer and surveyor (b. 1718)
• 1794 » Mariot Arbuthnot, English admiral and politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (b. 1711)
• 1811 » Manuel Alberti, Argentinian priest and journalist (b. 1763)
• 1815 » José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan soldier (b. 1775)
• 1828 » Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek general (b. 1792)
• 1836 » John Cheyne, English physician and author (b. 1777)
• 1844 » Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)

• 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 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.
• July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
• September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
• October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

The temperature on January 31, 1787 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken.