About the day » Saturday January 6, 1787Calender converter

• Anne Thérèse Grymonpon, Ledegem
• Anna Joannesdr van Sandtvliet, Roosendaal († 1844)
• Catharina Elisabeth Beuckelaers, Wilrijk, 2610, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1789)
• Aart Harms Doornwaard, Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1851)
• ? van Ladesteijn, Rotterdam
• Abel Lieuwes, Dokkum, Friesland, Nederland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart Harmensen DOORNWAARD, Doornspijk
• Anna Santvliet van, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1844)
• Aart van Steenis, Tricht (NL)
• Aagtje Douwes Wiersma, Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FRI, Nederland († 1865)

• Benjamine Kaiser (58)
• Anna Catharina Geh (0), Offenbach/Main, Offenbach, Starkenburg, Hessen
• Eva van Haarlem, Leiden
• Hester Pietersdr Both (35), Dirksland
• "Nicolas" François de Fresne (88), Chevillon, Haute-Marne, France
• Cornelia Fokx (32), Sprang, Noord-Brabant, Nederland NL
• Anna Christina Roemelingh (67)
• Elisabeth Oosthof (73), Alkmaar
• Anna Riquaert (68), Snellegem
• Harmen Jan van HENGEL (57), Winterswijk,, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1766 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, first dictator of Paraguay († 1840)
• 1785 » Andreas Moustoxydis, Greek historian and philologist († 1860)
• 1793 » James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War († 1862)
• 1795 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic († 1871)
• 1799 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author († 1831)
• 1803 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer († 1888)
• 1807 » Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist († 1891)
• 1808 » Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American conchologist and paleontologist († 1864)
• 1811 » Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician († 1874)
• 1822 » Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist and businessman († 1890)

• 1718 » Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1725 » Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1653)
• 1731 » Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)
• 1734 » John Dennis, English playwright and critic (b. 1657)
• 1813 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
• 1829 » Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)
• 1831 » Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1840 » Frances Burney, English author and playwright (b. 1752)
• 1852 » Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
• 1855 » Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779)

• 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 25 » After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of seven states is secured.
• June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
• September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
• October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

The temperature on January 6, 1787 was about 4.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken mist.