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• Cornelis Pieterse Delfgauw, CHARLOIS (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1857)
• Catherina Winter, Seligenstadt, Hessen, Germany († 1787)
• Adolf Johannes van der Veen, Weststellingerwerf († 1836)
• Cornelia Schrijver, Scherpenisse
• Beatrix Laumen, Berg aan de Maas (Stein), Limburg, Nederland († 1828)
• Cornelis Pietersz Delfgauw, Charlois († 1857)
• Cornelis Delfgauw, Overschie
• Amandus Heinrich Günzler, of Stuttgart, Wurtt
• Cornelia de Kort, Netersel († 1790)
• Anna Maria Van Acoleijen, Malderen,, Vlaams-Brabant, België († 1855)

• Franciscus Mertens, Oordegem
• Maria Jacoba Berth (34), St. Laureins, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Adriaan BOURICIUS (73), Arnhem, 1163, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jannetje Gerrits Vangst (83), Rijnsburg
• Clementia Pellaers (5), Hoeselt
• Joanna Catharina Coen (55), Moerzeke
• Carolina Joanna VAN DEN HENDE, Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Jean-Baptiste Francois Gauthier
• Johannes Josephus Hansen (0), Kerkrade, Nederland
• Johannes Weidner (80), Lower Milford, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States

• 1729 » Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer († 1811)
• 1755 » Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War († 1813)
• 1780 » Piet Retief, South African ruler († 1838)
• 1793 » Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist († 1831)
• 1795 » Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist († 1856)
• 1815 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist († 1902)
• 1817 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith († 1892)
• 1833 » Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist († 1887)
• 1840 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker († 1917)
• 1842 » John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)

• 1667 » Hans Nansen, Danish politician (b. 1598)
• 1671 » Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (b. 1612)
• 1742 » Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1793 » Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
• 1793 » Lord George Gordon, English politician (b. 1751)
• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)

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. John

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Trijntje
6. Catharina
7. Joanna
8. Adriana
9. Elisabeth
10. Marie
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Neeltje
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)
• May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
• June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
• 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 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
• October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

The temperature on November 12, 1787 was about 10.0 °C.