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• Caatje Kuipers, Noordwijk († 1867)
• Anna, Catharina van Tichelt, Wuustwezel
• Cornelia de Munnik, Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1863)
• Anna Maria Laeremans, Herselt († 1867)
• Cornelia de Munnik, Monster, Westland, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1863)
• Anna Catharina van Tichelt, Wuustwezel, België († 1875)
• Anna Catharina Schulte, Düthe, Fresenburg, Niedersachsen, Deutschland († 1840)
• Cornelia Jacoba Kanselaar, Den Haag († 1827)
• Anna Magdalena Storm, De Rijp,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Braber, Haamstede

• Geertjen Sieberink, Laren Gld
• Anna Margaretha Dorothea Gräfin von Schwerin (56), Schwerinsburg
• Geertruij Harmens de Jong (43)
• Ida Wuestenraet (78), Gemeente Nuth, Limburg, Nederland
• Jan Karel Chotek Von Chotkova Und Wognin (83), Wien
• Ida Weustenraet (78), Nuth, Nederland
• Jean-Charles Chotek de Chotkowa (83), Vienne (Wien), Vienne, Autriche
• Charlotte d'Espagne (0)
• Joanna (Anna) Bastiaens, Lanaken
• Derk Jan Hulst (0), Dinxperlo

• 1738 » Barbara Catharina Mjödh, Finnish poet († 1776)
• 1763 » Otto Wilhelm Masing, German-Estonian linguist and author († 1832)
• 1768 » Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom († 1840)
• 1772 » William Wirt, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Attorney General († 1834)
• 1788 » Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene poet and educator († 1853)
• 1831 » Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English poet and diplomat, 30th Governor-General of India († 1880)
• 1836 » Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company († 1911)
• 1837 » Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian journalist, lawyer, and politician († 1907)
• 1847 » Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula († 1912)
• 1847 » Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician, 6th President of France († 1907)

• 1674 » John Milton, English poet and philosopher (b. 1608)
• 1719 » Michel Rolle, French mathematician and author (b. 1652)
• 1773 » Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
• 1817 » Andrea Appiani, Italian painter and educator (b. 1754)
• 1828 » Thomas Bewick, English engraver, illustrator and author (b.1753)
• 1830 » Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
• 1873 » Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1796)
• 1887 » Doc Holliday, American dentist and poker player (b. 1851)
• 1890 » César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic (b. 1828)

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.
• 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'.
• August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

The temperature on November 8, 1787 was about 7.0 °C.