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• Anna Catharina Meyer, Liener, Kirchspiel Lindern, Duitsland
• Berber Pieters Dijkstra, Follegea, Lemsterlan, Friesland, Nederland († 1853)
• van Hassel, Oud-Gastel († 1870)
• Aaltje van Veelen, Beekbergen († 1790)
• Adamus van Schijndel, Beek en Donk, Nederland († 1856)
• Aldert Zonderzorg, Limmen († 1844)
• Anna Theresa Moenaert, Torhout,8820,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1878)
• Arnoldus Driessen, Maasmechelen, Limburg, Belgium
• (2) Aldert Zonderzorg, Limmen, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1844)
• Anna Hassel van, Oud en nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Hendrikske Jillisse Hanegraaff (62), Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Guillaume borrel (bourrel) (68), Folcarde (Haute-Garonne)
• Jacques François SOURDEAU, Hollain,7620,Hainaut,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Gregoire Ouellet (Berube, Emond, Autin Hollin) u dtDNA c (70), Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada
• Hester Fries
• Godelieve Winkelman (64), Aarsele
• Grietje Blokland (45), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Wenink (0), Winterswijk (Gd)
• Antonius Moerman (70), Roeselare,West-Vlaanderen,België
• David MILLER ????7th GG maternalMILLER CONNECTION (68), Rahway, Essex, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten

• 1740 » Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and meteorologist († 1799)
• 1752 » Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German author and playwright († 1831)
• 1754 » Nicolas Baudin, French cartographer and explorer († 1803)
• 1758 » John Pinkerton, Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian († 1826)
• 1781 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope († 1826)
• 1796 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist († 1866)
• 1817 » Édouard Thilges, Luxembourgian jurist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg († 1904)
• 1820 » Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer († 1881)
• 1821 » Lola Montez, Irish-American actress and dancer († 1861)
• 1832 » Richard Henry Park, American sculptor († 1902)

• 1680 » Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English politician (b. 1599)
• 1715 » Antoine Galland, French orientalist and archaeologist (b. 1646)
• 1732 » Louis Marchand, French organist and composer (b. 1669)
• 1768 » Arthur Onslow, English lawyer and politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1691)
• 1841 » Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1849 » María de las Mercedes Barbudo, Puerto Rican political activist, the first woman Independentista in the island (b. 1773)
• 1854 » John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 February 17, 1787 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: helder.