About the day » Tuesday February 20, 1787Calender converter

• Antje Ruurds VELDSMA, Oosterzee
• Aaltje Jans Nap, Joure, Friesland, Nederland († 1790)
• Berendina GEERTS, Westerwijtwerd
• Antonius, Groot Linden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Theresia Knobbe, Mettingen, 49497, Duitsland
• Albert Jans Baas, Eexta, Scheemda, Groningen, Nederland
• Benjamin Eleazar Voorzanger (Wolf Susman), Amsterdam († 1844)
• Anne Thérèse Joseph Taisne, Bertry († 1859)
• Abraham Barend Ber, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1849)
• Adriana Verkuijlen, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Hendrik Klaassen de Maat (58), Sauwerd, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Barbara Danzeisen (68), Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland
• Euphrosina Rietmann (74), St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Jenne Terweij (31), Esche, Veldhausen, Bentheim, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Goris Stout (77), Bergambacht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria De Schepper (46), Stekene (B)
• Jan COX (3), BERG, Limburg, Belgique
• Evert Van Engelanburg (50), Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Guilaume William SCHUMANN (56), Frisange, Luxembourg
• Jenne Terweij (31), Esche Veldhausen, Bentheim Dld

• 1745 » Henry James Pye, English poet and politician († 1813)
• 1751 » Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet, translator, and academic († 1826)
• 1753 » Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence († 1815)
• 1759 » Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist († 1813)
• 1774 » Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Spanish cartographer, engineer, military officer and land surveyor of Spanish Louisiana and Spanish West Florida († 1829)
• 1784 » Judith Montefiore, British linguist, travel writer, philanthropist († 1862)
• 1792 » Eliza Courtney, French daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire († 1859)
• 1794 » William Carleton, Irish author († 1869)
• 1802 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer († 1870)
• 1819 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician († 1882)

• 1762 » Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (b. 1723)
• 1771 » Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (b. 1678)
• 1773 » Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
• 1778 » Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and scholar (b. 1711)
• 1790 » Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
• 1806 » Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-American general and politician (b. 1725)
• 1810 » Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean rebel leader (b. 1767)
• 1850 » Valentín Canalizo, Mexican general and politician. 14th President (1843–1844) (b. 1794)
• 1862 » William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
• 1871 » Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 February 20, 1787 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht.