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• Adriaan van de Wiel, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1814)
• Anna Maria Bentink († 1803)
• Albert Pieters, Ureterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Aleida Meijer, Baak en Steenderen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1840)
• Anna Catharina De Herdt, Rumst, 2840, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Anna Maria Bentinck, Diepenheim, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1848)
• Anna Maria barones Bentinck tot Diepenheim, Diepenheim,Gemeente Hof Van Twente,Overijssel,Netherlands,huis Diepenheim († 1848)
• Alexander Wann, Henry, Virginia, United States († 1860)
• Albert Pieters, Ureterp, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Hoogsaet, Obdam († 1851)

• Grietie IJsbrantse De Haas (50), Westzaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Henricus Buchters (55), Neeritter (NL)
• Anna Maria Janse Strijbos (38), Gemert,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Antje Pieters' Koster (32), Bovenkarspel
• Elisabeth Adriaan WILBORTS (69), Ravels, Belgium
• Henricus Verbuchten (55), Neeritter
• Bartholome SWILLEN(S), Neerlinter,Provincie Vlaams-Brabant,Flanders,Belgi
• Hermen Alberts Hoogeveen (22), Op zee
• Dierck van Dooren (46), Vianen, Vianen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Hendrikje van de Berkt (39), Renswoude

• 1771 » Heinrich Clauren, German author († 1854)
• 1796 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician († 1862)
• 1799 » Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet and author († 1839)
• 1800 » Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, President of Costa Rica († 1845)
• 1805 » Thomas Cooper, British poet († 1892)
• 1811 » George Caleb Bingham, American painter and politician, State Treasurer of Missouri († 1879)
• 1811 » Napoleon II, French emperor († 1832)
• 1821 » Ned Buntline, American journalist, author, and publisher († 1886)
• 1824 » Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist († 1876)
• 1828 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director († 1906)

• 1730 » Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
• 1746 » Nicolas de Largillière, French painter and academic (b. 1656)
• 1780 » Benjamin Truman, English brewer and businessman (b. 1699)
• 1793 » William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1705)
• 1835 » Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1849 » James Justinian Morier, Turkish-English author and diplomat (b. 1780)
• 1855 » Joseph Aspdin, English businessman (b. 1788)
• 1865 » Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
• 1874 » Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• 1878 » Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)

• 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)
• 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 17 » The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
• 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.
• December 7 » Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

The temperature on March 20, 1787 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: betrokken.