About the day » Wednesday May 16, 1787Calender converter

• Dorothea Pierre, Meldert, Hoegaarden, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium († 1853)
• David Clewell 4 1\2 G 1\4 F 1\4 SZ, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1845)
• Cornelisje Jans Boender, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1788)
• Berendina te Sligte, Aalten († 1870)
• Aagje Johannesdr Hes, Rhoon (Albrandswaard), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1850)
• Antonius (Teunis) Koekkoek, Epe († 1847)
• Cornelia Cornelisdr. BRUIJN,DE, Zoetermeer,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1825)
• Adriana SCHRIJVER, Scherpenisse,, Zeeland, Nederland († 1847)
• Cornelia de Bruin, Zoetermeer
• Antonius Koekkoek, Vaassen († 1847)

• Anna van der Heijden (24), Hulsel
• Anna Catharina Daey (71), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Caroli (Fobling ~ Fouling ~ Fellinger ~ Foellinger) Follinger OF Lorman (95), Grosbous
• Dirkje Jacobsdr. de Groot (30), Zoetermeer, ZH, Nederland
• Gisbertus van Cruchten, Zevenaar,Gemeente Zevenaar,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Henricus Gijsbert van der Heijden (17), Bladel
• Johannes Cornelisz. Ewout Hoogendijk (79), Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Krimpenerwaard
• Anna Catharina Knols (48), Klimmen,, Limburg, Nederland
• doodgeboren kind Zonnevelt, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Joachim LOBRY

• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)
• 1827 » Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum († 1921)
• 1831 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone († 1900)

• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)

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)
• 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.
• August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 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 18 » New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

The temperature on May 16, 1787 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht.