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• Albertus Bruns, Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis Bergman, Den Haag
• Claas Schagen, Wervershoof
• Elizabeth PARRY, St Marylebone, Westminster, Middlesex († 1863)
• Beertjen Jansen Bosch, Doornspijk, Nederland († 1882)
• Antonia van der Heijden, Hoogland († 1869)
• Cornelis Bron, v.d., Lisse († 1837)
• Beertjen Jansen Bos, Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Elizabet van HOUTEN, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Ree, Tiel

• Cornelia Aurelia Haersma (74), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Severini van Ceulen (ook: van Keulen), Baarle
• Captain Isaac Clark (61), Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Henricus Spapen (43), Tilburg
• Antonia Ignatius Mol (1), Amersfoort
• Emmerentiana Zoetermeer, Voorhout
• Anna Henrietta van Wassenaar Veur (78), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria HAAK (57), Utrecht
• Anna Maria (Annemie) Haak (57), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Aurelia Van Haersma (74), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1730 » Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founded the Wedgwood Company († 1795)
• 1803 » Peter Chanel, French priest and saint († 1841)
• 1807 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer and academic († 1893)
• 1813 » Claude Bernard, French physiologist and academic († 1878)
• 1817 » Alvin Saunders, Territorial Governor and Senator from Nebraska († 1899)
• 1817 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher († 1862)
• 1821 » D. H. Hill, American general and academic († 1889)
• 1824 » Eugène Boudin, French painter († 1898)
• 1828 » Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic († 1889)
• 1849 » William Osler, Canadian physician and author († 1919)

• 1693 » John Ashby, English admiral (b. 1640)
• 1712 » Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician (b. 1626)
• 1742 » Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1675)
• 1749 » Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, French navy officer and politician, Governor General of New France (b. 1671)
• 1773 » Johann Joachim Quantz, German flute player and composer (b. 1697)
• 1804 » Alexander Hamilton, American general, economist, and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
• 1845 » Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian linguist, poet, and playwright (b. 1808)
• 1850 » Robert Stevenson, Scottish engineer (b. 1772)
• 1855 » Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
• 1870 » John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (b. 1809)

• 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 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.
• May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
• 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.
• October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

The temperature on July 12, 1787 was about 14.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken.