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• Catherine Rose DEVOS, Comines,7780,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique († 1853)
• Flora van der Meijden, Leerdam
• Angelina Philippina Dossche, Waterland-Oudeman, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1829)
• Anthonius Gelsing, Pannerden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Marie Thérèse Jacques, Ampsin, Sur Meusse, België († 1851)
• Anna Catharina Van Lindt, Kortenberg
• Anna Schimmel, Baarn
• Anna Elisabeth Bauermann, Horn
• Angelina Philippina Dossche, Waterland-Oudeman, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1829)
• Anna Theresia Ballegeer, Loppem († 1787)

• Charles Sargent Jr. (82), Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Jacobus Van Der Aa, Reet
• Adrianus Bal
• Isabella de GRUIJTER (71), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Bal
• Caroline Sophia Louise Maria Henriëtte Leopolde Pückler van Limpurg (22), Burgfarrnbach (Fürth) (Mittelfranken) (Beieren) (Duitsland)
• Amandus de BONT (49), Weelde,, Antwerpen, België
• Anna Maria Buelinckx (3), Halle
• Emerentia Snijders (41), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nl
• JACOBUS VAN DER AA, Reet

• 1765 » Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece († 1848)
• 1766 » William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist († 1828)
• 1768 » Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician († 1813)
• 1775 » Daniel O'Connell, Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin († 1847)
• 1809 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet († 1892)
• 1826 » Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author († 1915)
• 1835 » Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist († 1900)
• 1844 » Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1900)
• 1844 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer († 1896)
• 1846 » Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant († 1888)

• 1694 » Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1612)
• 1695 » François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (b. 1625)
• 1753 » Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Estonian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1711)
• 1757 » Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (b. 1673)
• 1794 » Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
• 1815 » James A. Bayard, American lawyer and politician (b. 1767)
• 1828 » Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1785)
• 1850 » Edward Walsh, Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)
• 1866 » John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
• 1881 » James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)

• 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.
• 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.
• October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
• October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
• December 18 » New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

The temperature on August 6, 1787 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken.