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• Andries Snijders, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1787)
• Arnoldus Houterman, Nijmegen, Nederland († 1857)
• Anna Raduner, Buchs, Saint Gallen, Switzerland († 1813)
• Arcangela Maselli, Castelpagano, Benevento, Campania, Italy († 1831)
• Anna Catharina van der Voort, Eersel
• Aart Jansen Hol, Blaricum († 1879)
• Aagtje van der Wal, Oudwoude († 1848)
• Anna Hofer, St Leonhard Gerlos
• Auguste Christine Caroline Louise van Schmerfeld, Rinteln, Nedersaksen († 1825)
• Aagtje Jelles, Oudwoude

• G P Burmeister, Nieuwe Oranjetuin, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Anthonie van de Garde (54), Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Govertien Kooijman (36), Oud-Beijerland
• Elijah Crandall (53), Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Jacobus de Koning (1), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carl Gottlieb Muehlenderlein (14)
• Carolus Benedict Tronco (23), Temse
• Jacob Pietersz Knol, Wijzend, Noorder-Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Antony van de Garde (54), Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Christina Eversteijn, Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1771 » Johann August Apel, German jurist and author († 1816)
• 1773 » Jonathan Alder, American captain and farmer († 1849)
• 1783 » Nadezhda Durova, Russian soldier († 1866)
• 1797 » Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist († 1821)
• 1817 » Herman Adolfovich Trautscohold, German geologist and paleontologist († 1902)
• 1819 » Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African general and politician, 1st President of the South African Republic († 1901)
• 1820 » Émile Augier, French playwright († 1889)
• 1820 » Earl Van Dorn, Confederate general († 1863)
• 1821 » Arthur Saint-Léon, French choreographer († 1870)
• 1825 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American jurist and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior († 1893)

• 1721 » Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, French princess (b. 1645)
• 1762 » Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1687)
• 1771 » Tobias Smollett, Scottish-Italian author and poet (b. 1721)
• 1803 » Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer and director (b. 1766)
• 1808 » Benjamin Bourne, American judge and politician (b. 1755)
• 1817 » Jacques Bernard d'Anselme, French general (b. 1740)
• 1836 » Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist and author (b. 1748)
• 1852 » Francisco Javier Echeverría, Mexican businessman and politician. President (1841) (b. 1797)
• 1858 » Dred Scott, American slave (b. 1795)
• 1863 » Charles Robert Cockerell, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1788)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
• October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

The temperature on September 17, 1787 was about 13.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken.