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• Anders Larson, Sparrsätra, Upsala, Sweden († 1820)
• Catrina Morgenrood, Nijmegen († 1865)
• Christoffel VROLIJK, Westzaandam († 1851)
• Andries Lamberts de Vries, Oldemarkt († 1836)
• Antoine WILLEMS, Watermaal-Bosvoorde, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België († 1794)
• Barbara Segaert, Kortemark
• Beitske Sybes Krol, Engelum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Beitske Sybes Krol, Engelum († 1863)
• Cornelia van Leusden, Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1876)
• Catharina Carelse Spegt, Poeldijk

• Catherine Berthon (69), Orsennes, 36146, France
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• Joseph Frothingham (65), Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Marcelis Coolen (53), Helmond
• Engeltie Harmse van der Vlugt, Wijk aan Zee
• Cornelis Pieterse van Gelderen (38), Ameide
• Catharina (Trijntje) Blom (Bloem) (1), Oosterblokker
• Gerardus Keijsers (20), Horst
• Joannes Thomas "Thomas" Johannes Pauwels (70), Bornem, België
• Marie Jeanne SPRINGUE (62), Roncq, Nord, Frankrijk

• 1756 » John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer († 1836)
• 1758 » Christopher Gore, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 8th Governor of Massachusetts († 1827)
• 1760 » Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Minister of Justice for Imperial Russia († 1837)
• 1776 » John Fitchett, English poet († 1838)
• 1819 » Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois († 1864)
• 1840 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan († 1904)
• 1842 » Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire († 1918)
• 1846 » Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet († 1906)
• 1849 » Maurice Barrymore, American actor († 1905)
• 1853 » Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1926)

• 1709 » Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian statesman, Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (b. 1639)
• 1719 » Johann Heinrich Acker, German historian and academic (b. 1647)
• 1743 » Jai Singh II, Indian king (b. 1688)
• 1748 » John Balguy, English philosopher and author (b. 1686)
• 1796 » François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
• 1798 » George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Delaware (b. 1733)
• 1812 » Emanuel Schikaneder, German actor and playwright (b. 1751)
• 1832 » Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet (b. 1771)
• 1860 » Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (b. 1788)
• 1874 » Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (b. 1798)

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)
• January 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
• 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.
• 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.
• August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.

The temperature on September 21, 1787 was about 12.0 °C.