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• Adriana Jacoba Clerks, 's Hertogenbosch, Gemeente 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1837)
• Adriaantje Hage, Sint Maartensdijk († 1848)
• Anna van Handel, Delft († 1865)
• CORNEEL JANSSENS, Halle
• Anna Maria Derickx, Heijen, Netherlands († 1877)
• Anna Maria Truyens, Retie,Antwerp,Belgium († 1850)
• Bareld Lucas Klamer, Zuidhorn († 1866)
• Catharina Blocker
• Adriana Maria van Belkom, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Truijens, Rethy, België

• Annetje de Knegt (61), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Apolline HIRTH (76), Burnhaupt-le-Bas, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• cornelis vermandel (70), westdorpe (zeeland)
• Elizabeth Harcourt (38)
• Catharina VOLCKERICK (80), Sint-Niklaas, 46021, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Feijgje Gerrits de Bruijn (41), Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• antonia reijnerus teeuwen (60), budel, Nederland
• Anne Ferdinande Scalais (51), Trognée (bisdom Luik)
• Antonius Uijlings (45), Helmond
• Anne Ferdinanda Scalais (51), Trognée (België)

• 1749 » Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning († 1841)
• 1753 » Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American pastor and botanist († 1815)
• 1755 » Louis XVIII, king of France († 1824)
• 1765 » Jacques MacDonald, French general († 1840)
• 1769 » Charlotte Georgine, duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz († 1818)
• 1790 » August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer († 1868)
• 1793 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter, historian, and academic († 1865)
• 1816 » August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer and historian († 1876)
• 1827 » Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian journalist and poet († 1895)
• 1835 » Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio († 1915)

• 1713 » Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
• 1747 » Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (b. 1668)
• 1768 » Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693)
• 1776 » James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1710)
• 1780 » Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1720)
• 1796 » Catherine the Great, of Russia (b. 1729)
• 1808 » David Zeisberger, Czech-American pastor and missionary (b. 1721)
• 1812 » John Walter, English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (b. 1738/1739)
• 1818 » Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744)
• 1835 » Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (b. 1758)

• 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 1 » First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
• January 2 » Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• February 9 » The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
• March 6 » The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
• April 28 » Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• July 26 » New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.

The temperature on November 17, 1788 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.