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• Adriaan de Geus, Werkendam († 1865)
• Albert Hazewinkel, Almen († 1790)
• Albert Luppen VAN DER LAAN, Groningen († 1847)
• Aaltje (Gerrits) Schinkel, Grafhorst († 1830)
• Afke Siebes Zwaga, Sint Nicolaasga
• Aaltje Aarts, Harderwijk, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• aartje willemsdr KOK, ammerstol(ZH) († 1866)
• Adriana Baremans, Princenhage
• Andries Domburg, Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1828)
• Aaltjen Waanders, Vriezenveen († 1818)

• Joannes de Bosson (80)
• Jurriaan Siliakus (54), Amsterdam
• Barbe Thérèse de Cock (41), Tourcoing, Nord, France
• "Mariana Vitória" Josefa Francisca Xavier de Paula Antonieta Joana Domingas Gabriela de Portugal (19), El Escorial, Madrid, Espagne
• Barbe Therese DE COCQ (41), Tourcoing, Nord, Frankrijk
• Jean Baptiste COULON (35), Couture Saint Germain,1380,Brabant Wallon,Wallonie, België
• Berendt Simon Peiser, København, Danmark
• Janke Tjibbes (36), Ureterp
• Fanny Farquharson (Scot→Portugal) (25), Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
• David Bonte (43), Haarlem

• 1754 » Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general († 1794)
• 1755 » Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France († 1793)
• 1766 » Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal († 1858)
• 1777 » Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor and translator († 1822)
• 1795 » James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States († 1849)
• 1799 » John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon († 1885)
• 1799 » Titian Peale, American entomologist and photographer († 1885)
• 1808 » Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic († 1889)
• 1815 » George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher († 1864)
• 1821 » George Bowen, Irish-English diplomat, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1899)

• 1716 » Engelbert Kaempfer, German botanist and physician (b. 1651)
• 1807 » Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1730)
• 1834 » Maria Teresa Poniatowska, Polish noblewoman (b. 1760)
• 1846 » Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet and bishop (b. 1782)
• 1852 » Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
• 1863 » Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
• 1877 » Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
• 1883 » William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (b. 1828)
• 1886 » James Watney junior, English brewer, cricketer, and politician (b. 1832)
• 1887 » Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1811)

• 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 19 » The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
• January 26 » The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day.
• March 21 » A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
• April 7 » American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
• May 23 » South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
• December 22 » Nguyễn Huệ proclaims himself Emperor Quang Trung, in effect abolishing on his own the Lê dynasty.

The temperature on November 2, 1788 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: helder.