About the day » Thursday November 20, 1788Calender converter

• Carl Frederich Spehr, Penzlin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Preußen (Prussia)
• Elisabeth van Lijf (van Leijf), Sint Pieter († 1877)
• Anna Theresia Verkempinck, Torhout,8820,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1852)
• Alice, Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire († 1839)
• Anna Theresia VERKEMPINCK, Torhout, Belgique († 1852)
• Adriana de Ruijter, Nieuwpoort, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Derk Derks KANS, Nieuwe-Pekela († 1846)
• Adolphina Wilhelmina Berger († 1829)
• Edmond Martinus Josephus Frohn, Klinckheide († 1838)
• Antonia van de Laer, Liempde

• Jacobus Nipius (56), middelharnis (goeree overflakkee)
• Heinrich Otto Brinck (38), Geest
• Anna van Geest, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jacob van der Knuijt (78), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Thérèse Henau (0), Yves-Gomezée
• Geradus (Gerrit) van Welie, Afferden
• Cornelia van der Ruijt (69), Den Haag
• Hendrik Abbink (21), Zelhem
• Henricus Otto - Otto Brink (48), Geest, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Anna Margaretha STOEHR (66), Diepholz,,GERMANY,Hardt,Neuenkirchen,Lower Saxony

• 1776 » Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Austrian violinist († 1830)
• 1781 » Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver († 1835)
• 1781 » Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German captain and jurist († 1854)
• 1782 » Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, Dutch painter († 1861)
• 1783 » Georgios Sinas, Greek entrepreneur and banker († 1856)
• 1784 » Marianne von Willemer, Austrian actress and dancer († 1860)
• 1787 » Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, German firearms inventor and manufacturer († 1867)
• 1788 » Félix Varela, Cuban-born Roman Catholic priest († 1853)
• 1794 » Eduard Rüppell, German naturalist and explorer († 1884)
• 1801 » Mungo Ponton, Scottish inventor († 1880)

• 1737 » Caroline of Ansbach, queen of England and Ireland (b. 1683)
• 1742 » Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (b. 1661)
• 1758 » Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish violinist and composer (b. 1694)
• 1764 » Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician and theorist (b. 1690)
• 1773 » Charles Jennens, English landowner and patron of the arts
• 1778 » Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (b. 1726)
• 1824 » Carl Axel Arrhenius, Swedish chemist (b. 1757)
• 1856 » Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775)
• 1864 » Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (b. 1809)
• 1866 » Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (b. 1815)

1. Jan
2. Hendrik
3. Johannes
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Joannes
8. Jacob
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Klaas
14. Jean
15. John
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Trijntje
7. Aaltje
8. Catharina
9. Marie
10. Joanna
11. Neeltje
12. Grietje
13. Elizabeth
14. Antje
15. Adriana
16. Jannetje

• 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 19 » The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
• March 21 » A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
• April 28 » Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• June 21 » New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
• June 25 » Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

The temperature on November 20, 1788 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: zeer betrokken.