About the day » Friday November 7, 1788Calender converter

• Benjamin Hulley, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, England († 1806)
• Coleta VAN DEN BRANDE, Meldert († 1795)
• Anna Catharina de Feber, Hontenisse,Kloosterzande († 1856)
• Anna Theresia Luyten, Mol, België († 1843)
• Antonius van Hecke, Wachtebeke (België)
• Catharina Hulspas, Naaldwijk († 1854)
• Antje Geerts Schuur, Oude Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands († 1827)
• Adriana Theodorus van Helvoort, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1789)
• Arij de Koning, Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Mulder, Amsterdam († 1856)

• Agnes Damas (73), Schinnen
• Alexander Colhoun (83), Rush Hill, Ballyhallachoun, County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland
• Dirk Kruijsweg (Kruijswegh) (68), Leiden, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Mertens (31), Oostham, Limburg, Belgie
• Alexander Colhoun, Jr (83), Rush Hill, Ballyhallachoun, County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland
• Cornelius Henricus van der Herten (0), Beveren, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Catherine Françoise LALOIRE (83), STAVELOT, Liège, Belgique
• Agnes Merendonk van (0), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirk Derksz Kruijsweg (68), Oegstgeest
• Adrianus Josephi VAN MEIR VERMEIREN VERMEEREN (58), Breda, Noord-Brabant (NL)

• 1750 » Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer († 1819)
• 1787 » Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director († 1854)
• 1789 » Alfred Kelley, American legislator, canal builder, and railroad magnate († 1859)
• 1800 » Platt Rogers Spencer, American calligrapher and educator († 1864)
• 1805 » Thomas Brassey, English engineer and businessman († 1870)
• 1818 » Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician and physiologist († 1896)
• 1830 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer († 1907)
• 1832 » Andrew Dickson White, American historian, academic, and diplomat, co-founded Cornell University († 1918)
• 1838 » Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author and playwright († 1889)
• 1843 » William Plankinton, American businessman, industrialist and banker († 1905)

• 1713 » Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• 1809 » Paul Sandby, English painter and cartographer (b. 1725)
• 1837 » Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister and journalist (b. 1809)
• 1862 » Bahadur Shah II, Mughal emperor (b. 1775)
• 1872 » Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1833)
• 1881 » John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
• 1906 » Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
• 1907 » Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman (b. 1881)
• 1913 » Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (b. 1858)

• 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 9 » Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.
• January 18 » The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
• January 19 » The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
• March 6 » The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
• 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.

The temperature on November 7, 1788 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent helder.