About the day » Tuesday April 15, 1788Calender converter

• Claas Wilmsz Bijstervelt, Overschie
• Auguste TARIN, Saint Nicolas de Pierrepont († 1876)
• Constantia van der Gaag, Maassluis
• Dirk Jans Spanjer, Dronrijp († 1870)
• Barbara Janssen, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1832)
• Cornelis Wijsman, Zoetermeer
• Antonia van Hal, Wamel
• Aldegonde Cuppens, Oerle
• Dirk Cornelis TAVENIER, Westzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• dochter Haijes, Winschoten

• Ernst Barneveld (71), Epe
• Gerritje Gerrits (78), Hattem (GD)
• Christopher Weaver (56), Sleepy Creek, Frederick, Virginia, United States
• Adriana Thomasse Kieboom (73), Steenbergen
• Anton Friedrich von Lützow (68)
• Capt Robert Hicks, Surveyor of Albemarle Co, NC (74), Oxford, Granville, North Carolina
• Ernst Barneveld (71), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Gerritje BREDENHOFF (84), Hattem
• Anna Catharina Saling (58)
• Gerritje Gerrits Bredenhoff (84), Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1771 » Nicolas Chopin, French-Polish educator († 1844)
• 1772 » Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French biologist and zoologist († 1844)
• 1793 » Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer and academic († 1864)
• 1795 » Maria Schicklgruber, mother of Alois Hitler and the paternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler (d.1847)
• 1800 » James Clark Ross, English captain and explorer († 1862)
• 1808 » William Champ, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania († 1892)
• 1809 » Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician († 1877)
• 1817 » William Crowther, Dutch-Australian politician, 14th Premier of Tasmania († 1885)
• 1828 » Jean Danjou, French captain († 1863)
• 1832 » Wilhelm Busch, German poet, painter, and illustrator († 1908)

• 1719 » Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, French wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
• 1754 » Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1676)
• 1761 » Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (b. 1682)
• 1761 » William Oldys, English historian and author (b. 1696)
• 1764 » Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1679)
• 1765 » Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian chemist and physicist (b. 1711)
• 1788 » Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)
• 1793 » Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1718)
• 1854 » Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773)
• 1861 » Sylvester Jordan, Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792)

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)
• February 6 » Massachusetts becomes the sixth 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 7 » American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
• April 28 » Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• May 8 » King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.

The temperature on April 15, 1788 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.