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• Balthazar Fredericus Joannes van Middachten, Colmschate, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1806)
• Auke Jans Burema, Westerlee (gem. Oldambt) († 1814)
• Albert Jans van der Kolk, Lenthe, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrienne Jeanne Guillemine Mosset, Den Haag († 1864)
• Binke Jans Reitsma, Vrouwenparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands
• ANNA MARGARETHA VAN GORP († 1855)
• Albert Hendriks Vierhuizen, Oldebroek, Nederland
• Adrienne Jeanne Guillemina Mosset, Den Haag
• Amarentia Briel, amsterdam, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Lutz, Edingen, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany († 1837)

• Elisabeth van den Berge (41), Culemborg
• Christian Walliser (81)
• Jacobus Jansen (1), Duiven
• Adrianus Grootenboer (3), Breda
• Anne-Marie SIMON (57), Fraiture,4557,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Gijsberta Winking (39)
• Cornelis Baanen (59), krimpen aan den ijssel (zuid holland)
• Geertje Bourgonje (84), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clasina Schats (44), Roelofarendsveen
• Geertje Bourgonje (84), Delft, Nederland

• 1764 » John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist († 1831)
• 1769 » Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat († 1835)
• 1770 » Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general († 1843)
• 1778 » Pierre Bretonneau, French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy († 1862)
• 1781 » Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader († 1830)
• 1782 » Alexander Macomb, American general († 1841)
• 1783 » Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian († 1859)
• 1791 » Anne Lister, English diarist, mountaineer, and traveller (d.1840)
• 1798 » Charles Wilkes, American admiral, geographer, and explorer (d.1877)
• 1807 » Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer († 1877)

• 1717 » Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (b. 1640)
• 1728 » James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (b. 1662)
• 1792 » George Pocock, English admiral (b. 1706)
• 1804 » Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest, historian, and author (b. 1727)
• 1827 » Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (b. 1756)
• 1838 » François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician and author (b. 1780)
• 1844 » Edward Bigge, English cleric, 1st Archdeacon of Lindisfarne (b. 1807)
• 1846 » William Braine, English soldier and explorer (b. 1814)
• 1849 » Juliusz Słowacki, Polish-French poet and playwright (b. 1809)
• 1868 » Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and surgeon (b. 1796)

• 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.
• April 7 » American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
• May 8 » King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.
• June 21 » New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
• July 26 » New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
• September 13 » The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.

The temperature on April 3, 1788 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht.