About the day » Wednesday February 18, 1789Calender converter

• AALBERT HARREWIJN, VLAARDINGEN († 1842)
• Carolus Van den Berghe
• Carolus Bernardus DHONDT, Lissewege,8380,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Johannes Adrianus Baert, Stekene (B) († 1834)
• Adrianus Pijnen, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arij de Goede († 1789)
• Anna Vettewinkel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Willems (Trijntje) Bokstra, Knijpe, 8456, Nederland († 1862)
• Anna Maria de Beukelaer, 's-Gravenwezel
• Christianus Koijen, Tilburg

• Gerrit van der Kolk (1), Wijk aan Duijn
• Adriane Maria De Ridder (45), Sint Lievens Houtem
• "Egidius" Jelis Jelis (59), Niftrik (Wijchen), NL
• Hendrina Kooijman (80), Heusden (NL)
• Arij Pietersz STOLK (96), Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, 6201, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Maartensdr Nieuwenhuijzen, Ter Aar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arij Pietersz Stolk (96), Ouderkerk aan de Ijssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrienne Marie De Ridder, St Lievens Houtem
• Cornelia de Leede (64), Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Hendrik van Dijk (4), Herveld

• 1732 » Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer († 1809)
• 1745 » Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery († 1827)
• 1814 » Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician († 1900)
• 1817 » Lewis Armistead, American general († 1863)
• 1836 » Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi († 1886)
• 1838 » Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1916)
• 1846 » Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager († 1904)
• 1848 » Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist († 1933)
• 1849 » Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician († 1906)
• 1850 » George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor († 1934)

• 1712 » Louis, Dauphin of France, (b. 1682)
• 1743 » Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1667)
• 1748 » Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
• 1772 » Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (b. 1712)
• 1778 » Joseph Marie Terray, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
• 1780 » Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (b. 1714)
• 1788 » John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
• 1803 » Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)
• 1851 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)
• 1873 » Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (b. 1837)

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

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

• 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)
• April 21 » George Washington's reception at Trenton is hosted by the Ladies of Trenton as he journeys to New York City for his first inauguration.
• July 27 » The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
• September 2 » The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
• September 11 » Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• September 15 » The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
• November 20 » New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

The temperature on February 18, 1789 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.