About the day » Sunday September 20, 1789Calender converter

• Albert Geerts Oosting, Buinen, gem.Borger, Nederland († 1852)
• Aleijda Havekes, Hall
• Adriaantje Visser, Zuid-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1832)
• Aaltjen Lamberts Veldkamp, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Veldkamp, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Ariesz († 1832)
• Aaltjen Alberts Voorhorst, Olst, Overijssel, Nederland († 1852)
• Anna Lat(h)er, Lohra († 1853)
• Agatha van den Berg, Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aldegondis van Ham, Bergeijk († 1830)

• Anna Barbara Wils (0), Boom, Antwerpen, België
• Jean Romain Beaulieu (0), Riviere Ouelle, Quebec, Canada
• Dirck van Dodewaart (1)
• Anna Elisabeth Wilhelmina van Münchhausen (67)
• Jean PIPELERS (65), Heers (Mettekoven),3870,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Elizabeth Dalton (4), RUGBY Warwickshire England
• Elsken Bergmann gen. Mostersteg (77), Götterswickerhamm (D)
• Jan Houten, van den (3)
• Antonius van den Akker (1), Delft,-
• Gerrit Johannesz SCHMAHL (3)

• 1746 » Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer († 1786)
• 1758 » Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor († 1806)
• 1778 » Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer († 1852)
• 1800 » Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer († 1879)
• 1815 » Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania († 1869)
• 1819 » Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor († 1895)
• 1820 » John F. Reynolds, American general († 1863)
• 1831 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator († 1917)
• 1833 » Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1918)
• 1842 » James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist († 1923)

• 1793 » Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (b. 1764)
• 1803 » Robert Emmet, Irish commander (b. 1780)
• 1815 » Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725)
• 1839 » Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
• 1840 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
• 1845 » Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)
• 1852 » Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
• 1855 » José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
• 1863 » Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (b. 1785)
• 1884 » Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (b. 1802)

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. John

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)
• January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
• April 1 » In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
• September 26 » George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
• September 29 » The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• November 21 » North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
• November 26 » A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.

The temperature on September 20, 1789 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.