About the day » Sunday January 11, 1789Calender converter

• Adriaantje Jacobusse de Rijke, Sint-Annaland
• Anna (Johanna) Bruins Slot, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1839)
• Adriaan Lievensz de Meulmeester, Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland († 1843)
• Albert Dieterich Deetert, Amsterdam
• Anje KLASEN, Ulrum
• Adriaan de Wert, Best
• Anje Kornelis
• Andries Wossink, Zelhem
• Anna Bruins Slot, Hoogeveen († 1839)
• Andries Wossink, Zelhem

• Frerik Harkes Stubbe (54), Enkhuizen
• Gatske (Gotske) (53), Joure, Friesland, Nederland
• Gatske Pykes Hylckema (53), Joure, Skarsterl-N, Friesland, Netherlands
• Catharina van Doesburgh (76), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Georg Andreas Siemens (88), Ohlhof, Goslar, Nedersaksen
• Gotske Pykes Hylckama (53), De Jouer Oldebekoop
• Gatske Pykes (53), De Jouwer
• Gatske Pykes Hylckama (53)
• Antonie Omon (0), Aardenburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Berent Willem Dulmes (50), Winterswijk

• 1755 » Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian-American general, economist and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1804)
• 1757 » Samuel Bentham, English engineer and architect († 1831)
• 1760 » Oliver Wolcott Jr., American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 24th Governor of Connecticut († 1833)
• 1777 » Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader († 1837)
• 1786 » Joseph Jackson Lister, English physicist († 1869)
• 1788 » William Thomas Brande, English chemist and academic († 1866)
• 1800 » Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer († 1895)
• 1807 » Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University († 1874)
• 1814 » James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist († 1899)
• 1815 » John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada († 1891)

• 1753 » Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (b. 1660)
• 1757 » Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1688)
• 1762 » Louis-François Roubiliac, French-English sculptor (b. 1695)
• 1763 » Caspar Abel, German poet, historian, and theologian (b. 1676)
• 1771 » Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher and author (b. 1704)
• 1788 » François Joseph Paul de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
• 1791 » William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh composer and poet (b. 1717)
• 1798 » Heraclius II of Georgia (b. 1720)
• 1801 » Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator (b. 1749)
• 1824 » Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1736)

• 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 20 » George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
• July 15 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
• August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
• September 29 » The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
• September 29 » The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• October 3 » George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.

The temperature on January 11, 1789 was about -2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw.