About the day » Sunday October 18, 1789Calender converter

• (Jo)zina Zuurveld, kortgene (z) († 1856)
• Albert Harms Schonewille, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1852)
• Alida Geertruya Kolff, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL († 1831)
• Alida Geertruida Kolff, Rotterdam († 1831)
• Albert Harms SCHONEWILLE, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1852)
• Albertien (Albertie Henderiks) Hendriks, Gieten, Drenthe, Nederland († 1866)
• Albert Harms Stoffers, Hoogeveen († 1852)
• Albert Harms Stoffers, Hoogeveen Hoogeveen
• Adélaïde Aimee Louise Joséphine de Sainte-Aldegonde, Arrigny, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France
• Albert Harms (Stoffers) Schonewille, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1852)

• Geertrui Jansd VISSER (11)
• Arendina Willemina Henselaar (34), Borculo
• Jacobus Verfaillie (70), Izegem (België-West-Vlaanderen)
• Jan Schutte (33), Amsterdam, Heiligewegs-en Leidsche Kerkhof
• eeuwit TANIS (59)
• Anna Bussier (57), Enschede
• Brechtje Michiels (34), Thesinge
• Eeuwit Isaacse Tanis (60), Ouddorp
• Christian Kannenberg (76), Cröchern,Börde,Sachsen-Anhalt,Bundesrepublick Deutschland
• Catharina Libeton (62)

• 1741 » Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author († 1803)
• 1777 » Heinrich von Kleist, German author and poet († 1811)
• 1785 » Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet († 1866)
• 1792 » Lucas Alamán, Mexican politician and historian († 1853)
• 1804 » Mongkut, Thai king († 1868)
• 1822 » Midhat Pasha, Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1883)
• 1831 » Frederick III, German Emperor († 1888)
• 1836 » Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz († 1911)
• 1850 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic († 1935)
• 1854 » Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer († 1911)

• 1739 » António José da Silva, Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705)
• 1744 » Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)
• 1770 » John Manners, Marquess of Granby, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1721)
• 1775 » Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
• 1817 » Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French pianist and composer (b. 1763)
• 1865 » Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
• 1871 » Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
• 1876 » Francis Preston Blair, American journalist (b. 1791)
• 1886 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796)
• 1889 » Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808)

• 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.).
• July 12 » In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
• July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
• September 2 » The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
• November 21 » North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
• December 11 » The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.

The temperature on October 18, 1789 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.