About the day » Monday April 13, 1789Calender converter

• Albertus Horstman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1840)
• Aaltjen Aaltien Adams Meijer, Holthaar, De Wolden, Drenthe, Nederland († 1850)
• Arend Kalfsterman, Almen († 1850)
• Anna Maria Pothuizen, Tull en 't Waal († 1860)
• Anna Brouwer, Epe († 1831)
• Anna Maria Hindriks, Beerta († 1792)
• Anna Van Doninckx, Herentals († 1829)
• Anne Catharine van Driessche, Temse († 1838)
• Anna Cornelia Hoefs HOES, Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1873)
• Aaltje Adams Meyer, Ruinen, Drenthe, The Netherlands

• Adrien François LENGLENT (64), Bours(62)... Hauts de France
• Ariaantje Jansd Quack (79), heenvliet
• Arie Baan, Hoge en Lafe Zwaaluwe
• Aart Gerritsen van Renesse (79)
• Cornelis van der Meer, Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis (3571) van der Meer (0), Alkemade,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clara van Det (64), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Dirksdr Korpershoek (61), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Gerritsen Van Rennes (79), Bennekom, Ede
• Clara Deth (64), Amsterdam, Nederland

• 1764 » Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and politician, French Minister of War († 1830)
• 1769 » Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator († 1830)
• 1771 » Richard Trevithick, Cornish-English engineer and explorer († 1833)
• 1780 » Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse († 1868)
• 1784 » Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal († 1877)
• 1787 » John Robertson, American lawyer and politician († 1873)
• 1794 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic († 1867)
• 1802 » Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and herpetologist († 1884)
• 1808 » Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer († 1889)
• 1810 » Félicien David, French composer († 1876)

• 1716 » Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, English admiral and politician (b. 1648)
• 1722 » Charles Leslie, Irish priest and theologian (b. 1650)
• 1793 » Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French botanist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1763)
• 1794 » Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright and poet (b. 1741)
• 1826 » Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (b. 1763)
• 1853 » James Iredell, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788)
• 1853 » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (b. 1788)
• 1855 » Henry De la Beche, English geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1796)
• 1868 » Tewodros II of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
• 1880 » Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist and author (b. 1813)

• 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 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• April 28 » Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
• July 14 » Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
• September 2 » The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
• 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 April 13, 1789 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.