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• Antje van den Berg, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1885)
• Catharina Charlotta Louisa Liesching, Germany († 1870)
• Catharina Hannaert (Hannaart), Leiden († 1832)
• Barendina Albarta Oortwijn, Meppel († 1867)
• Aaltje Noorthoek, Vlaardingen
• Berendina ten CATE, Deventer († 1790)
• Catharina Hannaart, Leiden († 1832)
• Adolf Prinsen, Almelo
• Antje van den Bergh, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1885)
• Anna Catharina Frenken, Sint Odiliënberg († 1857)

• AART KORTELAND (57), ALBLASSERDAM
• Aart Pietersz Korteland (57), Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Bras (4), Den Helder
• Catharina Vossen (23), Roggel
• Denis Joseph Jean "Henri" de Belsunce (24), Caen, Calvados, France
• arie pieters KORTELANDT (57), alblasserdam(ZH)
• Arien Volkertsz van der Wild, Tienhoven (Utrecht)
• Engeltje van der Eijk (69), DE Lier
• Cornelisje Boender (0), Den Helder
• Cornelisje Jans Boender (0), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1762 » George IV of the United Kingdom († 1830)
• 1773 » Karl Faber, Prussian historian and academic († 1853)
• 1774 » Robert Southey, English poet and author († 1843)
• 1831 » Helena Blavatsky, Russian theosophist and scholar († 1891)
• 1852 » Michael J. McGivney, American priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus († 1890)
• 1856 » Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist († 1917)
• 1857 » Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter and educator († 1924)
• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)
• 1860 » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler († 1907)
• 1866 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)

• 1778 » Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire (b. 1714)
• 1809 » Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
• 1810 » Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
• 1822 » Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (b. 1769)
• 1827 » William Blake, English poet and painter (b. 1757)
• 1829 » Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (b. 1760)
• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)

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)
• January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
• January 30 » Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
• April 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• June 17 » In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
• August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
• September 22 » Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.

The temperature on August 12, 1789 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.