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• Christoffel Tinkelenberg, Hoorn († 1846)
• Barend, Harderwijk
• Cornelis van Beek
• Anna Gertrudis Schuppen, Mechelen-Wittem, Limburg, Nederland († 1863)
• Catharina HAENEN, Maasbree, 2918, Limburg, Nederland († 1847)
• "Alphonse" Marie Louis de Lamartine, Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire, France († 1869)
• Barbara Whyte, Inverallochy, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom († 1866)
• Catharina Margaretha Planthafer, Thandorf (D) († 1832)
• Arnold Frans Jacob Baron Sloet van Lindenhorst, Deventer,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1855)
• Cor Feldpausch, Mill († 1863)

• Annitje Sieuwerts (61), Westzaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Minckel (70), Kirchberg, Niedenstein, Allemagne
• Derk (Dirk) den Hartog (33), Weesp, NH, The Netherlands
• Dirk den HARTOG (33), Weesp,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christoffel van Ettinger (88), Voorburg
• Cornelis Crijnsz Barendregt, Charlois, zh.nld
• Christoffel van EttingeN, Voorburg
• Henrich Wagener (43), Laaspherhütte,Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Cornelis Jacobsz Bijl (6), Heenvliet
• Anna Katharina Kloppmeijer, Lingerich-Duitsland

• 1757 » Pierre Augereau, French general († 1816)
• 1762 » Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch general, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies († 1818)
• 1772 » Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, and critic († 1834)
• 1775 » Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest, composer, and critic († 1844)
• 1790 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician, French Head of State († 1869)
• 1811 » Filippo Colini, Italian operatic baritone († 1863)
• 1821 » Sims Reeves, English tenor and actor († 1900)
• 1833 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize († 1896)
• 1845 » Will Carleton, American poet and journalist († 1912)
• 1847 » Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet and playwright († 1906)

• 1765 » Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
• 1775 » Peyton Randolph, American lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
• 1777 » Samuel Foote, English actor and playwright (b. 1720)
• 1805 » George Duff, Scottish captain (b. 1764)
• 1805 » Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (b. 1758)
• 1805 » John Cooke, English captain (b. 1763)
• 1821 » Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752)
• 1835 » Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (b. 1775)
• 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
• 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)

• 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)
• May 29 » Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original Thirteen Colonies to ratify the Constitution and become one of the United States.
• July 9 » The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
• July 12 » The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
• July 16 » The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
• October 9 » A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
• December 31 » Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.

The temperature on October 21, 1790 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: zeer betrokken.