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• Barend ten Brinke, Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• "Johanna" Jenneke Jenneke, Gennep, NL († 1847)
• Apolonia Francisca DE KEYZER, Westkerke
• Antonius de Croon, Best, Nederland († 1821)
• Arnoldus van Goch, Nijmegen, Nederland († 1842)
• Constance Eugenie Louise de Vinchant
• Aaltjen Haftenkamp, Groningen († 1860)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Westphal, Beckerwitz (Hohenkirchen), Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ksp. Hohenkirchen († 1874)
• Anna Catharina Wijnands, Meerssen († 1860)
• Adriaan Leeuw, Dreischor, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1868)

• Gertrud Böhl (7), Dotzlar, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Aaltje van Veelen (3), Beekbergen
• Elisabetha Boeren (64), Breda
• Aleida Alberts Mossel (54), Schokland
• Clasijntje Varkevisser (56), Scheveningen
• Arnoud van Meggelen (6), Brielle
• Anna Hogervorst (0), Pijnaker
• cornelis trommel (65), dirksland (goeree overflakkee)
• Clazina Dirkse Varkevisser (56), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Gerit Teunis de Bijl (73), Lith, Nederland

• 1749 » Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning († 1841)
• 1753 » Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American pastor and botanist († 1815)
• 1755 » Louis XVIII, king of France († 1824)
• 1765 » Jacques MacDonald, French general († 1840)
• 1769 » Charlotte Georgine, duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz († 1818)
• 1790 » August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer († 1868)
• 1793 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter, historian, and academic († 1865)
• 1816 » August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer and historian († 1876)
• 1827 » Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian journalist and poet († 1895)
• 1835 » Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio († 1915)

• 1747 » Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (b. 1668)
• 1768 » Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693)
• 1776 » James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1710)
• 1780 » Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1720)
• 1796 » Catherine the Great, of Russia (b. 1729)
• 1808 » David Zeisberger, Czech-American pastor and missionary (b. 1721)
• 1812 » John Walter, English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (b. 1738/1739)
• 1818 » Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744)
• 1835 » Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (b. 1758)
• 1865 » James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Jacob
8. Joannes
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Klaas
14. John
15. Arie
16. Jean

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Trijntje
8. Grietje
9. Marie
10. Joanna
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Adriana
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Jannetje

• 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)
• 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.
• August 2 » The first United States Census is conducted.
• October 22 » Northwest Indian War: Native American forces defeat the United States in the Harmar Campaign.
• December 6 » The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
• December 31 » Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.

The temperature on November 17, 1790 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken.