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• Barbe WERSINGER, Riedisheim, 68, Haut Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE († 1835)
• Ansel Townsend Briggs, Greenfield, Massachusetts († 1855)
• amande MARTIN, Wihéries (Belgium) Hainaut
• Baaltje Jans de Pijper, Brielle († 1858)
• Adriana Wilhelmusd Van 't HOF, Numansdorp
• Aukjen Ynzes Haitsma, Allingawier, Sudwest-Fryslan, Friesland, Netherlands († 1848)
• Arie Hulsman, Alfen (D)
• Anna Maria Beekman, Amsterdam
• Anna Zwaantje Scheper, Amsterdam († 1875)
• Baaltje de Pijper, Brielle († 1858)

• Jannetje Hendriks Boonen (2), Putten
• Jan ter Braak alias Morsink uit Wiene
• Ingetje Cornelis van Dalen (71), Ridderkerk, Holland (South), Netherlands
• Ida van der Foelart, Goirle
• Ida van der Foelaert, Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirk Schavemaker
• Jannetje Boonen (2), Putten
• Ignatius Maes (0), Temse
• antoine becu (86), amsterdam
• Elisabeth Dreisbach (62), Weidenhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein

• 1752 » Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German author and playwright († 1831)
• 1754 » Nicolas Baudin, French cartographer and explorer († 1803)
• 1758 » John Pinkerton, Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian († 1826)
• 1781 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope († 1826)
• 1796 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist († 1866)
• 1817 » Édouard Thilges, Luxembourgian jurist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg († 1904)
• 1820 » Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer († 1881)
• 1821 » Lola Montez, Irish-American actress and dancer († 1861)
• 1832 » Richard Henry Park, American sculptor († 1902)
• 1836 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish author, poet, and playwright († 1870)

• 1680 » Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English politician (b. 1599)
• 1715 » Antoine Galland, French orientalist and archaeologist (b. 1646)
• 1732 » Louis Marchand, French organist and composer (b. 1669)
• 1768 » Arthur Onslow, English lawyer and politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1691)
• 1841 » Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1849 » María de las Mercedes Barbudo, Puerto Rican political activist, the first woman Independentista in the island (b. 1773)
• 1854 » John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)

• 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 31 » The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
• July 9 » The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
• August 2 » The first United States Census is conducted.
• October 9 » A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
• November 1 » Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
• December 31 » Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.

The temperature on February 17, 1790 was about 4.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.