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• Anna Catharina Corrijn, Ruiselede West-Vlaanderen België
• Aalbertje Jans (de) Groot, Egmond aan Zee († 1790)
• Aalbertje Jans (de) Groot, Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH) († 1790)
• Anna Judith Witten, Geleen († 1838)
• Abraham Jacobusz van Dijk, Barendrecht, Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Breed, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1859)
• Adriaan van der Meulen, Purmerland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Schuringa, Grijpskerk (Niezijl) († 1834)
• Adriana Elizabeth Vink, Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1827)
• Adriana Elisabet Vink, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1827)

• Anna Maria DE RIDDER (1), Sint-Job-in-'t-Goor, Brecht, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Frans Karel Baron Poutet (46), Straatsburg, Elzas
• geertje knol (30), Wognum
• Agnes van Reventlow (0), Brahetrolleborg Slot, Faaborg, Funen, Denemarken
• Anna Margarita Christina Brunmann, Wildervank
• Geertje Pieters' Knol (29), Wognum
• Agnese Brancaccio (42)
• Johann Joseph Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (56), Prag, Böhmen, Österreich
• Anna Catharina BERGHMANS (27), Kaggevinne Belgie
• Kind van Joannes Sleegers (0), Steensel

• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)
• 1827 » Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum († 1921)
• 1831 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone († 1900)

• 1691 » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)

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)
• March 4 » France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
• July 16 » The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
• August 4 » A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
• October 9 » A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
• December 17 » The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City.
• December 26 » Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.

The temperature on May 16, 1790 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.