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• Anna Maria Elisabeth Courtens, Maastricht, St.Nic († 1831)
• Albert Lefferts Gortworst, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1857)
• Aaltje Luitzens Veenstra, Haulerwijk, gem. Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1870)
• Aaltien Luitjen, Haulerwijk, gem. Ooststellingwerf
• Albert Lefferts Gortworst, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1857)
• Aafje Koster, Binnenwijzend,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1854)
• "Jannetje"n van Oostveen, Tienhoven,, Utrecht, Nederland
• aart BOEREN, numansdorp († 1820)
• Alexander Mittendorff, Het Laar († 1865)
• Adriaan van Dijke, Poortvliet († 1854)

• Beile Norden (35), Lissa, Wlkp., Poland
• Augustinus Allemeersch, Gits,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Cornelia Pieterse Menheere (20)
• Anna Bogaerts (76), Willebroek
• Jan Leijten (50), Waalre (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Allerdina Ebbinge
• Aaltje ten Barge
• Frederick te Voortwisch (van Dondergoor) (86), Henxel
• Joannes Hoppenbrouwers (44), Wouw
• Cecilia Victoria Stange (3), Vladslo

• 1754 » Vicente Martín y Soler, Spanish composer († 1806)
• 1772 » Novalis, German author and poet († 1801)
• 1773 » Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher and poet († 1845)
• 1797 » Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian physician and geologist († 1864)
• 1802 » Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist († 1870)
• 1806 » Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint († 1876)
• 1810 » Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor († 1874)
• 1813 » Caroline Leigh Gascoigne, English novelist and poet († 1883)
• 1815 » William Buell Richards, Canadian lawyer and judge, 1st Chief Justice of Canada († 1889)
• 1822 » Jane Miller Thengberg, Scottish-Swedish governess and educator († 1902)

• 1711 » Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English politician, First Lord of the Treasury (b. 1641)
• 1799 » Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo (b. 1740)
• 1802 » Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch general and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (b. 1762)
• 1810 » Henry Jerome de Salis, English priest (b. 1740)
• 1819 » Mary Moser, English painter and academic (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist (b. 1810)
• 1864 » Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer and educator (b. 1791)
• 1880 » Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)

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)
• January 8 » George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
• 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.
• 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 May 2, 1790 was about 12.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.