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• Elizabeth Orrick Johnson, Maryland ql († 1857)
• Dympna [Walterus] van der Meeren, Oerle
• Cornelia van der Veer, Leimuiden († 1840)
• Anne Lucinda Lee, Chantilly, Virginia († 1835)
• Anna Maria Van Dijck, Ramsel, Provincie Antwerpen, Flanders, België († 1873)
• Delilah Looper, North Carolina, United States of America († 1873)
• Catharina Klare Pronk, Scheveningen († 1858)
• Antonie Mens, Wouw († 1878)
• Angenita Lubberts Romein, Barneveld
• Anne Marie Thérèse MARQUET, Gray-la-Ville, 70280, Haute Saône, Franche-Comté, France († 1869)

• Constant Joseph LECLERCQ (38), Roubaix, 59512, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Elias Jonsson (0), Ellös, Morlanda (O)
• Friederike Sophie Luise von Heßler (62)
• Gerrit Stijnen (30), ouderkerk aan den ijssel (zuid holland)
• Albert de Kort, Hooge Mierde
• Elizabeth Bowen (65), Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Frederike Sophia Louise van Hessler (68), Buhla, Thüringen
• Helena Eijsonius
• Geertruit Pieters (15)
• Catharina (Trijntje) Bonefaas (57), Delft

• 1747 » Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor († 1792)
• 1749 » Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French pianist and composer († 1794)
• 1764 » Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician († 1812)
• 1800 » Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher († 1864)
• 1813 » Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author († 1855)
• 1818 » Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist († 1883)
• 1826 » Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III († 1920)
• 1830 » John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company († 1906)
• 1832 » Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian († 1918)
• 1833 » Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic († 1905)

• 1705 » Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
• 1760 » Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (b. 1720)
• 1766 » Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
• 1808 » Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757)
• 1821 » Napoleon, French general and emperor (b. 1769)
• 1827 » Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
• 1833 » Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (b. 1777)
• 1855 » Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786)
• 1859 » Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b. 1805)
• 1860 » Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (b. 1804)

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)
• 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 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
• October 9 » A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
• December 6 » The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
• December 17 » The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City.
• December 31 » Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.

The temperature on May 5, 1790 was about 12.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen.