About the day » Wednesday July 21, 1790Calender converter

• Alijda van Maaren, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland († 1854)
• Cornelis Frans Adolf de Villeneuve, Leerdam
• Aaltje Poepe, Staphorst-Rouveen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1875)
• Alijda van Maaren Westerveld, Soest
• Cornelis Mes, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barend Sterke, Lemmer, Friesland, Nederland († 1821)
• Anna Margaretha Berendsen, Doesburg
• Albertus Assen
• Barbe Thérèse Verraes, Moorslede († 1806)
• Cornelia van Eijnatten, Rijsbergen, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1793)

• Grietje Pieters Visser (78), Sliedrecht
• Anna Maria Hom (67)
• Daniel Sebus, Dordrecht
• Anna Maria Ilsaben Südmeier (73), Hartum (DE)
• Apollonia Bovenberg, Waverveen,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Isaac PENNING (72), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ida Wesendonk (30)
• Gold Selleck Silliman (58), Fairfield,Connecticut
• Joannes Albertus HERINCKX, Sint-Stevens-Woluwe (B)
• Juliane Bichler (65)

• 1783 » Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, French general († 1853)
• 1808 » Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian, academic, and politician († 1864)
• 1810 » Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist († 1878)
• 1811 » Robert Mackenzie, Scottish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Queensland († 1873)
• 1816 » Paul Reuter, German-English journalist, founded Reuters († 1899)
• 1858 » Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator († 1941)
• 1858 » Lovis Corinth, German painter († 1925)
• 1858 » Maria Christina of Austria († 1929)
• 1863 » C. Aubrey Smith, English-American cricketer and actor († 1948)
• 1866 » Carlos Schwabe, Swiss Symbolist painter and printmaker († 1926)

• 1688 » James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1610)
• 1793 » Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French admiral, explorer, and politician (b. 1739)
• 1796 » Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1759)
• 1798 » Anthony Perry, Irish rebel leader (b. ca. 1760)
• 1798 » François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
• 1868 » William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (b. 1789)
• 1878 » Sam Bass, American outlaw (b. 1851)
• 1880 » Hiram Walden, American general and politician (b. 1800)
• 1889 » Nelson Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
• 1899 » Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1833)

• 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.
• July 16 » The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
• August 2 » The first United States Census is conducted.
• September 25 » Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
• December 31 » Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.

The temperature on July 21, 1790 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken regen.