About the day » Thursday January 6, 1791Calender converter

• Adriaantje Verboon, Overschie, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1854)
• Antonius Vanderperren, Wezembeek, 1970, België
• Alberta van der Mee, Millingen aan de Rijn († 1866)
• Barent Kips, Amsterdam († 1792)
• Arend Jansen Karkemeijer, Holten, Rijssen-Holten, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1853)
• Apolonia Vercruysen, Graauw, Hulst, Zeeland, Nl
• Aafje Cornelis Koog, Zwaagdijk († 1848)
• Albert Hindriks LUKKIEN, Veendam, Groningen, NEDERLAND († 1838)
• Albert Hindriks Lukjen, Veendam († 1838)
• Aagje Versloot, Kockengen, Nederland († 1854)

• Aart Jansen, Otterlo
• Anna Maria Binckele (68), Salem, Stokes, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Balthasar Gijsen (35), Elsloo (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Uwijns (60), Amsterdam
• Adrianis Schippers (13), Willemstad
• Fokke Romkes, Foudgum
• Henri Decroos, Mannekensvere
• Anna Cornelia van Dun, Zundert
• Adrianus Verhoeven (65), Leende
• (1) Hendrika (Hendrikie) Harbers (Arbers), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland

• 1766 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, first dictator of Paraguay († 1840)
• 1785 » Andreas Moustoxydis, Greek historian and philologist († 1860)
• 1793 » James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War († 1862)
• 1795 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic († 1871)
• 1799 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author († 1831)
• 1803 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer († 1888)
• 1807 » Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist († 1891)
• 1808 » Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American conchologist and paleontologist († 1864)
• 1811 » Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician († 1874)
• 1822 » Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist and businessman († 1890)

• 1718 » Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1725 » Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1653)
• 1731 » Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)
• 1734 » John Dennis, English playwright and critic (b. 1657)
• 1813 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
• 1829 » Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)
• 1831 » Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1840 » Frances Burney, English author and playwright (b. 1752)
• 1852 » Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
• 1855 » Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779)

• 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 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
• May 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
• September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
• September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
• October 1 » First session of the French Legislative Assembly.

The temperature on January 6, 1791 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: zeer betrokken.