About the day » Tuesday December 13, 1791Calender converter

• Apollonia Jacoba Verbraak, Rotterdam († 1854)
• Anna Jans, Oploo, Nbr.NL († 1861)
• Anna Maria Wehkamp, Schepsdorf, Duitsland
• benoit GOBERT, Wasmes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Bastiaan TIGCHELMAN, Ooltgensplaat († 1819)
• Anna Maria Kremers, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1843)
• Akke Oekes van der STOK, Harlingen,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland († 1874)
• Anna Catharina Van Den Bosch, Broechem († 1859)
• Adrianus Thomassen Doijer
• Barbara Gaens, Moerbeke († 1863)

• Guurtje Pieters' Kleijn (34), Abbekerk
• Gerardus Peerboom (18), Groesbeek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andreas Walterus van der Ouderaa (59), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dorothea Elisabeth Niehoff (27), Darlingerode (Landkrs. Harz, Sachsen-Anhalt)
• Gerritje Gerritsen (0), Velp (Rheden)
• Arie Ariens Groen (56)
• Catherine Mulders (46), St. George Ameren (D)
• Bernardus Van Camp, Schriek, Heist-op-Den-Berg, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Aaltje Sijmonsd Bakker (43), Bovenkarspel
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• 1769 » James Scarlett Abinger, English judge († 1844)
• 1780 » Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist, invented the Döbereiner's lamp († 1849)
• 1784 » Archduke Louis of Austria († 1864)
• 1797 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist, poet, and critic († 1856)
• 1804 » Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia († 1873)
• 1814 » Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse and philanthropist († 1880)
• 1816 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded Siemens († 1892)
• 1818 » Mary Todd Lincoln, 16th First Lady of the United States († 1882)
• 1830 » Mathilde Fibiger, Danish feminist, novelist and telegraphist († 1892)
• 1836 » Franz von Lenbach, German painter and academic († 1904)

• 1721 » Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (b. 1676)
• 1729 » Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (b. 1676)
• 1754 » Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1696)
• 1758 » Noël Doiron, Canadian Acadia leader (b. 1684)
• 1769 » Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and hymn-writer (b. 1715)
• 1783 » Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717)
• 1784 » Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (b. 1709)
• 1814 » Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Belgian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)
• 1837 » Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (b. 1756)
• 1849 » Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, German botanist and entomologist (b. 1766)

• 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 10 » The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
• March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
• March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
• May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
• August 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
• December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

The temperature on December 13, 1791 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: zeer betrokken.