About the day » Sunday December 18, 1791Calender converter

• Aalbert Maasland, Lexmond, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Willems Vlaanderen, Huizen
• Abraham van Lom, Gorinchem († 1796)
• Aaron Mills, Deep River, Guilford, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1850)
• Ida Hindriks Wiltjer, Schilwolde († 1877)
• Amilia Gerardina Sytzama, Idaard
• Albert Jans FRIELING, Ulrum († 1870)
• Adriaan van Vugt, Sprang, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Jans van der Weg, Wilsum, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aalbert Maasland, Ameide of Lexmond

• Hilletje Brants Hienekamp. (63), Lunteren, Nederland
• Hilletje Brants Henekamp (63), Lunteren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jaapje Swaan (40)
• Adriana Boomsma (0), Lemmer
• Adriana Boomsma (0), Lemmer (Friesland)
• Helena Cornelisz (62), .Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• HILLETJE BRANTS HIJNEKAMP (63), Lunteren
• Elisabeth Upton Gravin Langford
• Cornelis Frans Adolf Villeneuve (1), Leerdam
• Hilletje Heinekamp (63), Lunteren

• 1734 » Jean-Baptiste Rey, French conductor and composer († 1810)
• 1800 » James Watney, English brewer and businessman († 1884)
• 1824 » John Hall, English-New Zealand politician, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1907)
• 1825 » Charles Griffin, American general († 1876)
• 1825 » John S. Harris, American surveyor and politician († 1906)
• 1835 » Lyman Abbott, American minister, theologian, and author († 1922)
• 1847 » Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer († 1903)
• 1849 » Henrietta Edwards, Canadian activist and author († 1931)
• 1851 » Graciano López Jaena, Filipino journalist († 1896)
• 1856 » J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)

• 1737 » Antonio Stradivari, Italian instrument maker (b. 1644)
• 1787 » Soame Jenyns, English poet and politician (b. 1704)
• 1799 » Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and historian (b. 1725)
• 1803 » Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian, and poet (b. 1744)
• 1829 » Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (b. 1744)
• 1843 » Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and politician (b. 1748)
• 1848 » Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (b. 1781)
• 1864 » José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Joannes
7. Gerrit
8. Willem
9. Jacob
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Klaas
14. Adrianus
15. Leendert
16. John

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Johanna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Joanna
8. Trijntje
9. Grietje
10. Neeltje
11. Marie
12. Aaltje
13. Adriana
14. Antje
15. Jannetje
16. Elizabeth

• 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)
• February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
• March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
• May 3 » The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
• September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
• September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

The temperature on December 18, 1791 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: betrokken mist.