About the day » Tuesday December 27, 1791Calender converter

• Abraham LARDé, Leiden († 1841)
• Antje BRUINS, Groningen († 1863)
• Anne LEVESCOT, Verteuil-sur-Charente, 16400, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France
• Adriaan van Weert, Oirschot († 1829)
• Cornelis Jansz POLDERDIJK, Zuid-Beijerland († 1795)
• Cornelia Pals, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1829)
• Anna Maria Brauer, Nordstrand, Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland
• Anna Geertruida van Everdingen, Zoelmond († 1873)
• Adriana Meeuwisd Oostdijck, Fijnaart (N.B.) († 1860)
• Barbara Selleslagh, Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium

• Feijtje Harmens Schouten (62), Laren
• David Grant (88)
• Anna Mechtildis Habets (2), Schinnen
• Hendrik Elle, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Feijtje Harmens Schouten (62), Laren
• Jacob Blits (48), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• GEERTJE DOUWES (41), Gorredijk, Nederland
• Gerardus Ariëns (46), Nederasselt
• JACOB FRANCISCUS JANSE (51), Oud Vossemeer
• françoise DELATTRE (67), Quaregnon (Belgium)

• 1761 » Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Finland († 1818)
• 1773 » George Cayley, English engineer and politician († 1857)
• 1776 » Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general († 1811)
• 1797 » Charles Hodge, American theologian († 1878)
• 1797 » Ghalib, Indian poet († 1869)
• 1803 » François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, Canadian activist († 1839)
• 1809 » Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Greek poet and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece († 1892)
• 1822 » Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist († 1895)
• 1823 » Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada († 1917)
• 1827 » Stanisław Mieroszewski, Polish-born politician, writer, historian and member of the Imperial Council of Austria († 1900)

• 1737 » William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663)
• 1743 » Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659)
• 1771 » Henri Pitot, French engineer, invented the Pitot tube (b. 1695)
• 1776 » Johann Rall, Hessian colonel (b. c. 1726)
• 1782 » Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish judge and philosopher (b. 1697)
• 1800 » Hugh Blair, Scottish minister and author (b. 1718)
• 1812 » Joanna Southcott, English religious leader (b. 1750)
• 1834 » Charles Lamb, English essayist and poet (b. 1775)
• 1836 » Stephen F. Austin, American soldier and politician (b. 1793)
• 1858 » Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (b. 1785)

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)
• July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
• August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
• August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
• August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
• September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
• September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly

The temperature on December 27, 1791 was about 1.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.