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• Anna Maria Helena Rüschen, Wesuwe, Haren († 1847)
• Alexander Garden FRASER, Greenwich, England, United Kingdom († 1858)
• alexandrine HONORE, Dour (Belgium) Hainaut
• Antje Valk (Falk), Zwaag, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1864)
• Adriana Cornelia Billo, Oude Tonge († 1868)
• Adriana Van Disseldorp, Dussen, 4271, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina Testas, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1872)
• Adriana Buijsen, Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1826)
• Aaltjen Grevers, Ratum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Valk, Grootebroek, Stede Broec, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1864)

• Arnoldus, Timmermans (47), Oosterhout
• Albertina Van Der Haegen (61), Sint-Lievens-Essche
• Hendrikjen Schuitert (3), Gorssel
• Catharina Bartolomea Douven (33), Mill
• Herbert│Harpert Houweling, Rotterdam
• Bartholina Catharina Doeven (33), Mill
• Friedrich Sinner (1), Niederlaasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Cornelis Langerak van der Marel (1), Maassluis
• Anna Maria Keel (53), Greenwich, York, Pennsylvania, United States
• Adrianus van GEFFEN (77), Helmond, 3703, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1756 » Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria († 1801)
• 1765 » Eli Whitney, American engineer, invented the cotton gin († 1825)
• 1795 » Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer and mathematician († 1874)
• 1807 » Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist († 1893)
• 1813 » August Belmont, Prussian-American financier and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands († 1890)
• 1815 » Adolph Menzel, German painter and illustrator († 1905)
• 1817 » Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Denmark († 1896)
• 1818 » Charles III, Prince of Monaco († 1889)
• 1822 » Jakov Ignjatović, Hungarian-Serbian author († 1889)
• 1832 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1910)

• 1744 » Marie Anne de Mailly, French mistress of Louis XV of France (b. 1717)
• 1745 » Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist and academic (b. 1683)
• 1746 » Charles Radclyffe, English courtier and soldier (b. 1693)
• 1756 » William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English politician and diplomat, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1690)
• 1768 » Jean Denis Attiret, French painter and missionary (b. 1702)
• 1779 » Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
• 1815 » Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)
• 1830 » Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and author (b. 1767)
• 1856 » Theobald Mathew, Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)
• 1859 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (b. 1785)

• 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)
• August 14 » Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
• August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
• August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
• September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
• September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
• September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

The temperature on December 8, 1791 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: zeer betrokken.