About the day » Thursday February 17, 1791Calender converter

• , Pfalzdorf, Goch, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland († 1856)
• Abraham Wijnands, Nijkerk
• Catherine Rose Vandepitte, Passchendaele
• Amelia Meulenyser, Merelbeke
• Catharina NÜSSLE († 1859)
• Antje Aukes de Boer, Lippenhuizen, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1827)
• Catharina Eddleman, North Carolina, United States
• Anna Maria van Valkenburg, Oss († 1870)
• Alida Krijne Roeleveld, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1886)
• Catharina Ariensd Rodenburg, Hazerswoude-Dorp († 1870)

• Annigie van den Joanna (36), Schalkwijk
• Ebeltje Blaauw (33), Enkhuizen
• Joseph Fiset (71), Portneuf, Quebec, Canada
• Anton Wenzel Graaf Wratislau van Mitrowitz-Schönfeld (34)
• Catharina Albertine Huyghe (23), Moorslede
• "Anton Wenzel" Franz Josef Procop Cölestin Wratislaw von Mitrovic (34)
• Josua BUSNAC (34), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jean Baptiste Bouchard (72), Baie St Paul, Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada
• Barbe MARCARD (58), Ramonchamp, 88
• Cornelia Blaas (32), Schalkwijk,, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1752 » Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German author and playwright († 1831)
• 1754 » Nicolas Baudin, French cartographer and explorer († 1803)
• 1758 » John Pinkerton, Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian († 1826)
• 1781 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope († 1826)
• 1796 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist († 1866)
• 1817 » Édouard Thilges, Luxembourgian jurist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg († 1904)
• 1820 » Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer († 1881)
• 1821 » Lola Montez, Irish-American actress and dancer († 1861)
• 1832 » Richard Henry Park, American sculptor († 1902)
• 1836 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish author, poet, and playwright († 1870)

• 1680 » Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English politician (b. 1599)
• 1715 » Antoine Galland, French orientalist and archaeologist (b. 1646)
• 1732 » Louis Marchand, French organist and composer (b. 1669)
• 1768 » Arthur Onslow, English lawyer and politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1691)
• 1841 » Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1849 » María de las Mercedes Barbudo, Puerto Rican political activist, the first woman Independentista in the island (b. 1773)
• 1854 » John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)

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. John
16. Leendert

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 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
• 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 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
• August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
• September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.

The temperature on February 17, 1791 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken.