About the day » Wednesday March 16, 1791Calender converter

• Anna Custers, Venray, Li.NL. († 1858)
• Anna Gesina Wegener, Graes, Wessum, Borken, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Albert Helder, Enkhuizen
• Adriaan Meeuwesen, Baarle Nassau
• Aart van Herpen, Heerewaarden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaan Meeuwesen (Meeusen), Baarle Nassau NB NL
• Adrianus TEURLINGS, Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1859)
• Adriaan Tuerlings, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1859)
• Anna Catrina BOUMAN, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaron Stocksdale, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States († 1867)

• Erzsébet Vajda (4), Furta, Hajdu-Bihar
• Cecilia van der Vuick (74), Delft
• Catharina Betraeij (53), Swolgen
• Fijtje Claasse Jongkind (75), Leerbroek, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anne JACQUES FASSOTTE (88), Retinne, Liège, Wallonie, BELGIQUE
• Albertina STEURBAUT (59), Beerlegem,9630,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anne FASSOTTE (88), Fléron,4620,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Jan Cornelis Peter Mutsaerts- (92), Tilburg, Nederland
• Jacob Cornelisz. Borsboom (67), Wassenaar
• Joannes Garrit Henric Schmeing (7), Südlohn, Ahaus, Westfalen, Preußen, Deutschland

• 1774 » Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer († 1814)
• 1789 » Francis Rawdon Chesney, English general and explorer († 1872)
• 1789 » Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician († 1854)
• 1794 » Ami Boué, Austrian geologist and ethnographer († 1881)
• 1797 » Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist († 1864)
• 1799 » Anna Atkins, English botanist and photographer († 1871)
• 1800 » Emperor Ninkō of Japan († 1846)
• 1805 » Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician († 1861)
• 1806 » Félix De Vigne, Belgian painter († 1862)
• 1808 » Hannah T. King, British-born American writer and pioneer († 1886)

• 1721 » James Craggs the Elder, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1657)
• 1736 » Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1710)
• 1737 » Benjamin Wadsworth, American minister and academic (b. 1670)
• 1738 » George Bähr, German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (b. 1666)
• 1747 » Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1690)
• 1838 » Nathaniel Bowditch, American captain and mathematician (b. 1773)
• 1841 » Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist († 1791)
• 1868 » David Wilmot, American politician, sponsor of Wilmot Proviso (b. 1814)
• 1884 » Art Croft, American baseball player (b. 1855)
• 1888 » Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (b. 1801)

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)
• August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
• August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
• September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
• September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
• September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
• December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

The temperature on March 16, 1791 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: betrokken mist.