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• Cornelius Langenhuijsen, Rosmalen, Nederland
• Cornelius Arnoldi van Langenhuijsen, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Claas Gieling, Zwaag, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Hilbert
• Adrianus Huybrechts, Lillo, Provincie Antwerpen
• Anna Maria LANGEN, Kessel, Limburg, Nederland († 1881)
• Anna Adriaansdr de Jong, Waspik
• Dirske Aarts van Rijswijk, Almkerk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Vervoort, Werchter († 1792)
• Bouke Obbes Bijsterveld, Uithuizen († 1836)

• Joanna van Wanroij (28), Loon Op Zand, Hollande
• Hubertus Franciscus Hermans
• Jacomyna van Lieshout (0), Helmond
• Joanna van Wanroij (28), Loon op Zand
• Geertje Klaasd Bakker, Blokker
• Barbara Van Snick (72), Sint-Antelinks, Oost-Vlaanderen, Graafschap Vlaanderen
• Geertje Claas Bakker (34), Westerblokker Blokker, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Ernestine Catharina van Kottwitz (90)
• Engelbertus Franciscus Costenoble (0), Sint-Pieters-Kapelle
• Catharina JENNES (73), Oelegem, Ranst, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium

• 1763 » Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist († 1829)
• 1788 » Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator († 1866)
• 1801 » William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State († 1872)
• 1804 » Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten († 1894)
• 1819 » Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet († 1890)
• 1821 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician († 1894)
• 1824 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general († 1893)
• 1824 » Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President († 1920)
• 1827 » Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum († 1921)
• 1831 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone († 1900)

• 1696 » Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
• 1703 » Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)
• 1778 » Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)
• 1790 » Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)
• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)

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)
• March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
• May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
• September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
• September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
• September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
• November 4 » Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.

The temperature on May 16, 1791 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.