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• van de Huijgevoort, Hoogeloon
• Angelina VAN DEN BERGHE
• Ariaantje Jacobse de Koter, ZEVENHUIZEN (Zuidplas), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1849)
• Albert Joseph HANOTEL, Auchel,62260,Pas-de-Calais,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1870)
• Adriaantje Jacobs Stoffbergen (Stopberg), Vlaardingen († 1867)
• Christiaan Jacob van Ellinkhuysen, .Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1821)
• Bouke Obbes Bijsterveld, Uithuizen († 1836)
• Cornelia Arnolda Prillevits, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Alot, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1831)
• Albertus Schenning, Kilder († 1869)

• Esken Voortman Nijenes (0), Geesteren
• Benoite BRANCHE (72), La Gresle,42460,Loire,Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,FRANCE
• Arnoldus HOEVENEIRS (28), Wouw (N.Br. Nl)
• Jacomyna van Lieshout (0), Helmond
• Egbertus van Dijk (2), Wanroij
• Anthonius Verhoef(f) (7), Nieuwkoop en Noorden,Alphen aan de Rijn,Zuid Holland,Nederland
• Adriaan Philipszn van der Flier (72), Wijk en Aalburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Elizabeth Locke (34), Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States
• Adriaan Philips van der FLIER (73), Aalburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• 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)

• 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 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 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
• September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
• September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
• December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

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