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• Anna Stolwijk, Roosendaal († 1794)
• Anna Maria Eligia Elemans, Huisseling, N-Brabant (NL.) († 1838)
• Aaltje van Lochem, Bergschenhoek
• Anna Catharina Bonus, Elmpt
• Arij Mol, Spijkenisse, Nederland
• Anna S. Martin, Rapho, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1858)
• Aaltje Abes de With, Langezwaag († 1859)
• Claire Jeanne Robbe, Oostende († 1863)
• Catharina Elisabeth Winckels, Landkreis Düsseldorf, Derendorf, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Adriana SMIT, Dordrecht († 1849)

• Anthonie de Heus (67), Ouder-Amstel
• Catharina (Tiarcks) Udema (62), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Catharina Tiarcks Udema (62), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands
• Catharina Tjarcks Udema (62), Oude Pekela
• Grietje Jacobs (39)
• Garrit Jan Walvoort (44)
• Aldegonde Hollans, Romershoven
• Agathe du Buat, Fribourg, Suisse
• Anneken Teunisse Busters (75), Brummen
• Elisabeth Sassmannshausen (0), Elsoff, Kreis Wittgenstein

• 1756 » Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria († 1825)
• 1774 » Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy († 1857)
• 1794 » Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist († 1877)
• 1814 » John Rudolph Niernsee, Viennese-born American architect (d.1885)
• 1815 » Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales († 1896)
• 1818 » Amelia Bloomer, American journalist and activist († 1894)
• 1819 » Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter († 1910)
• 1827 » Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician († 1892)
• 1832 » Zenas Ferry Moody, American surveyor and politician, 7th Governor of Oregon († 1917)
• 1836 » Jay Gould, American businessman and financier († 1892)

• 1675 » Gaspard Dughet, Italian-French painter (b. 1613)
• 1690 » Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1626)
• 1702 » Dominique Bouhours, French priest and critic (b. 1628)
• 1707 » Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
• 1781 » Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1716)
• 1797 » François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist (b. 1760)
• 1831 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799)
• 1840 » Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1867 » Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (b. 1796)
• 1896 » Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)

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)
• 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.
• 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 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
• September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
• 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 27, 1791 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: helder.