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• Baukje Maria Dibbetz, Duinkerken, France († 1861)
• auguste jh. URBAIN, Pâturages (Belgium) Hainaut († 1855)
• Christian Hendrik Pfeiffer, Delft († 1869)
• Anne Maria DENOOSE, Gooik,1755,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE († 1872)
• Anna Maria van den Broeck, Maren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Eugenia Rosa Vanneste, Moorslede
• CHRISTIAN HENDRIK PFEIFFER, DELFT († 1869)
• Charles de Villeneuve († 1812)
• Antoni Jacobus Hengeveld, Haarlem, Utrecht, Nederland († 1792)
• Alida de Zeeuw, Dordrecht († 1876)

• Franciscus Hubertusz van der Ploeg (71), Voorhout
• Frans van der Ploeg (71), Voorhout
• Eva Hendriksdr Hoek van den (67), Moordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Gertrud Pape (6), Altastenberg, Kreis Brilon
• Adrianus Adrianus MA(T)THIJ(S)SEN (Mathijssen) (48), Zundert,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Frans Huijbertsz PloeG (71), Voorhout
• Franciscus Huijbertsz van der Ploeg (71), Voorhout
• Gouke Geus (0), Den Helder
• Cornelius Vlaeminck (66), Brugge
• Garritjen Enserink (31), Almen (Gorssel, Gelderland)

• 1757 » Manuel Tolsá, Spanish sculptor and first director of the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City († 1816)
• 1767 » Tyagaraja, Indian composer († 1847)
• 1770 » François Gérard, French painter († 1837)
• 1772 » Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher († 1823)
• 1796 » Horace Mann, American educator and politician († 1859)
• 1796 » William H. Prescott, American historian and scholar († 1859)
• 1796 » William Pennington, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1862)
• 1820 » John Whiteaker, American soldier, judge, and politician, 1st Governor of Oregon († 1902)
• 1820 » Julia Gardiner Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States († 1889)
• 1822 » Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec († 1915)

• 1737 » Eustace Budgell, English journalist and politician (b. 1686)
• 1774 » Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (b. 1714)
• 1776 » Jacques Saly, French painter and sculptor (b. 1717)
• 1790 » Matthew Tilghman, American politician (b. 1718)
• 1799 » Tipu, ruler of Mysore (b. 1750)
• 1811 » Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
• 1816 » Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1824 » Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754)
• 1826 » Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan, colonial governor of East Florida, Santo Domingo and Cuba (b. 1757)
• 1839 » Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)

• 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.
• 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.
• September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
• 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.

The temperature on May 4, 1791 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht.