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• Aaltje Jans Oudman, Sebaldeburen († 1847)
• angélique POSTIAU, Cuesmes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Aaaltje van Maanen, Kortenhoef, Nederland
• Aagje Water, Westzaandam († 1856)
• Adriana van der Graaf, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht(ZH) († 1860)
• Aaltje JANS, Sebaldeburen, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland († 1792)
• Alegonda Bijveldts, Boekel († 1793)
• Anna Elisabeth Willems, Vorselaar, België († 1856)
• Aagje Antonies DEUTEKOM, De Rijp,Noord-Holland,Netherlands († 1857)
• Adriaantje Janse Meeldijk, Bruinisse

• Adam (S V) SIEDEL
• angenietje opentij (68), amsterdam, noord holland, nederland
• Everardus JANISSEN (42), Swalmen
• Elisabetha Margretha Theis (0), Arborn, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany
• Elisabeth Lourens van Rijsewijk
• Hezekiah Ezekiah Massey (73), Franklin, North Carolina, United States
• Heinrich Johann Brinkmann (71), Sudmerzen (BRD)
• Hermann Heinrich Eckelmann (53)
• Caspar Clemens, Düsseldorf, Bilk, Rheinland, Deutschland
• bauduin BEUGNIES (47), Jemappes (Belgium) Hainaut

• 1753 » Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and rebel leader († 1811)
• 1786 » John Vianney, French priest and saint († 1859)
• 1815 » Edward Tompkins, American lawyer and politician († 1872)
• 1818 » Samuel Leonard Tilley, Canadian pharmacist and politician, 3rd Premier of New Brunswick († 1896)
• 1821 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist († 1885)
• 1824 » William Walker, American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary († 1860)
• 1825 » George Bruce Malleson, English-Indian colonel and author († 1898)
• 1828 » Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk and saint († 1898)
• 1828 » Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate († 1910)
• 1829 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer († 1869)

• 1766 » Samuel Chandler, English minister and author (b. 1693)
• 1773 » Ali Bey al-Kabir, Egyptian sultan (b. 1728)
• 1781 » Richard Jago, English priest and poet (b. 1715)
• 1782 » Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
• 1785 » Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1719)
• 1785 » Pietro Longhi, Italian painter (b. 1701)
• 1788 » Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1723)
• 1794 » Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (b. 1743)
• 1819 » Kamehameha I, king of the Hawaiian Islands
• 1822 » John Stark, American general (b. 1728)

• 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)
• January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
• June 21 » King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
• September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
• September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
• September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
• November 9 » Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.

The temperature on May 8, 1791 was about 7.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north. Weather type: zeer betrokken.