About the day » Sunday May 8, 1791Calender converter

• Aaltje Jans or Oudman, Sebaldeburen, Grootegast,Groningen, Nederland († 1792)
• Aagje Hendrikse Veldhuizen, Leusden († 1843)
• Aartje Bendervoet, Polsbroek
• Annegie Poppes, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertien Potze, Ter Apel (Vlagtwedde) († 1794)
• Annetje Dirks Plokker, Katwijk
• Aaltje Jans Oudman, Sebaldeburen († 1847)
• Annetje Dirks Plokker, Katwijk aan Zee
• Aagje Antonis Deutekom, De Rijp, Nederland († 1857)
• Aart de Munnick, Zoetermeer († 1791)

• Emerence Groenendaels (41), Vliermaal
• Hillebrand Gerbens (0), Gerkesklooster, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis van der Lem (0), Rijswijk, impost pro deo
• ernestine romaine BOCHON (1), Monceau (Belgium) Hainaut
• Gerardus Schellart (26), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Cornelia van den Houten (43)
• BARBARA NAUDTS (28), SINAAI,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Aleida Borkens (41)
• François Grégoire de DAVE (72), Hannut, 4280, Liège, Belgique
• Elisabeth Hendriks Leemans (20)

• 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.
• 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.
• May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
• August 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
• 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.
• September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.

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