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• Boudewijn Goedegebuure, Sint Annaland († 1853)
• Abram Blenk, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Auguste Joseph Ansiau, Saint-Ghislain, Hainaut, Belgique († 1848)
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• Catharina Hendrix, Urmond
• Aaltje Helt, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Sibilla Wassen, Brüggen (D)
• Aagje Kwant, Nieuwe Niedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1858)
• Alijdis Pouw, Werkhoven, Utrecht, Nederland († 1866)
• Anna Catharina Hodenius, Birkesdorf

• Johannes van Maris (51), Mill
• Alexander Kirkpatrick? (17), Drumcondra, Dublin City, Dublin, Ireland
• Frans Mylemans (70), Lier, België
• Cornelius Boterbergh (70), Erembodegem, Aalst, België
• Anna Theresia Braun (Bryn (33), Oostende, Belgie
• Adrianum van Dam (0), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• James Unknown (49), Laurens, Laurens, South Carolina, United States
• Adriana Voogd (74), Schiedam
• Andreas Gisbert Peter oomen (78)
• Arijaantje Voogd (74), Schiedam

• 1753 » Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian († 1828)
• 1768 » Louis Desaix, French general († 1800)
• 1786 » Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician († 1836)
• 1786 » Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld († 1861)
• 1801 » Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer and feminist († 1865)
• 1828 » Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician († 1897)
• 1840 » Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist († 1922)
• 1845 » Henry Cadwalader Chapman, American physician and naturalist († 1909)
• 1849 » William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland († 1919)
• 1863 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer († 1924)

• 1723 » Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668)
• 1768 » Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703)
• 1785 » Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
• 1786 » Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712)
• 1809 » Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (b. 1728)
• 1814 » John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (b. 1732)
• 1834 » Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (b. 1802)
• 1838 » Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)
• 1850 » José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778)
• 1861 » Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to Texas (b. 1806)

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. John
16. Leendert

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.
• March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
• June 21 » King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
• July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
• August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
• September 13 » King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.

The temperature on August 17, 1791 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.