About the day » Tuesday August 23, 1791Calender converter

• Abel Klaassens Kuizenga, Baflo († 1866)
• Albert ten Brummelaar, Diepenheim,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Catharina Jorisse van der Haak, Poeldijk
• Abel Klasens Kuizinga, Baflo
• Beertjen Assen, Doornspijk, Nederland († 1862)
• Aaldrik Jans Witting, Nieuweschans, Groningen, Nederland († 1853)
• Anna Catharina Verhaegen, Beigem (Vlaams-Brabant, België) († 1826)
• Beertje Jans Assen, Doornspijk († 1862)
• Anna Cornelia Van der Pluijm, Dussen
• Beerent Batteszn (de Roos), Termunten († 1854)

• Jeanne de Saint-Rémy (35), London
• Arie Kleijweg (32), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Doodgeboren kind van Roessel (0), Haaren
• Berndt Hermann Kippenbrock (31)
• Anne Marie ZENNER (26), Wolfersdorf (68210, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Catharina STOCKMANS (44), Pamel
• Janna Pieterse Wisse (56), Crommenhoeke
• Elisabeth van Dortmond (71), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Egbert Eijmberts van Tongeren (4)
• Dorothea Henriette Forcke (63), Lemförde,,Lower Saxony,Germany

• 1741 » Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, French admiral and explorer († 1788)
• 1754 » Louis XVI of France († 1793)
• 1769 » Georges Cuvier, French biologist and academic († 1832)
• 1783 » William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge († 1852)
• 1785 » Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander († 1819)
• 1805 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian judge and politician († 1893)
• 1814 » James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop († 1877)
• 1829 » Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian († 1920)
• 1843 » William Southam, Canadian publisher († 1932)
• 1846 » Alexander Milne Calder, Scottish-American sculptor († 1923)

• 1706 » Edward Nott, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
• 1806 » Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736)
• 1813 » Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766)
• 1819 » Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (b. 1785)
• 1831 » August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
• 1831 » Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1759)
• 1853 » Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (b. 1806)
• 1867 » Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet and author (b. 1796)
• 1892 » Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)

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)
• June 21 » King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
• August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
• September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
• 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.
• December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
• December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

The temperature on August 23, 1791 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht.