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• Anna van Wijngaarden, Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Ely, West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts († 1881)
• Adriana Visser, De Werken en Sleeuwijk
• Amalia Josephs Chits-Leeuwarden, Amsterdam
• (Wilberink) Wilbrink , Catharine, Delden
• Aaltjen Hendriks, De Wijk
• Anna Maria Margaretha Moes, Altenharen, Haren
• Anna Maria BANNING, Alkmaar
• Anna Ariesd Van WIJNGAARDEN, Strijen († 1793)
• Aaltje Thomasdr. van der Meer, Nieuwkoop

• Fop Janse Smit (85), Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Speet (53), Til Moyland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Aart Plomp, Woerden,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Floor Vink (73), Ameide, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Foppe Janse Smit (85), Alblasserdam
• Barbara DE Gols, Moorsel
• Elizabeth Peeck
• Cornelia Embrechts (75), Zundert, 4443, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antoine Fran√ßois Batteur (58)
• Jan Franken van Dorp (78), Vlaardinger-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1765 » Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece († 1848)
• 1766 » William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist († 1828)
• 1768 » Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician († 1813)
• 1775 » Daniel O'Connell, Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin († 1847)
• 1809 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet († 1892)
• 1826 » Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author († 1915)
• 1835 » Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist († 1900)
• 1844 » Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1900)
• 1844 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer († 1896)
• 1846 » Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant († 1888)

• 1694 » Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1612)
• 1695 » François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (b. 1625)
• 1753 » Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Estonian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1711)
• 1757 » Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (b. 1673)
• 1794 » Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
• 1815 » James A. Bayard, American lawyer and politician (b. 1767)
• 1828 » Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1785)
• 1850 » Edward Walsh, Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)
• 1866 » John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
• 1881 » James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)

• 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)
• March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
• March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
• May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
• August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
• August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
• September 30 » France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly

The temperature on August 6, 1791 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken.