About the day » Sunday August 7, 1791Calender converter

• Abraham van Houten, Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Riemenschneider, Girkhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1839)
• Aalbert Overman, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1791)
• Anne Affra BOEGLIN, Hirsingue (68560, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Anna Maria Raven, Hulsberg,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje van der Paauw, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1791)
• Aleida Grada Heusinkveld, Zelhem,Gemeente Zelhem,Gelderland,Nederland († 1825)
• Albert Pietersz Heiloo, Ilpendam
• albert laufer, groningen
• Anthonij Huibertszn Vonk, Langerak, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1829)

• Arend Jan Mensink, Gelselaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Johan Frederik van Wied-Neuwied (84), Neuwied, Neuwied, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
• Adrianus Aerts (4), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Johann Friedrich Alexander z.Wied (84), unbekannt
• Gerrit Jan Wijers (0), Zutphen
• Jannetje van den Broek (0), Schiedam
• Beatrix Jansen Mater (5), Amersfoort
• Huybrecht Peter Kenis, Loenhout, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Jean Baptiste Dendooven (6), Outgaarden
• Hendrina Derksen

• 1726 » James Bowdoin, American banker and politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts († 1790)
• 1742 » Nathanael Greene, American general († 1786)
• 1751 » Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange († 1820)
• 1779 » Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic († 1859)
• 1844 » Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author († 1911)
• 1860 » Alan Leo, English astrologer and author († 1917)
• 1862 » Henri Le Sidaner, French painter († 1939)
• 1862 » Victoria of Baden († 1931)
• 1867 » Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator († 1956)
• 1868 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician († 1931)

• 1787 » Francis Blackburne, English Anglican churchman and activist (b. 1705)
• 1817 » Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
• 1834 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
• 1848 » Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)

• 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.
• August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
• August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
• August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
• September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.

The temperature on August 7, 1791 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.